28 Weeks Later - Meet the worst family in the history of England (spoilers galore)
28 Weeks Later is a good deal better than the disappointing 28 Days Later. It has a good mix of action sequences, big explosions, hails of gunfire, and up-tempo running as ragers repopulate the city that 28 weeks earlier had been depopulated by the first wave of ragers.
The virus-induced repocalypse is caused by an English family that was separated during the first outbreak and then reunited during the reconstruction of England by a US-led NATO-force (all the troops are of course American). Daddy thought mommy was torn apart by ragers during the first outbreak, while the kids were way on a school trip, so when mommy turns up alive, thanks to her super-special blood, the kids are pissed off at dad who tries to rectify the situation by making out with mommy, who unwittingly infects daddy who then kills her, rager style. And then the fun is on.
After much shooting, biting, bombing, clawing, running, tearing, gassing, gnashing, and burning the daughter kills daddy ragest and flies off to France with her brother where they promptly infect the Gauls.
All in all it’s a decent though occasionally silly movie. Nothing special one way or the other.
