Entertainment

Movie Review - 28 weeks later

As I am now managing to get home at a reasonable time I can catch up on those DVD's that I have not yet seen, one of which was 28 weeks later.

As the title suggests the film starts 28 weeks after the RAGE virus has decimated London, and we see a group of survivors in a country cottage. A young boy turns up free of the virus, but with RAGE victims following him.

One of the occupants Don (Robert Carlye) escapes leaving his wife and the young boy to the fate of the infected.

We then move to a US military controlled London, and Dons kids are been shipped in both clean from the virus.

What follows is a rip-roaring blood fest and jumpy action across London and beyond, I wont spoil it to tell you how, but the virus is re-introduced, and in typical OTT response the US military have to wipe it out.

Got to say that the film relies more on effects than on the atmospheric 'scare' nature of the first film 28 days later, but it is still pretty enjoyable. Quite a few makes you jump moments, and some nasty gory stuff too, the helicoptor scene is a major example of this.

There are a few surprises as well in the film, and a few things that make you say "Oh, No Way!" but it still doesn't detract from the film itself, the musical score is also very powerful, especially the haunting melody running through the majority of it.

I think that a good tagline for the film could have been "Kiss of Death", but they went with something else.

So if you fancy a good fun film, watch it, just don't be like me and be too disappointed with the end. To me it ended too suddenly and in a rush.

Certificate : - 18

Starring : - Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Jeremy Renner

Rating : - ***1/2