That fine but why and how in God’s (or an awake screenwriter’s) name is he given an access key to every door, everywhere. The father, Don, is a maintenance worker of some kind and logically has a pass-key that lets him into certain areas of the quarantine complex to keep things running. I’ll get to where is falters first later. This is where 28 Weeks Later falters second. The United States military are gatekeepers and regulators of this quarantine and inexitably, that quarantine is breached. Two of these re-populating people are Don’s children, Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton). The Rage virus has been contained, part of England has been quarantined 27 weeks after the initial outbreak and on the 28 week, re-population into a “safe zone” is commencing. Highly trained snipers, scientists, helicopters, fighter jets, all inhabit this film and are effective to varying degrees.
Unlike Days, 28 Weeks Later has a military element that is integral to its plot. This theme is what both films are about, staying alive, but Weeks in its second act soon becomes about keeping two very unique individuals alive. The one all the people in the boarded up house are there for. He is forced to make a hard decision early in the film, a very human decision, the only logical one available to him. In Weeks, the audience is given someone to care about, a family in fact, whose father Don (Robert Carlyle) is the most sympathetic and “real” character in the entire film. Everything soon goes to hell but it is during Hades that the viewer first realizes how improved Weeks is in comparison to Days. At 28 Weeks Later‘s beginning, we meet a group of people hiding out in a boarded-up house from the Rage infected.
28 Weeks Later picks up almost exactly where Days left off, though there is a graphic novel produced by Fox Atomic Comic called “ 28 Days Later: The Aftermath” which details what happened between the two movies and the Rage virus as well. Bloodier and more vicious than 28 Days Later, Weeks doesn’t fall apart in its third act the way Days did. 28 Weeks Later is the rare sequel that is actually better than the film that preceded it.
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