As some new arrivals disembark at City Airport and are processed by Yank troops (“The U.S. In fact, the only infection-free area of the country is a heavily fortified area in east London’s Docklands quarter, now dubbed District 1 Security Zone. Twenty-four weeks later, “reconstruction” began. Eleven weeks later, a U.S.-led NATO force entered London 18 weeks later, Britain was declared “free” of infection. Socko opening is followed by captions filling in the background: 15 days after the original outbreak, mainland Britain was quarantined 28 days later, the population was destroyed by the rage virus. In a mixture of confusion and cowardice, Don escapes, leaving Alice, in a creepy final image, for zombie dinner. Shadowy, claustrophobic start is abruptly shattered - in an explosion of daylight, noise and gnashing teeth - as a pack of zombies break in and start to chow down. Then, in a surprise encounter typical of the movie’s low-key humor, they come across the house’s owners and another refugee, Jacob (Shahid Ahmed). We hear their kids were luckily sent abroad just before the virus outbreak. With no reference to the original or its characters, “28 Weeks Later” starts in medias res as a couple, Don Harris (Robert Carlyle) and Karen (Emily Beecham), scavenge inside a gloomy house for food. Joffe, son of helmer Roland, has already scored a local rep with scripts for Pawel Pawlikowski’s gritty immigrant drama “Last Resort” and cheeky no-budget docudrama “Gas Attack.” It’s to the credit of Boyle and Garland (serving here as exec producers) that they’ve let Fresnadillo and his team of Spanish writers, along with Brit scribe Rowan Joffe, off the sequel leash and allowed them to go for it. Where the Danny Boyle-helmed, Alex Garland-scripted original had the feel of a genre movie progressively trapped by its non-genre ambitions, “Weeks” knows exactly where it’s going from itsknockout first reel.
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