Wow. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later is spot on. The tone matches the original, and it does not retread the same territory covered by Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. It is 6 months later mark with London being slowly repopulated under the supervision of the US Army. Snipers dot the roofs of every building in the “Green Zone” in the case of a new outbreak of the Rage Virus, the disease that instantly turns humans into brainless cannibals.

Robert Carlyle is Don, a survivor who’s teenage daughter and tweenage son were not in the country during the outbreak. Their reunion is emotional and hopeful until he has to tell them their mother died in an attack by the infected (don’t call the zombies!) while they were hiding out in the country. They don’t take that well, nor do they like being locked up in the Green Zone, so they do what any kid would do: escape and explore London on their own. Hilarity ensues in the forms of violent military action, fountains of blood, massive carnage, heroic sacrifices, and dark tunnels strewn with decayed human remains.

‘Nuff said. Go see it now!!!