Just got back from seeing this. Phenomenal movie, every bit as good as the first.
kind of unconventionally paced, in a good way. Lots of it did not flow or go how I expected it to from what was seen in trailers.
Pretty much all of our leads are fairly likeable. The soldier isn't, but he plays a smaller part than I expected from the trailers, and I think mostly just served as a way for them to get the baby without the son of mother killing the infected mother.
I really liked the subversion of the mad doctor trope from many zombie or apocalypse stories. Sure he's a bit odd to create his art piece, but he is grounded in reality, is trying to do good in the world, AMD trying not to cause harm, even to the infected. While still being smart, capable and grounded.
I think they may have retconed one of my big issues from 28 weeks later. In that one the father infected doesn't behave quite like the other infected, stalking and hanging back sometimes, as well as seemingly displaying more intelligence. Hated it at the time, as it didn't seem to fit. This movie shows us and explains the "alphas" though, which more or less fit in with that. I imagine they are going to go with the idea that virus spread from the partially immune mother in that one, was a mutated variant due to her immunity. This mutated variant allows for alphas, that retain a bit more intelligence and control, as well as infected that are better at self preservation and finding food, as in the first film they pretty much all died of starvation since they didn't eat. In the beging of this one, we see a child "infected" that runs away, and then we also have the baby born to the infected towards the end. The Doc says he doesn't think it got infected because of the placenta, but I'm betting these 2nd generation "infected" are born immune. I don't think the child infected in the begining was truly "infected" but just a child born to them and raised by them, that is why they ran away instead of attacking.
I know they talked about wanting to do a trilogy starting with this one. If i had to guess we are going to get 28 Months later, and 28 hours later filmed back to back. This would allow them to keep the actor for Spike the right age, and deal with a plot of the baby being the answer to a cure/immunity. The next sequel would pick up close to 2 years later with him being a part of the gang that has probably been being a bad influence, with a new surrogate father leading him into immortality, and his real dad looking to find him and reconcile that would end on a cliff hanger, and then the third picking up right after.
Pretty much all of our leads are fairly likeable. The soldier isn't, but he plays a smaller part than I expected from the trailers, and I think mostly just served as a way for them to get the baby without the son of mother killing the infected mother.
I really liked the subversion of the mad doctor trope from many zombie or apocalypse stories. Sure he's a bit odd to create his art piece, but he is grounded in reality, is trying to do good in the world, AMD trying not to cause harm, even to the infected. While still being smart, capable and grounded.
I think they may have retconed one of my big issues from 28 weeks later. In that one the father infected doesn't behave quite like the other infected, stalking and hanging back sometimes, as well as seemingly displaying more intelligence. Hated it at the time, as it didn't seem to fit. This movie shows us and explains the "alphas" though, which more or less fit in with that. I imagine they are going to go with the idea that virus spread from the partially immune mother in that one, was a mutated variant due to her immunity. This mutated variant allows for alphas, that retain a bit more intelligence and control, as well as infected that are better at self preservation and finding food, as in the first film they pretty much all died of starvation since they didn't eat. In the beging of this one, we see a child "infected" that runs away, and then we also have the baby born to the infected towards the end. The Doc says he doesn't think it got infected because of the placenta, but I'm betting these 2nd generation "infected" are born immune. I don't think the child infected in the begining was truly "infected" but just a child born to them and raised by them, that is why they ran away instead of attacking.
I know they talked about wanting to do a trilogy starting with this one. If i had to guess we are going to get 28 Months later, and 28 hours later filmed back to back. This would allow them to keep the actor for Spike the right age, and deal with a plot of the baby being the answer to a cure/immunity. The next sequel would pick up close to 2 years later with him being a part of the gang that has probably been being a bad influence, with a new surrogate father leading him into immortality, and his real dad looking to find him and reconcile that would end on a cliff hanger, and then the third picking up right after.
