I'm not sure about this, 28 Days Later is a brilliant film, but I saw the trailer to the sequel ins kino today and it looked not too bad, and has a not half bad cast. Danny Boyle was "executive producer", which means it didn't have very much to do with him, but his name's on it at least! Trailer here: http://www.28weekslatermovie.co.uk/
Yeah I don't know about this one. The first one was brilliant, and sometimes I wish they would just let brilliant movies, stand by themselves without making sequels becuase more times then not the sequels suck. It looks alright, but I'm sure it wont come close to the first.
I'm going to watch it with an open mind and high expectations, though I'm a little disappointed Cillian Murphy's character won't be returning....
I overheard the liftmen at Greenwich tunnel saying that filming had been done in greenwich for 28 weeks later. I wondered why their was a camera, a man sitting in a chair with a pen and paper. I am not sure what the sequal will be like. Maybe the disease is destroyed and Britain has quaranteen lifted or something.
Yeah it starts off six months after infection, the disease has died out and they are reintroducing refugees into London to start again - this is all in the trailer. Following that premise it descended into lots of spectacular-looking action sequences, I fear that like so many sequels it will just be a plot/action thriller and will abandon what was so good about the original, its strength of good solid science fiction ideas. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, though!
Definitely going to see it soon Got a great review from Mark Kermode on The Culture Show, and that man's rarely wrong.
Um. I don't really understand why it got (relatively) good reviews, it's really not very good at all...
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I'm about half way through it, after watching a women get here eyeballs shoved back into her head by a pair of thumbs for a good uncomfortable half a minute to a minute, I'm ready to turn it off. Gah.
I liked parts of it , the beginning was good and it made me think of family loyalty was the guy wrong to run I think he was but then i think his daughter was wrong to not just shoot her brother . I watched it and resident evil extinction on youtube someones put both films up
Also the soldiers in 28 weeks after ought to have been ashamed of themselves the ones who try to save the kids
I saw it the other day and really enjoyed it. They took a really brave step making Robert Carlysle, who was supposed to be their lead actor, an infected zombie creature with no lines of dialogue half way through the film and I think it paid off. I completely wasn't expecting that. Otherwise it was a similar formula to the last time, without some of the more interesting questions of human nature and the darkness of man's heart that makes us all violent psychopaths in the right cirumstances, even without rage. It didn't have Cillian Murphy, who is one of my favourite actors, of Christopher Eccleston, whom I also like. The presence of Americans, though not overblown as it often is, made the fear seem a bit more distant to me. So I wouldn't say it was as good as the first one. Even if I'd seen this film first, I think I'd consider 28 Days the superior film, but this does work as a sequel and definitely enjoyable and worth watching. Boyle is currently considering making 28 Months Later, set in Russia....
