We saw 28 Weeks Later at Dendy in Newtown last night.

Surprisingly, this is a pretty good sequal. The gore level has been upped considerably, but it’s helped along by some great actors (Robert Carlyle is great, as always, and Rose Byrne is pretty good too). There’s an unexpected twist early on that sets up the basic conundrum for the film (does "for better or worse, in sickness and in health" cover zombie virus outbreaks?), and an homage to the lawnmower scene in Braindead multiplied by 100.

This was a pretty scary film, almost as good as the first one. Certainly good enough to forgive it the odd predictable plot twist.