Movie reviews: 28 Weeks Later 29 Articles

by Christianna Garrett-Martin

- 28 WEEKS LATER - Released in 2007 under the Science Fiction/Horror Genre. 28 Weeks Later is a higher budget, post apocalyptic sequel to the International film success of 28 Days Later which was released in 2002. 28 ...read more

by Stephen Carter

This analysis of '28 Weeks Later' will consider how the movie's five plot points create the story's deep structure. These discrete story points include the 'Inciting Incident' in Act 1, 'Turning Points 1 and 2' in Act 2, ...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 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 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 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 Perry Cox

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 Phillip Ellis

Let the offal fly! The new millennium has been pretty thin on the ground for great movies but has seen a fun revival of the zombie genre, the excellent remakes of the Romero cult classics an example of. The Brits came u...read more

by Spencer Hawken

Anyone old enough to remember would most certainly have made comparisons between 28 Days Later and classic TV shows like Day Of The Triffids, The Survivors and more recently The Last Train. 28 Days Later mixed an apocalypt...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 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 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 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 Manny The Movie Guy

In 2002, Director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting") single-handedly resurrected the zombie genre with "28 Days Later." The film also made a star out of Cillian Murphy ("Red Eye," "Batman Begins"). "28 Days Later" was scary a...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 Daniel Hirsh

During the latter part of my film career, I noticed a trend starting to occur. Even going to film school, learning about the greats such as Garbo, Grant, even Hitchcock as one of the great horror/suspense filmmakers of al...read more

by Harry Tournemille

Right away this film had two strikes against it. First, it's a sequel to an already great film, and we all know how rare it is for a sequel to be of substance. Second, it's playing out one of the largest and most nauseatin...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 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