Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) prepare dinner for their group of survivors in a heavily reinforced cottage somewhere in rural Britain; it is one of the areas affected by the "Rage" virus in the previous film. As they eat their meal, they suddenly hear a young boy banging on the door begging to be let in. Alice opens the door to let the child inside, who says he has been fleeing the "Infected". Moments later, a pack of the Infected discover the hideout and break in, quickly overwhelming the group. Alice refuses to leave without the boy; a panicked Don abandons Alice, his wife and escapes in a boat, emerging as the sole survivor.

Over the course of 28 weeks, Britain is declared relatively safe again and an American-led NATO force, (primarily consisting of Rangers and 82nd Airborne) begins repopulating the country. Chief medical officer Major Scarlet Ross (Rose Byrne) is startled by the sudden arrival of children. Among the children are Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton), Don and Alice's children who were in Spain during the initial outbreak. At only 12 years old, Andy is the youngest person in Britain. During their subsequent medical inspection, Scarlet notes Andy's heterochromia, a trait he inherited from his mother. Andy and Tammy are subsequently admitted to District 1, a heavily-reinforced, fully functional section of London in the Docklands guarded by the United States Army, including Sergeant Doyle (Jeremy Renner) and helicopter pilot Flynn (Harold Perrineau). They are reunited with their father Don, who is now head caretaker of the district. Inside their new penthouse, Don tearfully recounts his escape, revealing that Alice was killed by the Infected. The next day, the two children slip out of the safe zone to return to their old home, where Andy discovers Alice, disheveled but alive. Andy and Tammy are recaptured by the US Army while Alice is decontaminated. A blood test reveals that she is infected with the Rage virus, but not displaying any symptoms, labeling her a carrier, as evidenced by her bloodshot eye. Though Scarlet wants to keep Alice alive to seek a cure, she is overruled by her superior.

Don visits his children in a holding room, where they question him about Alice being alive. He then visits Alice in her isolation cell, and asks for forgiveness. After they kiss, the Rage virus in her saliva infects him. Now an Infected, he brutally kills her and goes on the prowl in District 1, attacking and infecting soldiers. The outbreak forces the area into lockdown, but not in time to prevent Don from forcing his way into the safe room, where he begins to kill and infect the confined civilians. Scarlet rescues Tammy and Andy from containment, fleeing together as chaos spreads to the streets. Doyle and the soldiers are ordered to shoot the Infected, but the chaos escalates into an extermination of the populace. He abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet and the children as District 1 is incinerated by napalm. Meanwhile, large numbers of the Infected escape the bombardment, occupying the city.

Stopping at the derelict remains of Regent's Park, Scarlet informs Doyle that the key to curing infection is in the children, who may have the same immune system as their mother. Flynn arrives by helicopter to pick up Doyle, but refuses to take anyone else. The infected appear and pursue the group, forcing them to flee. To aid their escape, Flynn uses his helicopter rotor blades to kill dozens of Infected before leaving, designating Wembley Stadium as the new rendezvous point. The group breaks into an abandoned car to escape the infected and the clouds of poisonous gas being vented into the city. In the process of starting the car, Doyle is killed by soldiers with NBC suits and flamethrowers. Scarlet drives into the London Underground to evade a pursuing AH-64 Apache, where she and the children continue on foot, guiding their way with the night-vision scope on Doyle's rifle. When they are separated, Scarlet is ambushed and killed by Don, who attacks Andy and bites him. Tammy shoots Don and saves Andy, who remains symptom-free like his mother. The children continue to Wembley Stadium and are picked up by a reluctant Flynn, who flies them across the English Channel and out of Britain, to France.

Another 28 days later, a group of Infected run through a subway tunnel through the Palais de Chaillot towards the Eiffel Tower.







Angela's review: I loved the first hour or so! It was interesting to imagine repopulating an area that had been biologically decimated. The military presence, the behavior of the general population, the timeline (last zombie found 5 weeks after the start of the outbreak, reuse of the area less than 5 months later for civilians) were all very cool. The tortured Dad bit was a bit perplexing - it's like the director was trying to create an anchor character out of that zombie, when everyone knows that the undead are most terrifying in large anonymous masses. The second hour was pretty much what you expect.

Wookiejuice's Review: I must say that I enjoyed not only the first hour, but the whole thing! I found it to have more fast paced action than 28 Days Later, which I personally think is great to have in any action/suspense/horror movie. This made me enjoy Weeks better than Days. I thought the premise of certain people being immune to the virus both interesting, and more realistic. What I also enjoyed, was the Dad character. Through him we get a glimpse of what I would say, is an evolved rage virus.

By "evolved", I mean, he's not a mindless "rager". He thinks, and plans, and has self preservation thoughts too. Thus, he is an even more dangerous enemy than regular infected. Now, for the sequel (28 Months Later, anyone?), perhaps we'll see crowds of evolved infected. This would ante things up quite dramatically.

So, with more action, faster pacing, and interesting premises, I thought this was the better of the 2 "non-zombie" zombie films.

Residentmagnum review of 28 weeks later: It was much better than 28 days later. There was more character development than in the weeks rather than in days. There was even tried to make the veiwer feel for the monster like land of the the dead with the gas station zombie. If a sequal is made I would like to see a cure or a way to be a carrier with out being a monster or another type of treatment. Yes Europe is a nice set of islands and a small continet but why no have a sample get loose in another country or a global effect on the world. In both movies these monster only belong to England. What the rest of us are worth eating? a silly question but really. And if these creatures were just one England why not just send over enough ICBM's (intercontonental ballist missle (nuclear weapons)) to get the job done.

There is always room for improvement. My finally though keep making more rage zombies. rate the movie as a 3 / 5

white_raven23 review of 28 weeks later: On the surface, 28 weeks later is an okay rage epidemic film (those are not zombies), BUT upon closer examination, the film just doesn't hold water. The partial immunity/carrier angle was a great idea, except the rules established in BOTH films gets broken. When mom is discovered, she has a single neat little bite mark scar on her arm...when last we saw her she was in a teeny room with 4 ragers breaking in. Okay...here is the "rule" about the ragers that was already established. THEY IGNORE EACH OTHER. So I can totally see the ragers in the teeny room going after her until she was partially "infected" and then ignoring her completely, or even kinda ignoring her, enough for her to get away without missing bigger chunks. That would have been fine... it would have made more sense. Except later for the sole purpose of angst and ironic tragedy, she's killed by her raging husband. You cannot have it BOTH ways! Either she gets away from the FOUR ragers in the tiny room because they totally ignore her after she becomes a carrier (meaning her husband has to ignore her too), or she really needs to be a lot more scarred up when she is found. And more physical injury would have been fine, she already had the mental injury going and it would have fit.
And the deal where rager dad is following his kids and deliberately targeting them? Nonsense. Without establishing viral "evolution" via the military scientists prior in the film, it cannot just be assumed that dear old dad just "happens" to have self-preservation ability, the cognition to use CARD LOCKS, and the abiltiy to specifically target and track his family like a heat seeking missile? Come on. They just did it for drama without setting up the proper plot-points to cover it or explain how it could be possible.
And as a final point, those two dumb kids shouldn't have made it beyond the pizza parlor. What did the military decide to do? Take a nap after they heard the report of kids crossing over into unauthorized territory? All for a picture. Would it have been so hard to ask dad if he had a picture of mommy in his wallet before doing something completely stupid around people with the authorization to kill you on sight with little cause? Why didn't the kids smear themselves with ketchup and run screaming down the middle of the bridge while they were being stupid?
There are other ways the rage virus could have re-emerged. This was just poorly thought out. I give it a 2/5.