![]() The film loses focus here, becoming one extended chase scene. Even the notoriously trigger happy American military machine would have more of a plan than that surely? That is, apart from one soldier (Jeremy Renner) who attempts to get a bunch of survivors -including Tammy and Andy( Whose importance as potential carriers of the anti-virus is paramount) to safety. Here again the plot loses focus as the military decide on unilateral force to solve the crisis as they arbitrarily slaughter anyone within the zone in order to control the outbreak. A doctor (Rose Byrne) realises how important Alice is to finding a cure for the virus which is how the script derelicts its duty by having this vitally important person left unguarded so her husband can visit her contract the virus and then run amok spreading the rapacious disease, so soon the whole area is swarming with infected. Then Alice startlingly turns up, infected( Remarkably intact to say the last time we saw her saw her she was being ravaged by the infected) but immune to the effects of the virus. Don who has gained a low level job in the zone is re-united with his two children Tammy ( Tammy Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) who were abroad at the time of the rage outbreak. The film then shifts to the Isle Of Dogs in London where the USA military have set up a controlled quarantine zone and are steadily re-populating the area. ![]() This extended scene with the music of God Speed You Black Emperor blaring portentously is incredibly intense and the film never produces any else that comes close to matching it. The infected break in and in a truly visceral sequence as the ravening horde swarm through the house Don abandons his wife and the young boy and flees across a neighbouring field with infected pursuing him, barely escaping with his life. Married couple Don (Robert Carlyle) and Alice (Catherine McCormack) are holed up in this isolated house with other survivors when a fellow survivor-a young boy- brings a horde of the infected which have been chasing him to the site. ![]() It must be stated that the film starts tremendously with a ten minute set piece centred around a remote farmhouse. The end result is a far more committed film in terms of sheer horror than 28 Days Later but one whose suspect plotting leaves it ultimately far less satisfying. Putting that rather spurious argument aside the film seemed to leave little room for a sequel but Danny Boyle, director of the original film lest we forget, had been working on a screenplay but once an acceptable draft had been commissioned turned down the directors role wanting to work on his sci-fi epic "Sunshine".So director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo who helmed 2001 indie hit "Intacto" was given the job -though Danny Boyle did some work as a second unit director. More like particularly committed football hooligans. It also revitalised the stagnant zombie genre, though i feel it's fair to argue that the "infected" are not actually zombies at all. 28 Days Later is certainly one of the most original and effective horror films of the last ten years. ![]()
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