Movie reviews: 28 Weeks Later 23 Articles

by David Martin

In a remote farmhouse, Don and Alice seek shelter with other survivors of the "Rage virus". A young boy enters the house explaining how he had escaped the infected. Unfortunately, they have followed him and attack the farm...read more

by Nicholas Cockayne

WARNING: SPOILERS I've got to say that 28 Days Later, the original title in the sequence is one of my favourite films. So it was with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation that I went to see 28 Weeks Later, hoping...read more

by Wes Laurie

28 Weeks Later is the sequel to 28 Days Later, but will anyone remember anything about it even 28 hours later? This time it is director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo showing us a story which continues off of where Danny Boyle...read more

by Jaclyn C. Stevenson

While the sequel lost some of the raw, psychological terror of its predecessor 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later does maintain the same horrific imagery and pulse-quickening pace, and still straddles the line between a gory sl...read more

by Kevin Powers

It's been 28 weeks since England was decimated by the rage virus and the American National Guard has slowly made a small section of the country livable again. All traces of the virus have since died out when those infecte...read more

by Sean Curtis

The precursor to 28 Weeks Later, 28 Days Later, was frenzied, gripping, and chilling tale of an epidemic outbreak on the British Isle. Unfortunately, the sequel is unable to recapture the magic of the original. Both forced...read more

by Martin Liebman

28 Weeks Later is a more straightforward, mainstream film than its predecessor, 28 Days Later, but it is still just as incredibly effective. Shot with a bigger budget and more sophisticated equipment (all the while maintai...read more

by Movie Pulse

28 Weeks Later boasts a fantastically intense opening sequence, and with it a promise of a relentlessly paced thriller. And director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo delivers exactly that. Outdoing the intensity (and certainly the ...read more

by Jacqui Walls

Stepping into a zombie horror sequel is always a slightly nervewracking experience. It's not the blood and gore, but rather that "difficult second album" moment, knowing that number two will never quite live up to the fi...read more

by Apocalypto Schwartz

Film is a young art form. As such, in comparison to literature or theater, it is in a state of infancy. And so, there are many kicks and screams, tantrums, and terrible two's. When Kubrik levelled the world with his use...read more

by Holly Rogers

There is something about zombie movies that just seem to never disappoint. Perhaps it is because we do not have such high expectations for the genre, or maybe the frantic, blood-thirsty undead are exactly what alot of us l...read more

by Elizabeth Reid

I hate horror films- I get scared too easily, and when I came out of this one I wanted to cry, and puke a little. That does not take away from the fact that this was an freaking awesome film. I was so impressed with 28 d...read more

by Graham Mcgregor

I was amazed to find that the sequel to 28 days later was actually better. For those who have not yet heard of these two films, basically they are centered around a virus called 'rage' that plagues the UK. What the previo...read more

by John Conrad

In the beginning there was the rage virus. 28 Days Later, it spread throughout England, decimating the population by turning them into bloodthirsty zombies. 28 Weeks Later, the zombie population has died off from st...read more

by James Harbinson

Watching "28 Weeks Later" is like meeting a gorgeous woman in a bar, but finding out that she loves country music songs about racism and animal abuse. "28 Weeks Later" is the sequel to the brilliant movie "28 Days Later...read more

by Leona Ash

While 28 Days Later is relatively slow paced, building up momentum for a final flourish, the opposite can be said for its sequel, 28 Weeks Later. Once the key characters are established after the pulsating nail-biting o...read more

by Tegan Mcrae

28 Weeks Later, the highly anticipated sequel to 28 Days Later, is easily the most mediocre, run of the mill zombie horror movie I've ever seen. And as a zombie book/movie/video game fanatic, that's saying a lot. What m...read more

by Karen Jeans

Well first of all, I don't know about you guys, but I was not 100 % sure about it, when hearing they were making a sequel, without our hero, Cillian Murphy, with kids as two of the leads, and with no Danny Boyle. But I mus...read more

by Chey

28 Weeks Later IS NOT A ZOMBIE FLICK! Sorry for the raised voice, but the film is receiving massive under-ratings simply because everyone is writing it off as the overdone, cliche zombie blood and gore. Grindhouse is a...read more

by Scott Heritage

28 weeks later has received a lot of flak by some reviews and movie guides, and i think somewhat unfairly so. Although when compared to the original it may seem at first glance to be inferior within the genre that the firs...read more