Man.  That movie was way better than I thought it was going to be.  It opens so brutally.  The first 10 minutes are 10 of the best I have seen in any horror film or zombie film.  It is still not technically a zombie film, but as a fan of zombies, I am glad what the 28 films do for the genre.  I love fast zombies.  Still, theses monsters are not undead, so I don’t think they really count.  The thing I love about the Romero zombie films, is that they all made political statements.  Race, consumerism, aids, etc.  This is what the remake of Dawn Of The Dead missed.  Yeah, it was still set in a shopping mall, but it was really just a generic action film.  I enjoyed it, but not on the level of the original Dawn.  28 Weeks later is all about the US Army stationed in Iraq.  The “zombies” are the Iraqi insurgents.  The troops in this film are forced to kill civilians in order to wipe out zombies.  It gives the film a second level that some recent zombie films have lacked.  Anyway, the movie was extremely violent and amazing.  I loved it and it ends well.  Go see it now.

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