🧟‍♂️ 28 Weeks Later (2007) – Review

Trailer📽️:

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🧠 Non-Spoiler Thoughts:

So… remember how 28 Days Later ended on hope? Yeah, forget all that.

28 Weeks Later is the sequel that tries very hard to recapture what made the first film great—only this time with more budget and less soul. It opens with a genuinely brutal scene, gets your attention fast, and then slowly (but not softly) nosedives into dumb decisions, bland characters, and one of the most facepalm-worthy plot twists I’ve seen in a while.

And look—I love Idris Elba. Always have. Always will. But the fact that his character is here and barely gets to do anything? Wasted potential. That sums up this movie pretty well, honestly.

The rage virus is back (somehow), and so is the military, but this time they’re just… dumber. The plot leans heavily on shaky science, like a woman surviving the infection because of her eye color, and her husband deciding “you know what’ll fix this? A kiss.” Spoiler alert: it does not fix this.

It’s not all bad—the opening and final shot are solid—but everything in between feels like it’s trying to impress you instead of scare you.


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⭐ Cast:

Don – Robert Carlyle: The “I ran away and kissed my zombie wife” guy. No notes.

Alice – Catherine McCormack: The “I survived rage mode because plot said so” lady.

Scarlet – Rose Byrne: She tries to keep things grounded, bless her.

Flynn – Harold Perrineau: The MVP. Helicopter pilot with common sense.

General Stone – Idris Elba: Deserved better. Why cast Idris if you’re not gonna let him do anything?



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✅ Pros:

Opening scene is intense and emotionally gutting

Creepy final shot with infected running into France

Idris Elba (even if the movie wastes him)



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❌ Cons:

Alice survives the virus because… reasons?

Don kisses his infected wife like it’s a Nicholas Sparks movie

Plot makes everyone stupider just to move forward

Characters feel flat and underdeveloped

Less emotional weight, more flashy chaos

Generic action-horror energy

Doesn’t honor the tone or world of the original

Idris Elba is right there and underused!



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🎯 Final Rating:

5/10 – Half-infected plot, fully infected logic
A few great moments buried under a mountain of dumb. Rage doesn’t need a sequel—but Hollywood did it anyway.


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⚠️ Spoiler Zone:

Let’s talk about that kiss. Don sees his wife, who’s survived infection somehow, and instead of asking “how are you alive” or “should we call a hazmat team,” he decides to lean in and full-on make out with her. And then she infects him, and he becomes the Patient Zero of this new outbreak.

All of this happens because no one thought to quarantine her properly—or keep him out. The whole downfall of London 2.0 happens because of one emotionally stupid man who should’ve known better.

Also… the kids. Who let the kids out of the safe zone? Who approved any of this? It’s a checklist of every possible dumb decision being made, back-to-back. No wonder the infected made it to France by the end. Everyone in charge was on vacation from common sense.

Anyways hope y’all enjoyed this review, The reason I’m reviewing this now is because we’re officially getting a 3rd film titled 28 Years Later, which releases on the 20th, Here’s the trailer.