28 Weeks Later
2007
***
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Idris Elba, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots
28 weeks after the outbreak of the Rage Virus, a cowardly man who left his wife to die is reunited with his kids in London, which is now free of infection and occupied by the U.S. troops. When the virus predictably breaks out again, all of the above seems irrelevant as the film becomes a formulaic survival story. A small group of people, which includes those kids, try to evade the infected attackers and the soldiers, who are now authorised to shoot at everyone. In spite of some scary, powerful, and thought-provoking moments, Fresnadillo's incredibly gory and frantically edited horror film is a typical sequel, which pretty much retells the story of 28 Days Later and then leaves the ending open for more.
