28 Days Later is in my top ten of my all-time favorite films. It's just perfect in every way a horror fan needs it to be, and while it was recently topped by The Sadness, it still stands as the pinnacle of the infected sub-genre of horror films. This movie wants to be so much like 28DL, but it ends up being the Vegan option. Bland, flavorless, and ultimately, unsatisfying.
Everything about this movie will remind you about 28DL, from the aerial shots of the city to the metal soundtrack. (At one point I thought the same soundtrack was being used in this movie, it was so similar!) Where 28DL had a likeable cast, this movie has some pretty unlikable characters, with back stories that just make you like them even less. I won't go into details here, as I just didn't care enough about the characters to make a clear note for this review. I'll just say that they made sympathizing with them really difficult, and what's a horror movie if you don't care about the fates of the characters themselves?
The movie wasn't particularly scary, and even with some jump scares, it really fails to illicit anything other than mild curiosity. Where will this movie go? Will it end like so many of these movies end? Will it be another Infected movie with a happy ending (my biggest pet peeve in horror), or will they actually do something unique.
Well, gentlemen and ladies, this movie is exactly what you expect from the worst the sub-genre has to offer. Even the "twist" in the infection was lame. Literally, nothing about this movie will be herald as advancing the genre in any palpable way. It will only be thought of as "another zombie movie'. In the end, that's really the best thing anyone can say about it.
If you're a fan of zombie movies or the infected sub-genre, do yourself the favor and forget this exists. You will not be missing anything you couldn't find by re-watching better films.
