In a nutshell I enjoyed the film(I'm a big zombie fan) but it seemed to suffer the same "set-up for the next film flavor" that the second Pirates of the Caribean did. But lets face it its a zombie film so you cant have Oscar winning expectations. For a zombie film I'd give it 3 stars since it kept out a lot of the junk that usually upsets me in zombie films. But in a general movie comparision I'd have to agree with 2 stars.

28 Days Later was no masterpiece of cinema. Day of the Tryphids with not much else to say. 28 Weeks Later, had ample opportunity to place the viral disaster in a very modern day context. However the director/producers/scriptwriters seem to have opted for the simple and unchallenging in order to get bums on seats and DVD sales at Christmas roaring. Ludicrous plot holes with entertaining and realised moments at the beginning and at the end (underground). However it's main failing is a very underdeveloped plotline. A more suitable film would've been to continue Robert Carlyle?s journey and possible redemption from the moment he abandoned his wife to his re-union with his children. It seems as though landmarks and scenery are the only creative messages that this film can deliver to the British Audience and Industry. Get the locations, it worked for the first film, so it must work for the second. Short-sightedness in the story details lead to a fumbling end with no hint of morality and a cynical slapping of human affection. With the detail and attention given to setting instead the highly talented actors (all of them), plod tragically to one of the most predictable ends in horror movie history. The next instalment will be 28 Months later and it will be a thoroughly routine affair in which the world will finally succumb due to some very misconceived decisions by humans. I watched the first ten minutes, wholeheartedly entertained and challenged with allsorts of moral and theoretical questions in my mind. Then as Carlyle?s character stole away from his world of regret, then finding himself 28 weeks into the future, I had to ask myself, if the UK had been destroyed by the most tragic and ruthless viral infection known to mankind, Would I be queuing up to return, and if I was, I would probably feel it necessary to suggest that re-colonization should start in an area much more containable...not the carcass of one of the biggest cities in the world which would be a tactical nightmare to control if an outbreak were to happen. This huge Grand Canyon of a plot hole for me, indicated at fifteen minutes, that at the end, mankind would tear itself apart.

I read a lot of good reviews for 28 Weeks Later, so I went into the movie expecting something special. I thought the first half was pretty gripping, and it seemed like it was leading up to something, but the second half of the film lags with just more of the same from the first film. It also seemed to run out of new ideas. I thought the central plot of the movie was stolen from George Romero's "Land of the Dead" (2005), where the survivors are holed up in a downtown compound. Except there, the perimeter was heavily fortified and here there isn't any fortifications. Also, every major plot point here is difficult to believe. I don't believe a civilian would be given access to military areas. Kids are able to easily slip out of the "protected" compound. And one of the zombies is able to follow them even after they've been driving through the streets of London at 40 miles per hour. The last half of the film is simply a set-up for the next projected film in the series: "28 Months Later." All in all, this is just barely a cut above the average zombie picture. I had expected more with all the positive reviews.