Belated 28 Weeks Later Review

Saw this just a couple of hours ago, the last showing at the Cineworld Luton! So glad I did. A real big screen type of movie, even though anyone not seeing it up to this point will probably now have to wait for the DVD. That's fine just move an armchair up really close to the telly! This film had so many amazing sequences it's hard to remember them all, some of the shots of a deserted or dilapitated London were breathtaking. The firebombing, the opening cottage attack, the attack on the car, the helicopter blades, Robert Carlyle's transformation, the night scope scene, the zig-zag and Wembley Stadium! A superb action adventure, and for me the best, "infected/zombie" film I have ever seen. Way better, in my opinion, than the original which I thought was over-rated somewhat. And a lot better than Shaun Of The Dead, which, I'm sorry, I also think is overrated! I seem to be much more of a Hot Fuzz type of bloke! So many people have just turned against me! It's just one film and I loved Spaced! Something I've always been bemused about with the George. A. Romero type of films is how slow the undead move. Just jog and you'll get away from them! But not in the 28 movies! That was what was so fresh about the original, but everything is taken up a notch here. Robert Carlyle is terrifying at times. Always an actor I've liked to watch, particularly, if like me, you thought he was one of the greatest murderers the Cracker series ever produced. The pace and tension hardly lets up in this fantastic blood soaked thrill ride (certainly not for the squeamish!) And I felt it had more tension in a single minute than Danny Boyle's own Sunshine produced in almost 2 hours! (controversial!!) From the credits this certainly looked like a British film (which is hard to define these days.) And if that is the case, we are doing very well! We can do moody mellodrama, but action, can we honestly compete with Hollywood there? Yes! On the strength of this! Michael Bay eat your heart out, (or get Robert Carlyle to eat your heart out for you, he seems really hungry these days for human flesh, although, can I just say, Mr Bay, please, please make Transformers as good as the last trailer. I am so excited!!)

Well done to all concerned (28 weeks later, not Transformers, we'll pass judgement on that in July), and I award you

4 and a half stars out of 5

because although most of the camerawork was mesmerising, some of it made me want to empty my bag of popcorn and use the bag as a....well, I think you can guess! The words, motion and sickness very much come to mind!