28 Weeks Later

I think I’m gonna go out and say this deserves multiple awards for best performance and just the plain horror of zombies although the kind of zombies I know do not run nor climb or swim these are Gen Z type zombies absolutely not

did like it, and for me better than the first one. yes, some things could be better. still i like the action in it and the story

Really good sequel to an excellent first movie. I liked it a lot and waiting for years now for 28 months later :)

"28 weeks", The folow up movie to 28 days later. Follows up on survivor Don (robert Carlyle) and his kids.
First of all it always a treat to see Carlyle on screen. The man knows how to bring a Character to life. And in a zombie apocalypse movie that can be harder then it seems. The downside however that because the plotline and outline of the movie his role diminishes. The movie was written and directed by Jaun Carloz Fresnadillo, and of course Danny Boyle (Sunrise).

The story is supposedly set in the London suburbs Area, wher chaos ensues when another Outbreak of the Rage virus starts
Scene's wher also filmed in cardiff (Standing in for london).

The movie itself is a Rollercoaster when the action starts. With great creature effects, nice scenery and setting,
And also manages to capture some claustrophobic effects when cornered by the Living dead.

The music was scored by john murphy and he definetly does a great job at capturing the essence of the movies in his score. As an avid collector of soundtracks i found this score to be treat :-)

One final note however. I heard friends of mine complain about this not being a zombie movie, bevause of the rage Virus
If You look however t the chopper grasfield scene, you can see several decapitated zombies trying to go after the survivors. I know this clashes wit other aspects in this movie. But in my opinion this flick definetly belongs to the zombie realm

One of the few cases where the sequel is as good, if not better than the original. Now I patiently wait to complete the trilogy with 28 Months Later (come on Danny, hurry up).

As with it's predecessor, 28 Weeks Later has generally not aged badly over the last 16 years. I think this film is in some ways not as good as 28 Days Later, but in other ways improves upon it. Robert Carlyle is always a joy to watch, as he's a fantastic actor. **The Infected are not zombies, as they're still living, not undead (see https://28dayslater.fandom.com/wiki/The_Infected for more details)** but they are as psychotically brutal and savage, fast and relentless as before, and the pacing of the film is good enough to hold interest, and keep you hooked, throughout. There a a few very convenient plot holes that are clearly there to drive the plot but don't make any logical sense (a bit like the Infected hoards) such as:[spoiler]
1) How were Don's two children able to escape so easily, and not stopped more quickly? Surely there would have been more than just the one sniper watching the entrance from a rooftop? Guards should have been positioned all around the facility, both inside and out, and certainly all around the perimeter of the "safe zone".
2) Yes, she was strapped down in a secure facility, but why was Don's wife ever left completely unguarded? They'd ascertained that she could be "the saviour of the human race" because of her not being affected by the virus (part from the eye thing) despite being infected by it? As "humanity's only hope" security should have been over-the-top, not non-existent.
3) Why the hell did Don, knowing full-well that she was infected, and that bodily fluid exchange would definitely lead to infection, give her a full-on, open-mouthed kiss? OK, he was full of remorse for abandoning her to die (or so he'd thought), but she'd told him that she still loved him - possibly this was a calculated revenge plan, developed over the six months she was surviving in their home, but either way, to kiss her like that was stupid and suicidal. It also made him directly responsible for every single person that died as a result of him getting infected.
4) Why was he so obsessed with killing his children? The whole premise of the Rage Virus is that it inhibited all logic and reason, created an uncontrollable rage to attack anyone that moved, so why did he have this single-minded focus on killing his children? He only seemed to kill anyone else when they got in the way, not just because they were there, like all of the other Infected.[/spoiler]

It is for these reasons (and the first four below) that I have rated the film one mark lower than 28DL (8 instead of 9), but please don't let these points stop you from watching a very good film.

[spoiler]In the bigger picture, the implication seemed to be that the American military relied purely on remote observation, in the shortest possible time (28 weeks/7 months) from doomsday - the 28th day after the UK mainland officially fell to the onslaught of the Infected - to make the **assumptions** that:
1) the virus wasn't transmittable across species **despite the fact that it had been transmitted to humans from chimpanzees in a research lab**.
2) the Infected were finally all dead from starvation/dehydration so, with no active hosts or ways to transmit, the virus just fizzled out and disappeared.
3) it was safe for the military to start cleaning up "The Isle of Dogs" - a suburb of London surrounded on three sides by the River Thames, so only one way in, one way out, by land. But one way was enough…
4) that said clean-up had been thorough enough to render the above a 100% "safe zone"[/spoiler].

This infection - actually the 'Rage Virus' - was a highly contagious virus with a 20-second gestation period, that killed off the majority of the UK's population (at the time this was set) of 57.67 million people. There were some mass evacuations of uninfected, so even if you halved the above number, that would make approx. 28 million infected people rampaging across the UK. Bearing this in mind, the speed and apparent carelessness of the NATO clean-up forces was shockingly incompetent and foolhardy, especially when military forces were repeatedly overwhelmed during the original outbreak. All it would take - as was demonstrated in the film - is one person to become infected, then successfully infect another, for another "extinction-level event" to occur. Therefore, in my (completely non-militarily-trained) mind, any post-outbreak cleanup operation would, **as an absolute necessity** need to do the following:

1) Clean-up teams must **always** be at least three personnel. Nobody should ever enter any building on their own or be out of direct earshot (or if practical, even eyesight) of at least one of their team members.
2) Firstly, clear and thoroughly disinfect the entire of the Isle of Wight. Then quarantine facilities could be set up there to process any survivors, to ensure that they are definitely not infected, of even carriers, of the Rage Virus. This way, any unplanned outbreaks could be easily contained and eliminated without risking mainland infection.
3) Starting from Portsmouth (as there is already transport in place to and from the IoW) thoroughly search through literally every single room of every single building of any kind, and all trees, caves, vehicles, or anywhere else where survivors - or the Infected, either alive or dead - could be lurking, all the way up the entire UK mainland, including any other 'satellite' islands such as The Shetland Islands. I'm assuming that the virus never reached the Irish mainland - if it did, then that would need to be processed in the same fashion. Drag the dead into the street and incinerate them. Survivors need transporting to the quarantine facilities for processing.
4) Extremely strict, zero-tolerance, measures would have to be enforced for all military personnel that nothing is stolen from any property entered, for any reason, under threat of court-martial/imprisonment, and should be considered to be grave-robbing.
5) As part of the building clean-up, all food and drink items, clothing, bedding, furniture, etc would need to be dragged out and destroyed, and thorough cleaning/disinfection from ceiling to floor would be required (just like actually happened post-Covid-19) to ensure that no residue from bodily fluids (e.g. saliva from sneezing) remained on any surfaces that could potentially still be harbouring the virus.
6) Specialists could then be brought in, under military guard/protection, to truly ascertain that no animals, particularly carnivorous ones - rats, crows, dogs, etc - are carrying the virus, even if they're not affected by it, as they could potentially retransmit back to humans. Further specialists would be required to check reservoirs and other water sources/treatment centres, sewage treatment centres, etc.
7) As each building, then each street, then each village, town, and city were fully sanitised, they would be sealed off and abandoned but under military guard, until the entire operation was complete, nationwide.
8) All military personnel involved with on-the-ground clearance, and all the aforementioned specialists would need to be checked at the end of each day to ensure compliance with the above rules, and also be provided with regular medical checks to ensure that they are not unknowingly harbouring the virus.
9) People with specific skills (ideally UK survivors) would need to be brought in first to bring the nation's infrastructure back online - power, utilities, water processing, food production, medical facilities, waste processing, education and training centres, at the very least. This would probably need doing one town/city at a time.
10) I predict that all of the above would take at least five years, maybe ten, depending on the manpower. During this time, the European Parliament, any survivors of the UK governments and other world powers would need to formulate a strategy for how to process all the empty houses, personal property (e.g. photos, etc), business sites and other public buildings, as well as an effective way to restart the UK economy.

Only once all of the above is complete could the UK ever be truly considered to be "safe and clear of the virus, and ready for mass repopulation by displaced UK citizens". This repopulation would itself be a long, slow, complex process requiring careful management. Perhaps the final chapter of this story could be called "28 Years Later" because that's probably a more realistic estimate of the timescale needed for the UK to be more or less "back to normal". I doubt that such a film would hold the same level of interest to viewers though.

people may more like it the first movie.i found the the special effects on this seem improved than before.been waiting to the next.

This movie is great, not sure why people are hard on it. It's a different vibe than the first one but it still has some unique elements and is soundly written.

It is very entertaining. Maybe not as raw as the first one. This doesn't show how humans can be worse than zombies. It focuses on the persecution. It has more budget for special effects. The music is very good. I liked it.