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28 Weeks Later
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Review With Spoilers
The major problem I have with 28 Weeks Later is the series of unlikely and unnecessary decisions made in the film.
- Code Red: Once things get out of control the military call a Code Red which means that the soldiers can kill the civilians as well as the infected. This should not mean that the soldiers must kill all civilians, including the uninfected. However this is exactly how the order is treated. The infected are pretty obvious, and when you seen someone jump starting a car, do you really need to burn them alive? Or do you need to try and destroy a car driving down a street? Has there ever been a case where the infected were able to drive a car?
- Poor planning: When the outbreak first reappears, the military takes all the civilians into underground shelters. However the shelters are so badly chosen, that an infected effectively walks through the back door. Should that door maybe have a lock? Once the infection starts spreading through the bunker, the civilians manage to force their way out by bashing down the doors. If they could bash the doors down, then so could the infected. All in all, this seems like a pretty poor place to keep the uninfected. Lets not forget that in a Zombie outbreak, the living are all potential zombies. You need to protect them from the zombies so that the infection cannot spread, and thus make more zombies.
- Breaking the mythology: The story must abide by its own rules. The Rage infected are intelligent in an animalistic way. They attack those they see around them, however it was never that case that they were stealthy or obsessed with particular victims. However that is exactly how the father character is portrayed. Not only does he follow his children around, but he is able to sneak up behind them in the pitch black underground.