28 Weeks Later (2007)
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col 100m
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack
Synopsis:
All carriers are dead, the US military is in charge and the Isle of Dogs is being used as the kernel of a tentative resettlement of the UK after the scourge of the rage virus which struck in 28 Days Later.
Review:
In this decent enough sequel we follow a character (Carlyle) who develops from fallible human being in the prologue, to guilt-ridden father, and finally to avenging fury. Thus the film shares, and even carries further, the horror of sudden infection and transformation into something inhuman, sparing only the children the callous strike of an arbitrary fate. Notwithstanding the voguishly bleak epilogue, this squeamishness at breaking the taboo of despoiled innocence, together with three or so glaring coincidences necessary to the disastrous unravelling of the plot, compromises the essentially bleak randomness of the whole concept. Sequel ups the violence and spectacle quotient but keeps the music and scattershot camerawork. Unlike zombies these creatures move fast!
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col 100m
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack
Synopsis:
All carriers are dead, the US military is in charge and the Isle of Dogs is being used as the kernel of a tentative resettlement of the UK after the scourge of the rage virus which struck in 28 Days Later.
Review:
In this decent enough sequel we follow a character (Carlyle) who develops from fallible human being in the prologue, to guilt-ridden father, and finally to avenging fury. Thus the film shares, and even carries further, the horror of sudden infection and transformation into something inhuman, sparing only the children the callous strike of an arbitrary fate. Notwithstanding the voguishly bleak epilogue, this squeamishness at breaking the taboo of despoiled innocence, together with three or so glaring coincidences necessary to the disastrous unravelling of the plot, compromises the essentially bleak randomness of the whole concept. Sequel ups the violence and spectacle quotient but keeps the music and scattershot camerawork. Unlike zombies these creatures move fast!
Country: GB/SP
Technical: col 100m
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack
Synopsis:
All carriers are dead, the US military is in charge and the Isle of Dogs is being used as the kernel of a tentative resettlement of the UK after the scourge of the rage virus which struck in 28 Days Later.
Review:
In this decent enough sequel we follow a character (Carlyle) who develops from fallible human being in the prologue, to guilt-ridden father, and finally to avenging fury. Thus the film shares, and even carries further, the horror of sudden infection and transformation into something inhuman, sparing only the children the callous strike of an arbitrary fate. Notwithstanding the voguishly bleak epilogue, this squeamishness at breaking the taboo of despoiled innocence, together with three or so glaring coincidences necessary to the disastrous unravelling of the plot, compromises the essentially bleak randomness of the whole concept. Sequel ups the violence and spectacle quotient but keeps the music and scattershot camerawork. Unlike zombies these creatures move fast!