28 Weeks Later parodies the Iraq war effort...in London...with zombies

by mardoux | May 10, 2007 at 10:46 am

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I really liked the first movie in this series, 28 Days Later. It took the zombie genre and boiled it down to its essentials, making it beautiful and stylish and about love and family and how we look after one another as humans (and how we don't). I've heard some negative reviews of the second film, which revisits the country in seven months (hence the title) during the rebuilding effort. The US Army has been called in to help rebuild but the results are dubious...sound familiar? Yeah, it's definitely not really about flesh eating...

Six months after the events of the first film, the virus has ostensibly been contained, reconstruction has begun and the U.S. Army has swaggered into town to spread jocular banter and a sense of security all over London. Children who had been exiled to the safety of camps in Spain are beginning to return. Unlike many of them, however, teenage Tammy (Imogen Poots) and her younger brother Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) actually have a parent to come back to.

Reviewers say the film fails to connect to the characters as well as the first one did. I wouldn't be surprised--if that is the case--that it's because we've lost director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Millions) and writer Alex Garland (The Beach). Fingers crossed that it's better than people say--I really like a good zombie film-meets-Iraq parody.

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