#28 weeks later zombies movie#

#28 weeks later zombies movie#

After the first movie the island of Britain was left ravaged and devastated, but apparently the outbreak was confined to those shores. Rage is transmitted by body fluids and anyone coming into contact with the liquid innards of one of the infected is instantly turned into a crazed, flesh-eating, mindless killer. 28 Weeks Later is means to an end and, unlike the original movie, it has absolutely nothing to say except stay tuned and give us your money.Ģ8 Weeks Later picks up, as the title suggests, 28 weeks later after the release of the Rage virus which started everything in Days. It’s as if Fox executives counted the first movie’s box office receipts and then locked a committee of writers in a room and asked them to come up with a way to stretch this idea out into three movies. The result is a film that feels like it only exists to set up another movie. Running time: 99 minutes.Flash forward three years and Fox Atomic is releasing 28 Weeks Later, a sequel made with a screenplay written by group of different writers, new actors, and helmed by a replacement director. '28 Weeks Later' is rated R for strong horror and action violence (zombie attacks, shootings, explosive and vehicular mayhem), graphic gore, strong sexual language (profanity and crude slang), drug content (hypodermic needles, as well as toxic gas attacks), brief partial female nudity, and a brief sex scene. (The zombie attacks are as frenetic and incomprehensible as Greengrass' car chase scene from 'The Bourne Supremacy,' and a zombie-mowing-down basically duplicates the one from Rodriguez's 'Grindhouse' feature.)Īnd some ludicrous plotting undermines the talented cast. Unfortunately, she may be a carrier for the rage virus.Ĭo-screenwriter/director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo impressed with his inventive 2001 film 'Intacto.' But here he simply apes '28 Days Later' director Danny Boyle, as well as filmmakers Paul Greengrass and Robert Rodriguez. In fact, when the kids do explore some off-limits areas, they discover their mother (Catherine McCormack) is still alive.

Their father, Don (Robert Carlyle), has also managed to emerge somewhat unscathed.

Stone (Idris Elba), are keeping a close eye on the returning Brits.Īmong the survivors are teenager Tammy (Imogen Poots) and her younger brother Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton). However, Britain is now occupied territory. The 'rage' infestation of England is believed to be over, and survivors are being allowed to return to the country. However, this bloody but bloodless sequel comes to life for only one too-brief scene: a night-vision subway sequence toward the end that hints what might have been if the filmmakers had tried to do something a little more original and inventive.Īs promised by the title, the film picks up the story nearly a half-year later. That means there are even more scenes of rage-infected zombies running amok through the countryside, more claustrophobic tunnel chases, more abandoned supermarket sequences. '28 Weeks Later' invests considerable time trying to look and feel exactly like its predecessor, the 2002 science-fiction/horror hit '28 Days Later.' 28 WEEKS LATER - ** - Robert Carlyle, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton rated R (violence, gore, profanity, drugs, brief partial nudity, brief sex, vulgarity).