The virus is back...

Rating: 6/10 (1 March 2010)

This shocking sequel to Danny Boyle's 2002 box-office smash is a devastating assault on the senses from start to finish. The downbeat tone of the original is retained as we see Don (Robert Carlyle) escape from the infected "rage-virus" victims by going to London's Isle Of Dogs, where all survivors are kept safe in quarantine. Upon arrival, he meets his two children and later his wife - who he had previously presumed dead. She, however, is infected and soon infects her husband as well - leading to a frenzied outbreak at the Isle. The fast-paced gritty action has a discomforting realism - echoing Romero's "The Crazies" - which places the film amongst the best of it's kind.