28 Weeks Later (2007)

Setting: London, roughly contemporary

The Sequel to ‘28 Days Later’ looks at the effects of the ‘rage virus’ from a slightly loftier perspective. We are not confined in the cluster phobic but effective style of the first film, to the experiences of a small group cut off from information about the outside world. Here we have information about the outside world, though limited, that creates a broader sense of context and scope. We still center around a smaller group, but these people have lived through the initial infection and have something of an understanding about it. In fact they are engaged in the post catastrophe reconstruction, a somewhat unusual perspective for a work which at heart is a zombie movie, and something I’d like to see in further explored beyond the parameters this film set for itself. Like most zombie movies this one is primarily a chase in its later half and thus not particularly distinguished, though I must give them points for the reconstruction setting.