You just can’t do serious, gritty realism when there are yanks about, as is proved by 28 Weeks later. They are very keen to bring copious amounts of ass-kickery against any infected people. One of my friends has a term for aspects of films like these, which is ‘mong-tribution’; like retribution, but just directed at ‘mongs’, which is his term for any zombie monster type.
There is a fair amount of mongtribution in this film. Some of it good, some not so good. You’ve got some cool M14 sniping action, chopper blade action, gas action, napalm action and good old fashioned crow bar action. We also get an insite into how the American war machine works:
Threat level 1: Colonel – “We’re under threat. Lock everyone in a poorly secured basement.”
Threat level 2: Colonel – “Some people are infected. Kill everyone.”
Threat level 3: Colonel – “I’ve lost the plot. Destroy Wapping.”
I thought it was a pretty good sequel, but it deviated too much from the survival horror that I enjoyed in the first one.