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Production Year: 2007 - Horror - Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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Danny Boyle's 2003 hit 28 DAYS LATER receives the sequel treatment in 28 WEEKS LATER. Few elements from the first film remain--actor Cillian Murphy doesn't return, and Boyle and...
more...screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland take producer credits this time out. In their places step director/co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (INTACTO) and actor Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING), who bring the original story to its next logical step. The zombies (again referred to as ‘the infected’) from the first film have died out and England is ready for repopulation. The American military are slowly bringing British citizens back to London, where a heavily guarded community is picking up the pieces and trying to return to normal life. Carlyle plays Don, a man who has lost his wife but is reunited with his children, Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and Tammy (Imogen Poots), near the start of Fresnadillo's film. The two kids soon escape from the heavily guarded community, go off searching for their childhood home, and discover that mum might not be quite as dead as they originally thought. Chaos follows, with the sadistic military and the forlorn survivors battling both each other and ‘the infected.’
Fresnadillo apes much of Boyle's style from the original film, shooting in rapidly edited sequences that cause plenty of blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. A pounding soundtrack helps enliven the scenes with ‘the infected’, and an abundance of swooping aerial shots highlight the desolate London landscape. A few minor sub-plots emerge, Fresnadillo offers sly commentary on the military's trigger-happy tendencies, and the film ends up somewhere in between zombie fare such as George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD and dystopian visions of the future such as Alfonso Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN.





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A review by dommatt on 28 Weeks Later DVD
May 13th, 2008


Author's product rating:   28 Weeks Later DVD - rated by dommatt

Did you enjoy it? Loved it 
Story Good 
Characters / Performances Outstanding 
Special Effects Good 
How does it compare to similar films? Good 

Advantages: great plot great cast
Disadvantages: bit repetitive nd ecessive gore if you dont like that stuff

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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it is a very well collected film with a strong cast well acted the special effets are outstanding and just adds to the strong plot created in the first movie. although is not for the faint hearted due to strong viloence. the setting is within the cityof london after te firt film and the americans are slowly trying to repopulate untill and infected enters the city and all hell breaks loose. the main characters re two children one of which has a strange genetic anomoly and he must be saved at all costs. the film shows a zombie movie how it was born to be shown powerful wiht lots of zombies being napalmed and shot. so if you love vilonce and gore you WILL love this 
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How does it compare to others by the same director? Good 
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