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This movie is supposed to be a sequel to the 2002 Danny Boyle '28 Days Later... ', which is a mistake by itself, because that movie didn't need any follow up, it ended perfectly well and the story was closed.
The movie starts with Don (played by Robert Carlyle) along with his wife living in a Cottage far away from the city with few other people, the evening was disturbed by a knock on the door from a kid who was followed by infected people, the movie throw logic away from the very first 10 minutes with Don opening the door for the kid, because you know, it's not like there are zombies all over him, so zombies start breaching the house and killing everyone, and don abandon his wife and escape the house because he wasn't able to do anything to save her, and the scene ends with everyone's dead expect don.
Cut to 28 weeks later, with London secured by NATO forces and American Marines, and few people are coming in to live there! which is absolutely stupid, the city wasn't entirely secured, doctors weren't able to find an Immunity or anything to defeat the virus, so why are people coming in is never explained, Don welcome his daughter and son at the train station and take them to the hotel, Don's kids decided to go to their old house which belongs to a unsafe (possibly infected) area just to bring some family photos, they find their mom there infected but not dead.
Here's where the movie starts becoming ridiculous, they bring the infected person to the same area where there's residents, because you know, it's not like the virus caused an epidemic before, they leave the infected person with minimum security, don goes to visit his wife, and nobody stops him, because the movie have to start again, i mean, it has to start some way, and next thing you know, it's an epidemic all over again.
The movie spent too much money and time trying to make you feel like the Marine had this area covered, they bring "code red", like it supposed to be the ultimate protocol to kill the epidemic if it spread again, but when it does, you'll find out that "code red" was absolutely stupid, they locked down all people, infected or not at the same room, but somehow people were able to break and flee, maybe they used plastic locks to lock them down, when people starts fleeing, Marines start shooting everybody, it was a gore festival, but how killing everybody is securing the area?, furthermore, they bombed the city killing all 1500 people who arrived to London to live there, then they gassed it and took off, somehow that doesn't seem like they did a good job, and why the movie was trying to sell the idea that Marines knew what they were doing, but then the whole thing collapsed on itself making them look stupid, that seems like a terrible writing for me.
The worst thing about this movie was that, you don't really care about the people, right when Don becomes infected, there's none to root for, who's the protagonist? this movie used cliche no.1 in horror for the entire movie, which is killing secondary characters that you don't care about, even worse, they bring you another group led by the Marine Doyle (played by Jeremy Renner) who happened to abandon his mission and friends and went to few people to save them from the bombing and the gas, because the movie had to continue somehow, and you have to root for someone, but i didn't care about anyone, if anything, i wished that people would die because i wanted the movie to end.
It's very hard to mention performances here, because all they ever did was running, but Robert Carlyle brings a believable performance, on the other hand, Jeremy Renner played the most cliche Marine character ever, it was like 'let me leave my post to save people i don't know, and then let me waste my life trying to save those people even though, i just killed so many of them when i was at the top of the building'.
Overall, Absolutely unnecessary movie that was executed with no logic, no protagonists, nobody to care about, and had a terrible ending, which i hope didn't mean that we'll have another one, because i'm done with these zombies bullshit.
5/10
