I went to see the film 28 Weeks Later over the weekend. My review? Don't bother. Especially if you liked the original.

My friend commented - and I must say that I agree - that all of their budget went to paying Robert Carlyle's fee for acting... My additional thought was that this was truly a statement of when the US military goes in to oversee and subsequently "police" a situation, that they truly know how to screw it up. Not because they intend to but because they often go in with little or no information on the situation and use their own values to do so. And often, it's the little guys - the soldiers - that end up paying the price.

There were som highlights, such as the beginning of the film in which it showed how a person - no matter how much they love someone - would save their own skin over the one they love and the scene with the helicopter. Other than that, the ending was predictable and didn't hold the same "hopeful" feeling of the first film. I actually expected way more gore but this time, they had much of the happenings from the "infected" character's perspective but that meant that the camera shake made things a little unclear...

So my opinion is to see it at your own risk. Not because of the subject matter but because it didn't seem all that well thought out...

For those of you who saw Hot Fuzz, you'd be amused by the reference to Sandford in the above mentioned film. It'd make sense, really, as the villagers of Sandford pretty much behaved like zombies anyhow...