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28 Weeks Later...
EMAILPRINTFox Atomic / 20th Century Fox

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Foreign | Horror | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Rowan Joffe
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Jesús Olmo
Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 11, 2007
DVD: October 9, 2007
Running Time: 99 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence and gore, language and some sexuality/nudity
Starring Catherine McCormack, Robert Carlyle, Amanda Walker, Shahid Ahmed, Garfield Morgan, Emily Beecham, Beans El-Balawi, and Chris Ryman
28 Weeks Later, the follow up to 28 Days Later, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the Mainland Britain. The U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. As the first wave of refugees return, a family is reunited, but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever. (Fox Atomic)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
There's no better fun for movie lovers than a small, unheralded film that turns out to be terrific -- unless it's a small, unheralded sequel that trumps the original.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
A full-bore zombie romp that more than delivers the genre goods.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Those rigorously moral and humanistic underpinnings give 28 Weeks Later a kind of power that 100 Saws and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes could never achieve.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
28 Weeks Later has a stronger story line, equally fine performances, greater tension, enough gore to satisfy the most hard-core zombie fan, and a narrative pace that flings us from the opening scenes to the very last image.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Under Fresnadillo's assured direction, 28 Weeks Later blurs the line between genre entertainment and a photojournalist's shots of the next urban catastrophe.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
I give the slight edge to the first movie because I prefer Boyle's craft to Fresnadillo's, but the action is more intense here, and I greeted the thought of a third film -- virtually assured in the closing shots -- with a little yip of "Yes!" Likely you will, too.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The ending is a set-up for yet another sequel: Can "28 Months Later" be very far away?
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
28 Weeks Later lacks the streamlined thrust of its predecessor but makes for compelling, adrenaline-fueled viewing just the same.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Blistering and nihilistic--a vision to reduce you to a puddle of despair.
Read Full Review >Empire Kim Newman
Bigger action, more amazing deserted (and devastated) London sequences and biting contemporary relevance, if a touch less heart than the original.
Read Full Review >Slate Grady Hendrix
The first hour of this lean, mean, 95-minute scream machine is so tasty that it redeems the predictable conclusion.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nathan Lee
The sequel trumps its predecessor for sustained doomsday gloom and suggests this might be the man to adapt Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
This sequel to the apocalyptic splatter flick "28 Days Later" . . . (2002) is still well equipped to rip your face off.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
t'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 going back at least as far as "Night of the Living Dead."
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Holds the audience captive and unusually vulnerable to psycho- and viscero-terror.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The biggest sin of 28 Weeks Later is that it's not in the same league as the near-perfect movie that came before it.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
A gruelingly tense, deftly plotted, and slyly intelligent piece of work. And also it's really really disgusting.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Relentlessly grim and grisly, 28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart. But its provocative post-apocalyptic theme makes for a smart and deeply unsettling film.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
28 Weeks Later is flawed -- the constant reappearance of one key character verges on the absurd -- but it knows where it's going, and it gets there in a chilling blaze of fire, blood and poisonous fog.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Where the original gave you something to chew on, the sequel is more interested in chewing on you.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who was essentially handpicked by now-executive producer Danny Boyle, gives us a more depressing look at humanity while retaining several of his predecessor’s moves. This isn’t always a good thing, since Fresnadillo can’t seem to get his fill of low-light hyper-edited fight scenes or frenetic hand-held shots of people running, but when used right it adds to the sense of claustrophobia and impending doom.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The mayhem is presented sparingly enough to be suspenseful, some of the sequences are genuinely terrifying and, compared with Hollywood's last zombie movie, the Robert Rodriguez half of "Grindhouse," it's a masterpiece.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
While 28 Weeks Later ultimately falls shy of classic status (it's no Panic in Year Zero!), there are several hard-to-shake scenes -- nightmare visions, really -- that reveal the infected populace to be far less dangerous to the fabric of a civilized society than, perhaps, the very notion of civilization itself.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Only occasionally does Fresnadillo rise above the mundane, but, to his credit, the exceptions are worth savouring.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Doesn't match the impact of its predecessor, which both revived and reimagined the zombie-film genre.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Deals with emotional concerns for half an hour. Then it turns into a mindless bloodfest, where it's impossible to care which characters end on the zombie gore-gasbord.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
"28 Days Later," while not terribly original, was suspenseful and involving. 28 Weeks Later is neither. The characters aren't as sympathetic or interesting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 210 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Larry B gave it a10:
No, Conor B., how misleading Metacritic users can be. Are you serious? You're suggesting that a zombie movie is...implausible? Are you kidding me? You're an idiot. Zombie movies aren't supposed to be about realism. They're supposed to be scary and intense, and that's exactly what 28 Weeks Later was. Stick to the more important George Clooney type movies with realistic situations and realistic people. Or, you know, you could just go outside and experience realistic situations yourself, but those aren't that entertaining, are they? And, Harry G., what they hell are you talking about? There were only a few scenes that even used CG.... Most of the people underrating this excellent movie don't even know what the hell they are talking about: they're either enraged that this movie is a sequel (and all sequels MUST suck, it's a traditional POV to take on all sequels) or they're upset over the lack of realism...in a movie about zombies. I'll stick with the critics, thanks.
Dan L gave it a10:
Absolutely phenomenal. I enjoy this movie considerably more than the first one. The acting was believable, and the special effects definitely worked to convey the gritty, horrific reality of the subject matter.
Alex G. gave it a1:
Do you like movies where you don't have to think? Do you enjoy movies with plot holes the size of an Airbus? Do you enjoy movies with magical zombies that can teleport? How about movies with the most stupid, idiotic unengaged characters? Well you will enjoy this film! Now, don't get me wrong, I love gore, suspense, great music score.. which you will find in this movie.. well the first 5 minutes, but after that, you got nothing. Illogical, how does a Janitor have clearance all through-out a military base? How do the kids in the film defy all logic throughout? If you want an engaging horror movie with characters you feel sorry for when they die, with an actual real soul. Avoid this film.
Joshua H gave it a9:
Great film, Shows enough gore to make a horror movie yet creates enough suspense for a compelling thriller that you can't take your eyes off.The director masterfully builds suspense and excitement. Everything was well done from the camera work to the music cues.Good dialogue and great special effects. loved it.
Randy M gave it a9:
28 Weeks Later is dark. Beyond dark. It's a movie lover's masochistic nightmare. But it's shocking, intelligent, and will leave you utterly exhausted by the time your finished watching it. The movie gives you almost no time to relax and cleverly instills a sense of panic throughout. Brilliantly concieved and more than worthy to sit among the few top-tier horror films.
Jacob B gave it a5:
Well if you were to ask me I would say that this movie was no where near as good as the first one there were a couple things I did not like in this movie for say how stupid the military was and how stupid most characters were I think the sniper was the only one there who even had a brain but it did have some awesome action scenes that's the only reason I would watch this movie.
Arjan D. gave it a2:
28 Days Later was, in my opinion, a breathtaking movie, so I expected 28 Weeks later to be of the same quality. I was very disappointed to see the movie fall apart soon after the (second) outbreak of the infection. Most of the actors were sacrificed so fast after each other you didn't have time to feel sorry for them. Besides, the atmospere and suspense of 28 Days later weren't matched by far. I think this is the case because a bid-budget sequel to a low-budget movie simply doesn't work. All in all, I think 28 Weeks later isn't worthy of being the sequel to 28 Days later.
