28 Weeks Later

Okay, first thing first. This movie - 28 Weeks Later - was not my idea at all. Alex rented it, so I watched it with him while I was doing some ironing. Multitasking is my speciality after all. But gosh, what a horrid and stupid movie it was.

Never had my intelligence been repeatedly insulted so much during the course of a movie. And this one was flawed through and through. The thing is, it actually did fairly well in the box office. I wonder why. Are moviegoers so gullible they'll just gobble up whatever that's offered to them?

I remember avoiding watching it because I read a review in which the reviewer stated "Don't worry. Everyone in this movie was so stupid they all deserved to die!" And he was right, 100%.

Here are some examples of the movie's stupidity.

1. Why would people return to a country devasted by a deadly virus so soon even though it was declared safe? Shouldn't they wait at least 10 years instead of 28 weeks?

2. How could two kids slip out of a restricted zone so easily? The zone was closely guarded by highly trained soldiers.

3. The kids' escape was noted but the authorities took hours to locate them (after they happily cruised around London before going back to their old home). How could that be?

4. How could their mother survive so long and how on earth did she find her way home after being bitten by one of those infected by the rage virus?

5. How could their father have such an easy access to their mother's restricted chamber (after she was completely decontaminated and disinfected and restrained) even though he was a caretaker of the building? Where were the guards? Where were the surveilance cameras? Don't they have these sorts of things when they keep people with crucial information or special abilities (The doctor taking care of her believed that she was a carrier of the rage virus who might be able to help produce a vaccine for the disease)?

6. Why did the kids' father have to kiss his wife knowing that she was definitely infected with the rage virus? That was the stupidest thing anyone could've done! The virus spreads through saliva and blood. So bingo! After the kiss, he turned into one of those rage monsters and started a killing spree.

7. Why wasn't the chamber occupied by the survivor/wife/mother monitored at all?? Surely after the man turned violent and started banging things and killing his wife, something would've triggered something to alert the authorities. But no, they had to wait until he got out and started spreading the rage virus that they took action - of course, it was too late by then.

I stopped watching by then, because I had finished my ironing chores. I just knew that the two stupid kids who started the whole thing actually survived the ordeal. They ought to be shot.

Anyway, it's just a stupid movie. Glad I got some chores done while "watching" it. I heard there may be a sequel called 28 Months Later. You can count on me not watching it.