28 Weeks Later

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28 Weeks Later

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2007

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.

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Critics Consensus

While 28 Weeks Later lacks the humanism that made 28 Days Later a classic, it's made up with fantastic atmosphere and punchy direction.

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

08/22/2007

3/4

It's an exciting, well-directed thriller that, while providing more than enough action and gore to satisfy genre fans, also offers the political commentary that has characterized zombie movies.

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Rex Reed

Observer

06/20/2007

There isn't much acting here, but there is entirely too much vomiting, and the prose turns laughably purple, too.

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

05/21/2007

Even though I knew the scares were coming, I jumped out of my seat a few times.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Oct 11

[Director] Fresnadillo drives the scenes of zombie mayhem with a jumpy camera and a fractured editing style that adds a sense of panic to the chaos, as if seen through the terror-stricken perspective of an adrenaline-laced bystander.

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

Sep 2

Screenwriter Alex Garland’s willingness to get weirder and more mean-spirited in his follow-up is an unusual and admirable choice.

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Andrew Dignan

In Review Online

Jun 20

Stranger, more diffuse, and less wedded to conventional notions of realism and regularly occurring jump scares than its predecessors... [although] no film in recent memory has been more deserving of an “incomplete” grade.

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Jordyn S.

@JordynSicard 14h

Much better than 28 Days Later. Characters were great. It was a cool concept with the infected to all die and then life seeming to be normal again. Great visual with “eyes” and those who were immune but still infected.

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Mickey B.

@MickeyBeyond 6d

it’s a cynical / realistic approach to a zombie outbreak where hope is bleak and human compassion in the real end to humanity’s survival yet so is selfishness and it leaves you with the notion … is this merely humanity’s extinction or simply a further step into the next evolutionary process?

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Al M

@Almatt Dec 13

So let me get this straight, character who's a glorified caretaker, has access to all areas, get in to see his infected wife, through multiple door, that close tight behind you. No one is watching the infected wife at all. He goes in gets infected by kissing her. Still no one watching the sealed room. Then said cate taker miraculously is out as a zombie through all those doors he came through, and infected everyone. I call this a massive plot holes

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Quirky Q

Dec 12

Decent enough zombie movie but doesn't live up to its classic predecessor and suffers from some really bad writing.

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Ellie M

@Ellie11037 Dec 12

Not much happened that i feel. 2 kids are souly responsible for killing thousands of people. It didn't really feel like it "started" until an hour in after the real cold open. i don't feel like a .5 star is deserved.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Dec 5

Success in 01 hour, 40 minutes, and 06 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worldwide gross is $72,304,846.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Producer: Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, Enrique López Lavigne
Screenwriter: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo, Enrique López Lavigne
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: Fox Atomic, DNA Films, Figment Films, Sogecine, Koan Films
Rating: R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Language|Strong Violence and Gore)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 11, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.6M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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