Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Oct 11, 2025

[Director] Fresnadillo drives the scenes of zombie mayhem with a jumpy camera and a fractured editing style that adds a sense of panic to the chaos, as if seen through the terror-stricken perspective of an adrenaline-laced bystander.

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Noah Berlatsky Everything is Horrible (Substack) Sep 2, 2025

Screenwriter Alex Garland’s willingness to get weirder and more mean-spirited in his follow-up is an unusual and admirable choice.

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Andrew Dignan In Review Online Jun 20, 2025

Stranger, more diffuse, and less wedded to conventional notions of realism and regularly occurring jump scares than its predecessors... [although] no film in recent memory has been more deserving of an “incomplete” grade.

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Sarah Vincent Sarah G Vincent Views Jun 20, 2025

“28 Weeks Later” would have been better if it was a prequel to the far superior “28 Days Later” (2003) or a horror movie in a vacuum, but as a sequel, it is shit.

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Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 22, 2023 3/5

Avoids treading familiar territory or attempts at replicating the first film's success, instead going bigger and bolder, though still never reaches the heights of the initial entry.

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Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Aug 27, 2022 4/5

The story moves at a frantic pace with tension and intensity playing bigger roles than genuine horror movie scares.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Feb 26, 2022 3/4

The sequel's pandemic-facing conclusion has less faith in institutions than the original, making for a bleak, if urgent experience.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Oct 8, 2020 3/4

This sequel, directed by the much more imaginative Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto, Intruders), takes the zombie invasion in a new, grim direction.

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Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb 28, 2020

Are you starting to see that the allegorical nature of the zombie movie has made an impressive come-back in 28 Weeks Later? Bless its heart, Fresnadillo's film is best enjoyed-by me, at least-as an indictment of the American quagmire in Iraq.

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Alex Gordon Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 23, 2019

It's films like this that underline why zombie movies have such staying power.

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 3/4

Intelligently executed, having the integrity to be about the story rather than the cheap thrills.

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Funmi Sunmonu Add This To Your List Oct 19, 2018

I like smart storytelling, and this was really interesting...fresh and realistic.

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Megan Basham WORLD Oct 16, 2018

Calling it an unadulterated exercise in nihilism might be an understatement.

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Brandy McDonnell The Oklahoman Aug 14, 2018 2/4

While 28 Days Later is undeniably violent and bloody, the sequel revels in pouring on extra gore.

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Scott Weinberg TheHorrorShow Aug 28, 2015

A damn worthy follow-up to an unexpectedly excellent chiller.

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Jeffrey Lyles Lyles' Movie Files Jun 22, 2013 7/10

Isn't the same thinking man's zombie film as its predecessor, but it ramps up the action and will leave you on edge enough that you'll be searching for a nightlight before going to sleep.

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Wesley Morris Boston Globe Nov 24, 2011 1/4

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Cliff Doerksen Time Out Nov 18, 2011 5/5

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 17, 2011 4/5

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Jeff Meyers Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Nov 6, 2010 B

With its expertly paced thrills, unrelenting terror and apocalyptic despair, 28 Weeks Later ain't a bad roller coaster to ride.

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