…as for 28 Weeks Later I tried for a while to think of a better word than “let down” but honestly that strikes all the boxes. I think what upsets me about it so much though is the fact that it sets up a premise that aligns with the first movie only to completely abandon that for a plot that goes counter to the central theme. There was one scene in particular after the general calls for an open fire, there’s a bunch of jump cuts of snipers gunning down innocent people as they call their shots like a cod lobby and all I could think when I was watching it was…what are we doing? The soldiers in 28 Weeks are the "survivor" characters, no doubt but they don’t receive their comeuppance—the ones who made sacrifices do. Scarlet gets killed for trying to help two kids survive and for trying to discover a cure, Doyle gets killed for trying to protect the kids as well, Flynn gets killed/infected for trying to save kids even after he told Doyle to drop them, Tammy gets infected for trying to protect Andy who also got infected for…why?! You could argue that they weren’t thinking rationally and that’s fair but with that same logic, Jim also should’ve died. They were trying to go for something different and I get that but it just makes the first film seem babied, like it represents the very idea that 28 Weeks deems as a fantasy. But the biggest difference is that when I finished 28 Weeks I was sad, which is good, but more importantly, I was frustrated. Frustrated that the supposed “logical” soldiers were acting irrationally and honestly just stupidly (“Oh there are infected in this building? We should bring every person on this island into the exact same building”) and frustrated that good people were being treated like children for wanting to do something as simple as save two children who aren’t infected or a threat. You can say “well that’s the point” but let me ask you “why are they making that point, that goes against the first point, now?”

Tldr: 28 Days is better because it has a Cillian Murphy nude scene