28 Weeks Later Is Not As Good As The Original

Ξ May 14th, 2007 | → | ∇ |

*Possible loose SPOILERS*

It’s basically two hours of running. At least the first one had some substance and real character development, this one feels a superficial. They try to develop the relationship between Don (Carlyle), Alice (McCormack) and their kids Tammy (Poots) and Andy (Muggleton) but it’s all too quick and glossy, just like the camera work.

It’s tense, providing moments of great theatre but overall it’s not continually pushing you to the edge of your seat. They just seem to always find a way to get in or get away with a everyone else dying around them. It ends up like watching canon fodder drop while the kids inevitably get away. Scooberific.
There are good scenes and it’s an entertaining movie but you can’t help think that it should go somewhere but just, doesn’t. As a horror movie it works well if you enjoy people coughing up copious amounts of blood, continually, but filling the belly with the movie experience it leaves you a Twisted; yearning for seconds.