Sunday, November 2, 2008

The 28 Later series. 28 Months Later?? 28 Years Later??

The 28 Later proved to be a big accomplishment in the zombie/end of times, movie world. The zombies are more ruthless, faster, more toxic, and scary as hell. The 28 Later series starts with a group of animal activists letting loose a chimpanzee infected with "the rage virus"(those wacky scientists, those wacky activists.) The chimpanzee then after infected the activist group and it was all downhill from there.

The first movie in the series 28 Days later reflected on what happened during the initial outbreak. It takes you on a journey with a guy named Jim who wakes up from a coma in a hospital 28 days after the outbreak. Jim then meets Selena and Mark, 2 people who have been on the run the whole time while Jim was in the coma. Selena and Mark seem to have adapted to their new surroundings and have many precautions they take while moving around the infected city. Poor Mark ends up dieing, which leaves Jim and Selena alone. Later Mark and Selena meet Frank and his young teen daughter Hannah who let them use their house as shelter. The next morning, the group of 4 decides to follow to direction of a radio signal that is being broadcast from a military base, speaking of food, shelter, and safety. On the trip there old Frank has an accident(stupid bird) and ends up being infected, then killed. Jim, Selena, an Hannah finally make their way to the military base, only to shortly find out that the men at the military base want to sexually assault Selena and young Hannah. Jim finding this out tries to do something about it, but, is captured and is sent to be killed. Jim manages to escape, but, his escape is over the wall and into the rage infected zombie areas. The men at the base then set up an afternoon to where they would wine dine and then most like molest Selena and Hannah, but, things don't go their way. Selena and Hannah manage to escape with the help of Jim and a few zombies hes let in. The three of them make it out safely, and the movie ends with the three of them seeing a plane and it circles back around as if to pick them up.

28 Weeks Later, the next movie in the series, takes place(as if you didn't know) 28 weeks later(and if you didn't ::smack::.) In the country nearby London, Don, his wife Alice and a few survivors live hidden in a farmhouse. When infected people break in the house, Dan panics and does not help his wife to escape, running away and leaving Alice trapped inside the room. Twenty eight weeks after the outbreak that annihilated the population of Great Britain, London is considered safe and the British survivors return under the coordination of the American Army, that keeps the city under permanent surveillance. The teenager Tammy and her younger brother Andy travel back from Spain to live with their father Don in London. They miss their mother and decide to escape to their old house to retrieve pictures and some other personal belongings. However, they find Alice surprisingly alive and the Army brings her to the base. After some blood test, the biologist Scarlet discovers that Alice is a carrier of the lethal virus and somehow has immunity to it. Meanwhile, Don sneaks through the facility to say how sorry he is to Alice, who forgives him. When he kisses her, he is immediately contaminated, spreading a new epidemic. The soldiers who are surveying the area are given orders to fire on everyone, and the area is even blown up. In the end only Tammy, Andy(who is infected like his mother but remains human), and a soldier named Flynn(played by the wheelchair dude from Oz.) make it out alive.

Now most people didn't like 28 Weeks Later, but, they're fagots. The biggest complaint is that the sequel didn't feature the same characters as the original. But, doing so, can lead to really good things. If they do make a 28 Months Later movie(which I've heard they are making for a 2009 release,) they could use again, a different set of characters. 3 movies, 3 different sets of people. Then, they could make the finale to the Quadrilogy with 28 Years Later and then bring all 3 sets of characters together somehow and end it with no loose ends.

I'm hoping that this series will go far, I've enjoyed it.

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