(R) 28 Weeks Later is largely headache-inducing stuff -- frenetic, synapse-shredding, strobe-light-and-amyl-nitrate horror. The movie picks up some months after its predecessor ( ), with the zombie-inducing epidemic of the original film apparently contained and American-led NATO forces moving in to help rebuild a devastated Britain. Everything soon enough goes to hell, of course, and the bulk of the film is pure chaos, as masses of frightened human survivors and infected, flesh-craving zombies run amok through the streets of London, and confused U.
S. soldiers stand at a distance firing blindly into the crowds, unable to tell friends from foes. The movie s scenario practically demands a parallel or three with Iraq, but there s very little shape or nuance to what happens here, and what mainly has going for it is some pretty extreme and ugly nihilism (the person we presume to be the hero even runs out on his loved ones in the first scene and, in a particularly dubious bit of pop psychology, later becomes a monstrous daddy-zombie stalking his own children).
There are some clever turns here, but the movie mainly just tosses out a series of faceless characters for its zombies to chow down on, all set to a combination of aggressive metal and dreamy, discordant rock of the sort that used to be called alternative. Not much of a beat, but I suppose you could dance to it if you tried. Stars Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Makintosh Muggleton and Idris Elba.
2.5 stars (R) We ve come a long way from , to the point where it s easy to forget that the digitally tweaked imagery washing over us in is not, strictly speaking, real. The source here is a graphic novel by Frank Miller, and the sense that s imparted is that director Zack Snyder (rebounding nicely from his Dawn of the Dead remake) has imbued the panels not only with motion but also with life.
An even more sophisticated blend of human actors and computer-generated environments than what was achieved in Miller s (R) 28 Weeks Later is largely headache-inducing stuff -- frenetic, synapse-shredding, strobe-light-and-amyl-nitrate horror.
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