Pun Salad

As part of my preparation for seeing 28 Years Later, I felt I should perform due diligence and review its predecessors. It's a good thing, too, because while my blog assures me that I watched this movie in a theater back in 2007, I remembered even less about this than I did about 28 Days Later.

Reviewing my report from back then, I note I was pretty spoiler-averse about the plot. After 18 years, I think it's safe to reveal a tad more. An opening act reveals Don (Robert Carlyle) as a cowardly weasel, abandoning his wife to the virus-infected horde, barely escaping with his life.

But then, months later, all the "zombies" on Great Britain have (finally) starved to death, and reconstruction/repopulation is under way. The first group to re-inhabit includes Don's kids, who were fortunately away in Spain during the zombie apocalypse. A joyous reunion, marred by the fact that Don lies about the cowardice that doomed their mom. They get resettled into a nice, secure, apartment, guarded by snipers like Jeremy Renner. But the kids miss their old place, sneak out of their enclave, and discover… hey, Mom's still alive! But not exactly herself!

One major quibble: the resulting carnage is actually all the fault of those darn disobedient kids. Nobody seems to blame them, though, and they don't seem to be wracked by guilt. Someone should have given them a good talking to!

At my age, I often fall asleep while watching movies at home. Not a problem with this one.