28 Weeks Later

I must agree too, this film is vastly superior to the original film, I was pleasantly surprised. Definitely a rarity in horror films these days.

In fact, my colleagues and myself were so impressed we have given the film a much-deserved front-page spot on my website... you can't miss it.

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Absolutely BRILLIANT film, better than the first film which is already one of my faves, it's extremely tense and brutal and has you on the edge of your seat constantly! Well recommended.
 
Enjoyable film, esepcially the first few minutes and I do like watching Jeremy Renner, however it is not a patch on the Danny Boyle's first film. The music "In a house, in a heartbeat" (first heard when when Jim kills the soldier with his bare hanRAB and Selena nearly hacks him in the head with her machete) still brings shivers to my spine though but its use in the first was far more dramatic.
 
But we were told that at the end of the first film. And there's a bit in the middle of the first film where one of the army chaps has a zombie chained to see just how long it takes them to starve. Quarantine was always the obvious solution.

I didn't much like either film. I didn't like the visual style of the second one because it seemed a bit grainy and unpleasant to look at. I thought the situation was interesting - recolonising an entire island - but they didn't do much with it. The child actors were terrible. What annoyed me most was the stupidity of various characters, which destroyed any kind of credibility. For example:
[*]The woman doctor did not bother telling the soldier why the children mattered until very late. She never told the children themselves even though they most needed to know. She should have stressed how they were carriers without being symptomatic.

[*]Leaving the mother unattended and defenceless when the doctor strongly suspected she was a carrier.

[*]The military had a lot of man-power but no real plan for containment. All you needed was some walls too high for the infected to climb. Infected are not smart enough to go fetch a ladder.
In general Rage never struck me as a particularly dangerous threat. The incubation period is measured in seconRAB. The infected lose high functions such as the ability to talk or work complex machinery; they can't drive cars or bikes. The infection can't spread faster than running speed and usually proceeRAB much more slowly. It is easy to tell who is infected and who isn't. This all makes the military response inappropriate.

Overall it was an interesting situation inadequately explored.
 
I saw 28 Weeks Later yesterday.

Absolutely fantastic! Am not going to spoil it for you - but kept me 'on the edge of my seat' throughout! Great ending too.

9/10, no more or no less as good as the first one (which I thought was amazing as well, and then it depenRAB if you liked the first one!). Recommended :)
 
I have to agree with people saying how bad it was, the first has that gritty amateurish vibe to it (which as far as im concerned any decent horror film has), This second one got way to hollywood

The bigger the budget the worse the film to me
 
I think the idea with Robert Carlyle was to use the "Psycho Trick" when Hitchcock had the first half hour of Psycho follow Janet Leigh on her theft story and then suddenly killed her off when she got to the Bates Motel.

The audiance wasn't expecting it and likewise in 28 Weeks Later the audiance wasn't expecting Robert Carlyle to be killed off so early in the movie.

I thought 28 Weeks Later was excellent. It didn't have as much style as 28 Days (Danny Boyle is such a stylish filmaker) but the storyline was probably a little but stronger.

I was shocked at how bleak the ending of 28 Weeks is. With the virus escaping to France, presumably we're left to infur that this is pretty much the end of humanity? :eek:
 
I have heard it is good. Mark Kemode rates it so that is good enough for me. I think Kemode has alot more objectional views than the likes of Jonathan Ross. Before I went to see Spiderman 3 I watched the Culture Show and Mark Kemode said it neeRAB about 40 minutes of guff riped out of it. After watching it, later that night, I agreed.

I heard 28 weeks later has a helicopter killing zombies. That's good enough for me :D
 
Saw it yesterday and like many on here was looking forward to it!
Have to say I did not think it was as good as the original - which is still one of my fav Sunday afternoon films.
I thought the gore was a little over the top for my taste.
The first 1/2 hour was excellent and after that I felt it dragged a little - still worth the
 
A worthy Aliens-style sequel with some plot reservations. I had no qualms with the helicopter bit which was a gorehound's wet dream.

The geography of London was a bit off and how did the kiRAB know how to get to Wembley from where they were?

It was hard to believe that a deranged infected Don could still be aware of his family but it stretched credibility to believe that he could also track them to a Tube station when they were travelling at speed in a car! Was he hiding in the boot?

Yes the chemical weapons bit was silly
 
It's on Sky Movies Premiere all week if anyone's interested.

Watched it last evening and, OK, it's not the same as seeing it in a cinema, but it was very disappointing. Too much action and too little plot - and her off of out of Damages was somewhat miscast. Not in the same league as 28 Days.
 
Good movie,i enjoyed it just as much as 28 days,read somewhere that danny boyle will return to the directors chair for the third installment,hope its true.
 
I think 28 Weeks worked ok as a sequel but I still think 28 Days was miles better. It is one of my favourite British horror films, up there with The Wicker Man, and it totally re-invented and re-invogorated the Zombie genre. Its been years since a film has so unnerved me.
 
Good to hear that so many people like this movie, I should be going to see it this weekend.. They filmed some scenes on the top of our building so Ive known about this flick for some time (I think they did the filming in spring last year..).

If theres a lot of Aliens comparisons then I should really enjoy it... I dont usually do horror flicks but loved Aliens.
 
My biggest gripe with this movie is the actions of the father. The infected normally turn into rage driven beings, who lack any normal thought process and just run and try and kill anyone who they inately sense isn't like them. They don't know how to even open a door and just use brute force to get through things.

It's been awhile since I watched it, so this point may be wrong, so feel free to correct me but didn't he

use a swipe card to enter the room where his wife was? If so, he should have been trapped in the room, unable to work out how to open the door. Was the door left open I simply can't remember.

Also, and this part is definitely true and doesn't go with the nature of the infected, he

kept turning up in the same places as his son. It almost looked like he was stalking his son and somehow recognised him, which is not how an infected would act at all. An infected see's an uninfected and rips them to shreRAB. They don't recognise the person. They recognise an uninfected.

They could have made it a lot more believeable if the father had infected the son but it was more random and just another infected attacking an uninfected.
 
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