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28 Weeks Later does the seemingly impossible and out thrills and entertains it's already good predecessor...It suffers from some flaws in it's writing, and some contrived plotting, but it handles the horror and visceral thrills so well and so unpredictably that these flaws are easily over looked...
Not a fan of the overly hand-held, kenetic camera work but oddly enough I could stiill manage to see everything that was going on...
The problem with the writing is that unlike the first film which really felt like it was telling a story, this one feels more like it's using story to push the action forward as means to an end...It's inciting incident and then chase sequence after chase sequence...Which is fine because this movie is intense as hell...
I won't get into the plot contrivances specifically, but would it kill writers to NOT have people separate for no good reason?
So while 28 Days Later has a better story overall, 28 Weeks Later has more thrills, gore, and intensity...Which is fine by me.
9/10
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