Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Now Playing: 28 Weeks Later

This is the best sequel I’ve seen in a long time. Or, maybe purest is a better way to say it. This movie cleanly picks up where the first movie left off, delivers a streamlined, terrifying chain of events that really make sense and leads us effortlessly to the undoubted three-quel.

By the same token, I guess, you could make the case that the movie is kind of slight, it doesn’t amplify the world of the first movie in the way, say, Aliens trumped Alien. It’s merely another episode in the continuing rage epidemic. But God in his heaven was never happier he isn’t crawling around in the mud with us than when the frenzied horde comes a-calling in the opening sequence.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

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