28 Weeks Later
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by Philip Howlett

28 Weeks Later is the sequel to 28 Days Later for anyone who doesn't know. 28 Days is one of my favourite zombie/horror films. The zombies are fast and vicious rather than slow and retarded. People get killed constantly in a bloody and gorey fashion, even the people you suspect might be lead characters get battered. I love the grittiness of it. In a way it's almost believable. I'm probably a bit biased with 28 Days just because I think Danny Boyle (Director) is the man. His latest film Sunshine was brilliant, and Trainspotting is a classic. Unfortunately he has nothing to do with 28 Weeks Later so I expected it to get massacred by some director I've never heard of.

After the mayhem of the first 10 minutes you get the gap between 28 days and 28 weeks filled in. They begin to repopulate England. At this point you think, WHY? I'd nuke the place and leave it for a few hundred years. The reason they did it is so they could make a film about two children who deserve to die. I won't completely kill the film for you, but let me say that in the fictional world of this film, if these children were killed by firing squad at birth, then England would still exist. On the plus side, you get some really good scenes later in the film.
Everyone is locked in a room to keep them away from the infected. Luckily for us viewers we don't have to watch everyone sit down safely in bunker. Instead, the infected get in and it turns in to a blood bath. People are throwing up blood all over each other, people are running and screaming and eating each others neck. Out of 10, this gets a 6.

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