Product Description

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!!System Requirements:Running Time: 113 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/ZOMBIES Rating: R UPC: 024543469902 Manufacturer No: 2246990

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6360 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.com
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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Customer Reviews

Better Than The Origional
"28 Weeks Later" is one of those rare sequels that is better than the first movie, 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition). This time there is less of an attempt to make a "deep" movie and switched to a standard formula of suspense and action (oh, and gore too). Other reviews have covered the plot lines, so I will not rehash them here. The film has a strong story line, good acting, good suspense, and great special effects.

Recommended for fans of the genre.

decent, if unspectacular, zombie film
"28 Weeks Later" picks up where "28 Days Later" left off. The virus that's been turning ordinary human beings into flesh-eating zombies has apparently run its course, the infected humans have all died of starvation, and Britain is slowly being repopulated with many of the citizens who fled the scene at the start of the epidemic. One of those returnees is Don (played by Robert Carlyle), who is suffering from survivor's guilt after leaving his wife in a moment of panic to be devoured by the creatures. Or was she? Suffice it to say, it's hard to keep a good virus down and soon London is in the grip of a major new outbreak of the illness. Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Imogen Poots and MacKintosh Muggleton (what a great name!) play various characters who spend the bulk of the movie running for their lives from the menace.

Zombie pictures have become such a staple of the horror movie genre that it is hard for anyone to do anything particularly novel or original with them anymore. Zombie bites human, human turns into zombie, new zombie bites another human, and on it goes ad infinitum. That scenario may have been fresh and exciting when George Romero first introduced it to the world in "Night of the Living Dead" back in 1968, but it has been diluted through repetition and overuse ever since (partly by Romero himself with his endless, ever diminishing variations on the theme). The one innovation the original "28 Days Later" came up with was to speed up the zombies' movements so that they were no longer the lumbering creatures that anyone's 85-year-old granny could easily outrun.

"28 Weeks Later" has some genuinely suspenseful moments and a nice post-apocalyptic feel in its early stretches, but, like its predecessor, it tends to devolve into a tedious shooting-gallery sideshow the longer it goes on. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's hurdy-gurdy filmmaking style, which is intended to replicate the chaos and pandemonium of the situation, often leads more to confusion than to clarification for the audience. Still, the movie contains a few cool plot twists and raises some thorny ethical issues, such as whether or not innocent people are to be sacrificed if that means ensuring the safety of the population as a whole. And there is certainly more than enough bloodshed and general mayhem to keep the zombiephiles among us rooted to our seats. Even the undead can have fun with that.

full course meal
Zombie movie, zombie movie, zombie movie. If that's your cup of tea, this is Darjeeling. It has all the expected ingredients, and is aimed to please. Halfway through the film, some similarities to the situation in "Aliens" occurred to me, but "Aliens" was a great film with themes and acting that transcended horror. This movie is just "aim to please," and that's about all, but done with a good budget. As in most standard horror films, there are characters who commit some stupid, and often selfish, acts, leading to the usual sense of overwhelming annoyance in the viewer. Isn't it funny that the main ingredients in standard horror films is a sense of overwhelming annoyance, overwhelming anticipation, and overwhelming terror? "28 Weeks Later" will serve up large, satisfying proportions of all three for all the zombie ravenous out there. Eat it up and keep your heart pumping for the next coming feast. The party never ends. Aaaarh, slobber, slobber.

Viewing suggestion: check out "Children of Men" if you haven't already. Same kind of energy, but that one borders more on the great. The Spanish directors have arrived.