Post by Todd Tjersland on May 12, 2007 10:00:53 GMT -8
This was a worthy sequel with some scary zombie action and gore. The things I didn't like about 28 Weeks Later were casting two children as leads (especially the little boy), the ridiculously lax security in place that allowed the infection to ever get loose, and the Iraq War allegory which felt heavy-handed and forced. I like Robert Carlyle, but having him as some kind of uber-Infected "boogeyman" stalking his kids throughout the last half of the movie was a bit on the lame side.
The film starts off with a bang but quickly bogs down in boring family reunification and reconstruction issues that left me restless for more zombie action. The difference between the original and the sequel is that there was a constant threat of the Infected before, but in the sequel, there is no sense of danger once the virus is supposedly wiped out. The film drags as a result until the threat of the Infected is reintroduced. From there, it's pretty much non-stop action, fun and scares.
The film starts off with a bang but quickly bogs down in boring family reunification and reconstruction issues that left me restless for more zombie action. The difference between the original and the sequel is that there was a constant threat of the Infected before, but in the sequel, there is no sense of danger once the virus is supposedly wiped out. The film drags as a result until the threat of the Infected is reintroduced. From there, it's pretty much non-stop action, fun and scares.