28 Weeks Later Critic Reviews
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A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement.Read the full review
As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.Read the full review
28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.Read the full review
A full-bore zombie romp that more than delivers the genre goods.Read the full review
There's no better fun for movie lovers than a small, unheralded film that turns out to be terrific -- unless it's a small, unheralded sequel that trumps the original.Read the full review
The script is biting and timely.Read the full review
Under Fresnadillo's assured direction, 28 Weeks Later blurs the line between genre entertainment and a photojournalist's shots of the next urban catastrophe.Read the full review
Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.Read the full review
The first hour of this lean, mean, 95-minute scream machine is so tasty that it redeems the predictable conclusion.Read the full review
28 Weeks Later lacks the streamlined thrust of its predecessor but makes for compelling, adrenaline-fueled viewing just the same.Read the full review