The creative team of Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, and Andrew Macdonald are back to re-invent the zombie movie yet again with the sequel to 28 Days Later. Lead by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 28 Weeks Later picks up six months after the Rage virus has d

Just as frequently as Hollywood keeps cranking out sequels, they crank out plenty of zombie movies. The creatures in Danny Boyle¡¯s ¡°28 Days Later¡± weren¡¯t really zombies, but infected humans driven by a ¡°rage¡± virus. The film worked because it¡¯s DV imagery gave it a low budget documentary style and the real monsters were humans driven to barbarism rather than the ¡°zombies¡± themselves. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo¡¯s ¡°28 Weeks Later¡± also tries to show that humans under extreme circumstances can be driven to barbaric tactics ¨C in this case a military trying to squash an epidemic through extermination ¨C but much of the humanity that was present in the original has given way to stylistic camera work of the music video variety. Robert Carlyle (who broke through in Boyle¡¯s ¡°Trainspotting¡± a decade ago) opens the prologue as a Londoner who cowardly abandons wife Catherine MacCormack when the farmhouse they¡¯re hiding in is attacked by a horde of those zombies. Cut to several weeks later and seven months after the initial outbreak, Britain is under quarantine by an American led NATO military force. A so-called ¡°green zone¡± has been established and as re-population slowly begins, Carlyle awaits the arrival of his kids Mackintosh Muggleton and Imogen Poots. As as far as they know, their mother was slaughtered by a zombie hoard, but Carlyle still has difficulty hiding his guilt. Though the last of the infected died from starvation months before the military arrived, citizens are consistently tested and screened. Among the military sect is physician Rose Bryne, forboding commander Ildris Elba, sniper Jeremy Renner and helicopter pilot Harold Perineau. There wouldn¡¯t be a movie if the infection were not to spread again followed by complete chaos, but how it occurs is rather stupid so if you don¡¯t want to be spoiled scroll to the bottom.