28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Weeks Later

Let’s suppose you are a solider in the military like Doyle (Jeremy Renner). Let’s also suppose you set to guard a group of civilians from insurgents intent on killing them like those infected by the Rage Virus (i.e. zombies on steroids). It seems like a fairly straightforward activity. Let’s now suppose that your commanding officer tells you that the barrier has been breached and orders you to shoot those who have broken through like the virally infected have her in this movie. Given the proper circumstances, I’d level my rifle and pop them once I had them in my scope. I imagine most would follow that order. Now suppose, the order came through to kill anything on the ground whether infected or not. Here is where I pause and examine my commitment to the situation. Particularly if I see a kid like Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) or a doctor like Scarlet (Rose Byrne) through the rangefinder and I know neither one is infected. I might tap someone about to rip out their throat but Andy is just a kid who has been reunited with his dad after spending 28 weeks in a camp in Spain with his sister Tammy (Imogen Poots). Doyle feels much the same and decides that saving a life is better karma than taking one.


Director:  Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer:  Rowan Joffe; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo; Jesús Olmo; Enrique López Lavigne
Cast:
Catherine McCormack -  Alice
Robert Carlyle -  Don
Amanda Walker -  Sally
Shahid Ahmed -  Jacob
Garfield Morgan -  Geoff
Emily Beecham -  Karen
Beans El-Balawi -  Boy in Cottage
Jeremy Renner -  Doyle
Harold Perrineau -  Flynn
Rose Byrne -  Scarlet
Imogen Poots -  Tammy
Mackintosh Muggleton -  Andy
Meghan Popiel -  DLR Soldier
Idris Elba -  Stone
Stewart Alexander -  Military Officer
Philip Bulcock -  Senior Medical Officer









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