28 weeks later...
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Saw it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I thought it still smelled indie and British and still had its quiet 'European', existential moments (the numerous lingering pans over empty vistas). It handled the whole American-aspect brilliantly (who else would you expect to run the country after we've destroyed it?).
My only complaints would be a couple of illogical leaps (as required, I guess) and coincidences and one scene* which could've been beautiful, but wasn't quite.
Basically - it's a gorier 28 days with a bigger budget, bigger explosions and ever-so-slightly Hollywoodised sheen, but in no bad way.
* slight spoiler ahead..
the scene where they put the civilians in the basement could have been a beautiful sustained gore shot - horror's coup de grace - if they'd just dealt with the wave a bit better. That was supposed to be 15000 people, trapped like stricken rodents in a bucket of pure evil - instead it was a bit comic book, a bit frame by frame. Still - good stuff.
Oh, and Robert Carlyle as a panicked coward? Brilliant.