All in all, a worthy sequel to Days and very few fans will be disappointed, I hope. The shots of post-apocalyptic London may have been done already but they're still as effective as ever, and John Murphy's score is brilliant as always. The Americanisation was not as severe as I had previously dreaded, and I actually quite welcomed Rose Byrne and Jeremy Renner leading the plot. The cast was well selected, nothing out of the ordinary but no obvious weak links either. So yeah, best film of the two is 28 days later, but better zombie film, 28 weeks later. 28 weeks later is much more of a traditional zombie film. The film starts off at an odd pace but soon settles into a familiar terror-stricken rush. Whilst 28 days later is the better film of the two (and it certianly is) to me it was always about the human condition with zombies being the backdrop. It might be the necessary thing to do, but that still doesn't make it feel right. Under such extreme circumstances, mankind's self-preservation instincts kicks in and it is an ugly sight to see.
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But most importantly, what keeps the series shockingly vivid is the willingness to flaunt the naked truth: we humans are the real monsters.
The rage virus, the zombies and the gore are all still here. Fresnadillo managed to maintain everything that was good in the original and add his own flair. So to say 28 Weeks Later was a pleasant surprise would be an understatement. All too predictably, he gets infected and immediately kicks off a second zombie apocalypse just months after. I also disapproved of the director switch, fearing that yet another low-budget gem will be Americanised by Hollywood, made far too slick for its own good. (28 Weeks Later) Unbeknownst to Don, his wife is an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. So when I heard that a sequel was in the making, I was excited but understandably cautious since the Disappointing Sequel Syndrome is all too common nowadays. I've never been a huge fan of the zombie horror genre, but I was very impressed by Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later Somehow it managed to create characters worth caring about as well as throwing mindless zombies at them.
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