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28 Weeks Later (2007)
Topic Started: Apr 12 2013, 06:22 AM (262 Views)
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Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.


I went into this with SUPER high expectations since by this point I was a diehard fan of the first film. Unfortunately, this film didn't quite meet them but wow, did it come close. THe deaths were well staged, brutal and realistic. The jump scares were PERFECTLY timed usually and some sequences were totally stunning (the snipers, the helicopters, WOAH). The characters were lively, energetic and real. They weren't cardboard cut outs or boys next door. THe family felt like a family, the soldiers felt like soldiers, and so on. I loved most of the people in this. The shooting style and the coloration = Gorgeous. The shot at the stadium toward the end is breathtaking and...Eiffel Tower. OhMyDamn, why the fuck didn't we get a third film set in Paris or something?! URGH! Would've been divine. Who knows? Maybe we'll still get one someday<3. 7.5/10 for me.
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Excellent sequel. It was nice to see a big scale version of what the world could look like after an outbreak seems to have been squashed. And I adore Rose Byrne so there's that too.
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Danny Boyle’s smash hit in 2002 was just dying for a sequel, and talk of one started almost immediately. A few ideas floated around, including utilizing the cast of the first film in 29 Days Later, but as often happens when a film is successful, it took five years for the sequel to hit theatres. Instead of using Cillian Murphy and the rest of the survivors from 28 Days, Boyle decided to go with a new cast in 28 Weeks Later. He did manage to put together a pretty impressive cast with Jeremy Renner and Robert Carlyle. Boyle would not be directing the sequel either, although he was a producer and very involved in the preproduction decision making. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a rather unknown director, was chosen to take the helm.

The movie starts off right in the middle of the Rage outbreak, as we meet Don, Alice and handful of other survivors that are hiding in a cottage, trying to live some semblance of life. Their dinner is interrupted but a frantic young boy banging on the door for help. Alice insists they let him in, even though Don doesn’t think it is wise. They let the boy in, who says he is being chased by the infected. Seconds later, they come crashing through the door, walls, and boarded up windows. The only one to escape is Don, who leaves his wife to save his own ass. At this point, I wasn’t a big fan of Don’s. Robert Carlyle’s portrayal of Don was great though.

We fast forward to 28 weeks later, and the virus is under control as the infected have all starved to death. A NATO/US force is clearing London little by little and refugees are starting to repopulate the area. We quickly find out that Don has survived and his children will soon be joining him back in London. The kids miss their mother and decide to go outside the safe zone to visit their old house to get some things, which is a brilliant idea. At the house they gather some pictures and things from their past life and make a shocking discovery. Their mother is alive and hiding in the house. The military soon shows up and brings the children and Mother back to the safe zone, where we find out that Alice actually has the virus but is not affected by it.

This is bad because Don decides to slip past security to see his wife, resulting in a long drawn out kiss, which obviously leads to Don contracting Rage, killing his wife and setting off another epidemic. Shit gets fast and furious here, as the infected are multiplying exponentially and the military is losing ground in a hurry. It’s now Jeremy Renner’s time to shine, as he is a sniper who ignores his orders to kill everyone and sets out to save the kids and the Chief Medical Officer, who believes that the kids may hold the key to the cure with their DNA.

After racing around London, avoiding infected, the military and raining firebombs from the Air Force, the kids get picked up by Renner’s buddy in a helicopter, taking them to safety in France. Of course the end of the movie shows infected racing around Paris 28 days later…

I really didn’t like this one much the first time around, but this was my second viewing and it was better than I remembered. It is actually a pretty decent flick, but has a different feel than the first, largely because of the military presence (machine guns, helicopters and air strikes). This is worth checking out, and worth revisiting if it has been awhile since watching it.
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Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.


I went into this with SUPER high expectations since by this point I was a diehard fan of the first film. Unfortunately, this film didn't quite meet them but wow, did it come close. THe deaths were well staged, brutal and realistic. The jump scares were PERFECTLY timed usually and some sequences were totally stunning (the snipers, the helicopters, WOAH). The characters were lively, energetic and real. They weren't cardboard cut outs or boys next door. THe family felt like a family, the soldiers felt like soldiers, and so on. I loved most of the people in this. The shooting style and the coloration = Gorgeous. The shot at the stadium toward the end is breathtaking and...Eiffel Tower. OhMyDamn, why the fuck didn't we get a third film set in Paris or something?! URGH! Would've been divine. Who knows? Maybe we'll still get one someday<3. 7.5/10 for me.
I really liked this movie - as a sequel, I felt it lived up to its predecessor (is that the right word?) I thought Robert Carlyle did a great job as Don.
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I still need to see the original again. Been almost 8 or 9 years since I have
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Have you seen this one yet Keon?
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Don't remember much of this.
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This was sold out when I saw it the first time, literally had to leave some friends that arrived later than the rest of us outside and meet them at the bar later and just tell them how good it was. I'm always early to the cinema or pre-book now.
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Would loved to have seen this at the cinema, but I had no idea it was showing.
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Haven't seen this, but I'd like to.
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While I find the first film to be a masterpiece and this a great action film, this is still a fucking AMAZING and entertaining thrill ride.

The use of the original score was awesome and thrilling, and this movie has awesome, awesome, AWESOME cinematography.
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I prefer this over 28 Days Later.

I couldn't really get behind any of the characters in the first movie, and I just felt that the ones introduced here were just far more compelling. And when some of these characters died, I actually felt more sad/moved about it than the first movie.
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Don't worry. I know a LOT of people who share your opinion on this being better than Days. :P It's just a very different type of film, and I honestly DO have trouble comparing the two.
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Though it’s better than the original, this one here doesn't have a whole lot really about it that works. One of the biggest problems is the fact that the film is just way too dull, as the middle section where they're going through the motions of re-adjusting to daily life is one of the longest, dullest sections in the film, coming complete with no action whatsoever amongst a general sea of nothing going on. The endless scenes of them going through the different sections of the city, from the abandoned homes to the different ways of fun, allow for plenty of scenes that are just down-right deadly dull. These have no interest at all in them, and are just thrown in for no absolute reason at all. There's also the film's maddening ability to get way too theatrical and artistic for no purpose, where this is loaded with scenes where it's just a close-up of the talker's mouths or of their eyes, and scenes throughout the film are presented by doing this, and it's distracting, unnecessary and just plain annoying. It has no bearing on anything other than an attempt to make it feel more artistic than it should. That also goes for the shaking camera tactics that it loves to explore as there's a never-ending succession of scenes that are readily destroyed by the shaking camera making it impossible to see what's happening. That this occurs during most of the action scenes is even worse, allowing them to be ruined by the shaking camera-tactic. That is the film's biggest issue here, that it rarely gets to do anything since it's mostly cut off by the tactic. The last flaw in here is the running zombies angle. This doesn't work at all, they're not scary, and even though it tries to get around them by calling them infected, they're still zombies and they don't work here. Even among these flaws, there’s some good parts here including the fact that there’s a great bit more action here than expected. The opening assault on the family in their home following the retrieval of the kid makes for a frantic occurrence as the ultra-fast pace and brutal kills leads to a couple thrilling moments. The outbreak sequence in the control center is top-notch, bringing together three fantastic scenes in the questioning lab that starts the infection, the creepy scene in the containment area with the darkness hiding the gobbling and attacking of the victims, and finally the full-on fun of the attack on the populace in the streets. In a sea of chaos, they target, trap, attack, kill and get killed by the others around them in a flurry of activity that is incredibly exciting and is one of the best scenes in the film. The last thing in here that works is the ending half, which includes the race to get to the safe spot in the city through the previous methods used to contain the creatures, is visually fun, exciting and a little creepy at times. Together with the violence which isn't too terrible, these are all the film has to offer.
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I disagree that this film is better than the original, but I also disagree that it's dull. :p
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Well, the original for me is about 4.75/10, while this to me is about 5/10 so it's a slight tick up over it even though it's not a great feat either way with that kind of rating. Still, those scenes of them in the military compound showing the kids around, hearing about the family's past tragedy and the kids running around the city out into the countryside are just endless and extremely boring. We don't even get any zombie attacks until
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, and while that's forty minutes of straight-up gut-spilling carnage after the opening that's all we see of them so I found the pace so bland and boring there was very little interesting facets to it.
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