28 Weeks Later (Widescreen Edition)
by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
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Actor: Amanda Walker, Catherine McCormack, Garfield Morgan, Robert Carlyle, Shahid AhmedDirector: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of 28 Weeks Later (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Five stars for the strength of the metaphor
Summary: 5 Stars
Small spoilers ahead:
On first watching, I, like many others, did not like this sequel as much as I liked the original, but by the next morning I had changed my mind. I like it even better after watching it again. The message here is a lot more insidious than the message of the first movie. It's harder to grasp, at first, but once you see it and start thinking about it, it just keeps finding its way back to the front of your head.
This movie is, from beginning to end, a heartbreaking treatise on how a father's failings destroy, first, his own family and then, as a consequence, his entire society. That's a powerful and (I think) controversial thought to put out there, but the movie handles it delicately and responsibly, weaving the father's flaws and best intentions into the most human zombie since Bub.
Robert Carlyle executes this role with subtlety and grace: his character's love for and abandonment of his wife, the lie he tells his children, the pain in his face even when he is completely out of control - all of these emotions are evident on his bloodstained face. Catherine McCormack is amazing in a far-too-small role as the wronged wife and mother whose compassionate choice leads to her death - more than once.
Yes, the dialogue is terse, and, yes, the plot is spare, but this is a poetic depiction of how a family disintegrates and takes down everything around it - and how society's efforts to change that - public housing, incarceration, state-sanctioned violence, and finally catastrophic military intervention - ultimately fail.
I guess it probably goes without saying that zombie movies are pretty misanthropic as a general rule, and 28 Weeks Later is no exception, but unlike most other movies in the genre, this one is balanced with a fairly sympathetic take on nearly all of the humans involved - not just a few heroic ones. Almost all of these characters are doing their best. And failing in spite of it.
Summary of 28 Weeks Later (Widescreen Edition)
28 WEEKS LATER is sequel to the successful 28 Days Later.The film pick up six months after the Rage virus has spread throughout the city of London. The United States Army has restored order and is repopulating the quarantined city, when a carrier of the Rage virus enters London and unknowingly re-ignites the spread of the deadly infection, wreaking havoc on the entire population. The virus is not yet dead, and this time it's more dangerous than ever!!
As an exercise in pure, unadulterated terror, 28 Weeks Later is a worthy follow-up to its acclaimed predecessor, 28 Days Later. In this ultraviolent sequel from Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (hired on the strength of his 2001 thriller Intacto), over six months have passed since the first film's apocalyptic vision of London overrun by infectious, plague-ridden zombies. Just when it seems the "rage virus" has been fully contained, and London is in the process of slowly recovering, an extremely unfortunate couple (Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack) is attacked by a small band of rampaging "ragers," and the cowardly husband escapes while his wife is attacked and presumably infected. Their surviving children (Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton) fall under the protection of a U.S. Army sharpshooter (Jeremy Renner), but nobody's safe for long as 28 Weeks Later goes into action-packed overdrive, with scene after blood-gushing scene of carnage and decimation. The film's visuals follow the look established in 28 Days Later, this time with bigger and better scenes of a nearly abandoned London on the brink of utter destruction. The military subplot gets a bold assist from Harold Perrineau (as a daring helicopter pilot) and Idris Elba (in a too-brief role as the military commander), and their firepower--not to mention the efficient lethality of helicopter blades--turns 28 Weeks Later into a nonstop bloodbath that's way too intense for younger viewers and guaranteed to leave hardcore horror fans gruesomely satisfied. That's all there is to it--this film is almost plotless and dialogue is minimal throughout--but as a truly terrifying vision of survival amidst chaos, 28 Weeks Later honors its origins and qualifies as a solid double-feature with Children of Men. Could there be another sequel? Thanks to the "chunnel," the answer in this case is definitely oui. --Jeff Shannon
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