28 Weeks Later
Fox Atomic | Release Date: May 11, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement. Read full review
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets. Read full review
90
VarietyDerek Elley
A full-bore zombie romp that more than delivers the genre goods. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.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
90
Wall Street JournalJoe 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
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeErin Meister
The script is biting and timely. Read full review
88
Miami HeraldRene 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
88
New York Daily NewsJack 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
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
The ending is a set-up for yet another sequel: Can "28 Months Later" be very far away? Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubScott 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
83
Portland OregonianShawn 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
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Blistering and nihilistic--a vision to reduce you to a puddle of despair. Read full review
80
EmpireKim 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
80
Village VoiceNathan 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
80
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
28 Weeks Later lacks the streamlined thrust of its predecessor but makes for compelling, adrenaline-fueled viewing just the same. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJ.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
80
SlateGrady Hendrix
The first hour of this lean, mean, 95-minute scream machine is so tasty that it redeems the predictable conclusion. Read full review
75
PremiereGlenn Kenny
A gruelingly tense, deftly plotted, and slyly intelligent piece of work. And also it's really really disgusting. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia 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
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland 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
75
New York PostLou 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
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Holds the audience captive and unusually vulnerable to psycho- and viscero-terror. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter 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
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Hold on for a hell of a ride. Read full review
70
Film ThreatPete 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
70
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Where the original gave you something to chew on, the sequel is more interested in chewing on you. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc 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
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam 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
63
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
58
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Doesn't match the impact of its predecessor, which both revived and reimagined the zombie-film genre. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames 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
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence 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
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