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28 Weeks Later

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Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.
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While 28 Weeks Later lacks the humanism that made 28 Days Later a classic, it's made up with fantastic atmosphere and punchy direction.

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Lou Lumenick New York Post 08/22/2007
3/4
It's an exciting, well-directed thriller that, while providing more than enough action and gore to satisfy genre fans, also offers the political commentary that has characterized zombie movies. Go to Full Review
Rex Reed Observer 06/20/2007
There isn't much acting here, but there is entirely too much vomiting, and the prose turns laughably purple, too. Go to Full Review
Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper 05/21/2007
Even though I knew the scares were coming, I jumped out of my seat a few times. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Oct 11
[Director] Fresnadillo drives the scenes of zombie mayhem with a jumpy camera and a fractured editing style that adds a sense of panic to the chaos, as if seen through the terror-stricken perspective of an adrenaline-laced bystander. Go to Full Review
Noah Berlatsky Everything is Horrible (Substack) Sep 2
Screenwriter Alex Garland’s willingness to get weirder and more mean-spirited in his follow-up is an unusual and admirable choice. Go to Full Review
Andrew Dignan In Review Online Jun 20
Stranger, more diffuse, and less wedded to conventional notions of realism and regularly occurring jump scares than its predecessors... [although] no film in recent memory has been more deserving of an “incomplete” grade. Go to Full Review
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Sebastian Teody G @sebastianteodyg 5h better than the first one fs See more Katarzyna K @Anderw 2d It was honestly not that bad. It had everything going for it and looking at the whole trilogy. I think it’s pretty great. See more prawnda S 6d this is just not as good as 28 days or either of the 28 years movies. it feels rather generic, there are far too many explosions and the cgi does not fit into the low resolution mobile phone type of camera work the franchise is built on, so it just looks fake, grainy and dithered. this is still watchable though, just filled with issues. the decision to include so many hollywood conventions as well as a prominent us military presence has stripped this entry of the franchise's deeper meaning. for instance, the helicopter blade scene that's featured in some of the trailers: this is gruesome, entertaining, relatively novel, but in a technical and aesthetic sense it feels like it belongs more in a resident evil movie than a series that is supposed to inject the apocalypse with real human emotion and allegory. we want poignant content, not zombies at the carnival getting chopped to pieces. See more Joe w @rottingbanana Feb 20 I have never reviewed a movie before, but I really wanted to save anybody who is thinking about watching this the time; it sucks, it's a stepping stone fro more sequels. There is nothing redeeming whatsoever about this movie. The acting is fine, the writing is oki-sh, the story is trash. Run away! See more Scrittie B @scrittie_boogle Feb 13 Much weaker movie. 28 Days Later is a film about people and their actions, set in a "zombie" apocalypse, whereas 28 Weeks Later has a much stronger focus on the zombies - missing what made the first movie good. Many points in the film where plot points didn't make sense, sometimes just done for shock factor without adding anything to the story. Watched it as part of the series, would not watch as a stand-alone. See more Sean L @MovieSloth14 Feb 2 Of the 4, this one is like Ollie's Bargain Outlet. I mean 28 Years Later is Target. 28 Years the Bone Toaster is Meijer, and then 28 Days Later is Walmart. I would add Kmart, but Kmart is like the local mall, expired. When I was 12 I saw Darth Vader at Kmart. I was truly frightened. He LOOMED above us, like a thunderhead, with a stormtrooper on each side, two little puffs of warm air rising (updraft) into colder air in an unstable atmosphere...As I said, scary. My mom had a friend whose preacher at her local church (the one over by Graceland and the liquor store) told her to go home, gather all her kid's Star Wars toys (they were legion--total boss collection, including a Lego C-3PO Prototype and a Yak Face), and BURN them. She did so, and I was sadly thinking, "Why not give them to me?" (I owned a solitary Han Solo and a dog-chewed Greedo.) That's all my Star Wars stories, except the shoplifting/fried chicken episode and mom burning the house down. That story shall remain unanimated. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.
Director
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Producer
Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, Enrique López Lavigne
Screenwriter
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo, Enrique López Lavigne
Distributor
Fox
Production Co
Fox Atomic, DNA Films, Figment Films, Sogecine, Koan Films
Rating
R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Language|Strong Violence and Gore)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 11, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.6M
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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