In the country nearby London, Don, his wife Alice and a few survivors live hidden in a farmhouse. When infected people break in the house, Dan panics and does not help his wife to escape, running away and leaving Alice trapped inside the room. Twenty eight weeks after the outbreak that annihilated the population of Great Britain, London is considered safe and the British survivors return under the coordination of the American Army, that keeps the city under permanent surveillance. The teenager Tammy and her younger brother Andy travel back from Spain to live with their father Don in London. They miss their mother and decide to escape to their old house to retrieve pictures and some other personal belongings. However, they find Alice surprisingly alive and the Army brings her to the base. After some blood test, the biologist Scarlet discovers that Alice is a carrier of the lethal virus and somehow has immunity to it. Meanwhile, Don sneaks through the facility to say how sorry he is to Alice, who forgives him. When he kisses her, he is immediately contaminated, spreading a new epidemic.
Genre(s): Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: 7.1/10 (60,933 votes)
Release Date: 6 May 2007
Country: UK, Spain
Languages: English
Company: Fox Atomic
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
MPAA: Rated R for strong violence and gore, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Director(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Producer(s):
Bernard Bellew – co-producer
Danny Boyle – executive producer
Alex Garland – executive producer
Enrique López Lavigne – producer (as Enrique López-Lavigne)
Andrew Macdonald – producer
Allon Reich – producer
Writer(s):
Rowan Joffe – (screenplay) &
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo – (screenplay) &
Enrique López Lavigne – (screenplay) (as E.L. Lavigne) &
Jesús Olmo – (screenplay) (as Jesus Olmo)
Cast:
Robert Carlyle – Don
Catherine McCormack – Alice
Rose Byrne – Scarlet
Jeremy Renner – Doyle
Harold Perrineau – Flynn
Idris Elba – Stone
Imogen Poots – Tammy
Mackintosh Muggleton – Andy
Amanda Walker – Sally
Shahid Ahmed – Jacob
Music: John Murphy
Tagline: It All Begins Again
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From the first time i saw 28 days later i was so hoping to see thisfilm when it was completed. For this reason was one of two things.First Robert Carlyle, this guy in on my top list of favorite actors.His no nonsense approaches to his characters is always flawless whatever he plays. I first saw Robert in a good film called formula 51, akind of knock off guy who works for the local mafia in Liverpool.Seeing his abilities when acting reminds me of how players in filmsshould act, with no barriers in the way. The second reason i wanted tosee this film was because of the premise this story holds. Theaftermath of the infection, where survivors are transported back toBritain where their lives can re-establish. But in this friendly chaosa lone survivor who was bitten became an infected, but with a immunityto its shortcomings. The survivors husband Robert Carlyle, makes asmall reunion, and not knowing she is infected, kisses her withaffection. And in that kiss becomes the nightmare all over again bybecoming the rage virus, spreading through the citizens one by oneuntil the army has no choice but to eliminate everybody, infected ornot. I am really hoping again that another film to this successfulgenre can be made to offer a more broadened area of infectees to roamaround, such as France and then the United states where i think allpeople should see Americans run around like madmen.
A follow-up to the horror movie that reinvigorated the zombie genrewithout having any zombies in it directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, aman previously known for a very good movie in which blindfolded peoplerun through woods? Sounds like a disaster and, indeed, that was my wayof thinking when I first heard about this sequel. Then I saw thetrailer and things started to look up. Then I saw the film. And I wasimpressed.
Getting straight into the action, we join Robert Carlyle and CatherineMcCormack (husband and wife in the movie) as they hide out with othersin a remote farmhouse. When one little boy arrives at the door it's notlong before a crowd of the infected are also bursting to get insideand, in a realistic moment of devastating cowardice, I will just saythat Carlyle manages to escape while others are not so lucky. A briefand efficient time-line gives us a rundown on the events and thingsbegin to settle back to something like normality with one section ofLondon declared completely secure and being kept under Americanmilitary control. Carlyle is glad to be reunited with his children butit's not long before they cause one big situation FUBAR and the wholearea is locked down and placed on "Code Red". Thankfully, one doctorand one soldier agree to protect and shepherd the children to safety,because one of them may very well hold the cure to a vaccinationagainst the disease, but safety is a hell of a long way away. And withboth the infected and the military out to stop them they may not makeit out alive.
This sequel does everything it should, and a bit more. The action isstepped up a notch, the gore flows liberally and certain themes fromthe original are added to while some others are discarded. While takingplace in a smaller area it actually has a grander feel and some majorhigh-impact scenes reinforce this. Okay, the acting isn't quite as goodhere as it is in the original (even Carlyle disappoints in the secondhalf of the movie) but it's nothing to make you cringe and, once again,for a horror movie it's actually a lot better than anything we fans areused to.
Hats off to Fresnadillo, who took an idea that seemed foolhardy andmanaged to blend the style of the original into a movie all his own.With plenty of tense moments and some new and inventive death scenes,this is a worthy successor to a fantastic horror movie.
See this if you like: 28 Days Later, "Dead Set", Dawn Of The Dead(remake).
28 Weeks Later is the very promising and very terrific sequel to 28Days Later. It starts off strong, and the film never lets go. It hasgreat production values. The direction by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo isreally amazing. He directs with a fast-paced tone. The cinematographyis spectacular, and the film has a sort of futuristic look to it. Ithas the post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The writing is very strong. Thecharacters are very well developed, so we care about them. Theperformances by everyone in the cast are top notch. The action isriveting, since this film is more of an action film than 28 Days Later.I also thought this was a very thought-provoking film. The way peoplehave to kill each other because there is no other way is a truly deadlythought. It reminded me of the theme of The Mist, another great 2007horror film. Overall, everything that made 28 Days Later work ispresent here as well. 28 Weeks Later might even be better than theoriginal. I very much appreciate horror films like this, and am veryglad they can still be made. Terrific film-making!
I found 28 Days Later very refreshing indeed in the horror genre andnot a bad story line believable enough where well meaning people breakinto a lab and let go "infected" animals and all havoc wreaks loose.I've watched it twice and will watch it again anytime. Hard to describethen my feelings of disgust when I seen this follow up movie 28 WeeksLater no plot, all over the shop and glaring mistakes in dialog which Iwould normally not even be looking out for. If I ever go into a shopand decide to buy 28 Days Later and have to buy both movies in a boxedset or nothing I would return home and bin 28 Weeks Later without evenlooking at it again. Has to be the worst movie sequel in my book I'veever seen for what its worth.
Gripping and intense, your mileage might vary but I think I preferredthis one to the original which was already pretty great. As a matter offact, 28 weeks could theoretically be seen first since it's 2 differentstories with different characters. The camera work is nervous and boldyet keeps similar aesthetics to 28 days even though it's made by adifferent director. The storyline was very suspenseful filled withpowerful moments and difficult moral decisions.It's also quitethought-provoking regarding the American military. Some might think,even me at first, that some plot elements are illogical or toocoincidental but when you think about it, you realize that most of itcan be explained. Just keep in mind that the infection might haveevolved.
This was a promising film with a tragic flaw that ruined it for me. Oneof the movie's central conceits is so dumb it makes suspension ofdisbelief impossible. I don't mean zombie-ism, of which I am a huge fan(I know, how can I have a problem with other dumb central conceits andnot the existence of zombies, but still…). Here's the problem –spoiler alert! The central authority's response to a potential newoutbreak of the plague, spread by personal contact, is to force peopleto leave their secure, locked apartments and gather in a giant roomwith multiple access points. Not even the government is that stupid.Without that, you have no new outbreak and no movie.