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OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh |
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| "a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
| "Yikes! '28 Weeks Later' is a very, very scary movie." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
2.5/5 | "If there is such a thing as a successful piecemeal horror film, 28 Weeks Later is it." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
F | "The film isn't simply bad, it's a trainwreck." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3.5/5 | "recoups from minor mistakes by making bold choices in the middle and third acts" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
C- | "This isn't just a bad movie. It's a cut-and-paste example of how movie sequels are predictably inferior to their ancestors." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "While the theme of soldiers as lethal and relentless as the infecteds repeats Boyle's film, here the uniformed threat is specifically U.S." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "If there will ever be a 28 Months Later, we can hope it will be just as smart." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3.5/4 | ""Weeks" abandons any trace of hope it has in characters prevailing for the better. It is cynical, nihilistic and unflinching." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
2.5/4 | "Apparently it takes 'Weeks', rather than 'Days', to enjoy a sprightly-paced, finely-acted, and surprisingly intelligent apocalyptic zombie horror." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
3/4 | "...immediately establishes itself as a cousin to its predecessor in both style and tone." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
C | "Its set pieces are mostly viewed through a night-vision rifle scope, which only made me feel groggy." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "28 Days Later had its moments, to be sure, but 28 Weeks Later is the real deal--scarier, darker, uncompromising, and more emotionally complex." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "Una digna segunda parte que mantiene el nivel de la original, de 2002, gracias a su ritmo inquietante, su nerviosa banda sonora y su escenario cuasi apocalíptico." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B+ | "The sequel feels cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, and is nearly as good." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3/4 | "Mixing it up between outright action and blinding sequences of terror, it's precisely the type of pace a sequel of this sort needs to satisfy fans" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A- | "It's harrowing, heartbreaking and unforgettable all at once." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/5 | "It’s a worthy follow-up, and I’ll surely be waiting for 28 Months Later." |
| Film Threat |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
D | "Even for a zombie-ghoul movie, its idiocy is beyond the pale." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
B+ | ""The rage virus," which turns the population into irrational, blood-thirsty brutes and activates a vicious military campaign, becomes an apt metaphor for the frenzied fear of terrorism pervading the post-9/11 (and post 7/7) West." |
| Cinepinion |
| Henry Stewart |
2/4 | "Another week, another disappointing summer sequel. So it goes…" |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "works not just because of its visual and thematic resonance with current global traumas, but because it grips you on an emotional level" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "deft and stylish" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | "28 Weeks Later rolls in like a poisonous dust cloud of nihilism." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
5/5 | "Besides exhilarating, terrifying action, what 28 Weeks Later achieves best is a mood of terror, vigilant fear, and high-alert tummy flutters. Worth every penny." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4.5/5 | "quite easily one of the scariest films of the year" |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
B+ | "...an incendiary critique of the U.S. handling of Iraq and its own allies...more wholly satisfying than its predecessor." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "Flawed, but it knows where it's going, and it gets there in a chilling blaze of fire, blood and poisonous fog." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "Even when the film's concept gets tired after the first act, it is still a stylish, atmospheric work of a solid craftsman." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
B+ | "A tense and terrifying trip through urban chaos, 28 Weeks Later is Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's respectable follow-up to Danny's Boyle's original." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
| "And so as the world seemingly renews its dedication to taking itself straight to hell, even our horror movies suddenly seem less like mere entertainments and more like real-life fever dreams..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo provides a relentlessly tense pace that eerily captures the unpredictability of the zombie attacks. When it was over, I walked out of the theater with frayed nerves." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "Confirms that a Fox Atomic-produced horror sequel need not be technically clumsy, stupid, crass and fright-free." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
3.5/5 | "The first half of 28 Weeks Later is highly enjoyable, assuming you find things like cowardice, official incompetence, and nihilistic visions of the future entertaining." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "Even better than the first film, generating more consistent characters and keeping us thoroughly entertained from grisly start to creep-out finish." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "This sequel takes its predecessor's derivative, remorseless premise and deepens it a bit, though I can't be alone in wondering why this, of all things, should be a franchise." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
| "Suggests the kind of fable as might be shared from generation to generation, albeit in its own nerve-racking, nihilistic way of directing these metaphors into our psyche." |
| Projection Booth |
| Rob Humanick |
C+ | "28 Weeks Later holds itself to the same standards as its brilliant predecessor, but those very standards also accentuate its shortcomings." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
D | "A well-crafted, well-acted, but thoroughly unpleasant, depressing, pointless, irritating and non-entertaining movie." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B- | "...you won't be bored." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4/5 | "A damn worthy follow-up to an unexpectedly excellent chiller." |
| FEARnet |
| Scott Weinberg |
7/10 | "Gruesome and suspenseful, it could be interpreted as timely commentary on U.S. overconfidence in Iraq." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
9/10 | "Scarier and more visceral than anything I've seen in a long while." |
| Antagony & Ecstasy |
| Tim Brayton |
4/4 | "The first great surprise of 2007." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
2/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
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OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh |
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