28 Weeks Later
(2007)
science fiction horror
directed
by : Juan Carlos Fresnadilo
featuring
: Robert Carlyle - Rose Byrne - Jeremy Renner - Harold Perrineau Jr
running
time : 1 hour 33 minutes
The devastating rage virus that annihilated
the British Isles mysteriously resurfaces in Goya Award-winning director
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's sequel to the Danny Boyle-directed horror hit
that terrified audiences worldwide by offering a breathless new take on
the familiar zombie mythos. Six months has passed since the rage virus
caused British residents to indiscriminately murder and destroy everything
in their paths, and now the U.S. military has declared victory in the war
against the rapidly spreading infection. As the reconstruction process
gets underway and the first wave of refugees return to British shores,
a family separated by the devastation is happily reunited. During the initial
outbreak, Don Harris (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack)
sat holed up with a small band of survivors in a remote farmhouse. Their
kids well out of harm's way at a remote boarding school, Don and Alice's
outlook for the future is decidedly bright until all hell breaks loose
in the country and Don just barely manages to escape the clutches of the
infected. The joy of later seeing his son Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and
daughter Tammy (Imogen Poots) as repopulation efforts get underway in London
is short-lived, however, when an innocent bid to reconnect with the past
sets into motion a tragic series of events. Now, just as society struggles
to sort through the rubble and rebuild London from the ground up, the virus
that nearly destroyed a nation strikes back with a vengeance. Jeremy Renner,
Rose Byrne, and Harold Perrineau, Jr. co-star in the frightful sequel,
which highlights the dangers of declaring victory in the calm before the
storm.