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Message: <blockquote data-quote="awayfarer" data-source="post: 3536766" data-attributes="member: 42702">28 Weeks LaterLots of spoilers below! I posted most of this in my LJ last night after Merkuri and I got back from watching this movie. Has anyone else seen it? It's not the worst film in the world but waht really kills it for me is we as viewers have to assume a heroic level of incompetence for the plot to work out the way it does. Anyhow, here's a list of complaints. I think a number of them will only make sense if you've seen the movie.Again, beyond here there be spoilers.--Where were the kids precisely? France? America? Mars?--Two kids manage to slip by all that security?--Gasp! I'm horrified, just not enough to stop me from looting this corpse!--A moped that hasn't been used in seven months will start up immediately without any problems. (Apparently part of the virus causes people to periodically start up mopeds so that the batteries don't run down.)--British civilians are given access cards to American military bases (I don't care what he was in charge of, I find his having complete access to EVERYTHING rather implausible)--Wait wait wait, they've told you your wife is alive, thereby they must have told you that she's got the virus. Why are you bringing yourself into contact with her? Visiting I could maybe....maybe see, but kissing someone you (presumably) know to be infected?--She's so important that there are no guards anywhere and no one watching the room, not even on camera?--Wait, what happened to the 6 or 7 armed guards headed down to the sickroom? Did Dad manage to kill all of them?--Merkuri mentioned this; why is everyone being herded into a room and locked up while there is another, easy to break through (apparently) exit? (Hi dad!)--Why are they switching to emergency lighting? It's not like there was any reason to cut the power.--Why are they locking mobs of people away in one tightly confined space? Doing this makes it very easy for one infected to create dozens more. Lock everyone away singly, say, in their rooms and then infected folks have to go about things one or two at a time and break down dozens of doors to do so. You've shown earlier that it is possible to lock down doors, was that just confined to ONE revolving door on the first floor or something?--(Also suggested by Merkuri) Furthermore, was there no planning for how to distinguish an infected from a non-infected? Tell the non-infect to run with their hands held stiffly above their head or something. The infected will not do so and will be easy to distinguish.--Wait a minute, so now dad is tailing them or something? Why did he not attack? They always attack, thats the idea. They cannot control the urge to kill.--How did the infection spread so far? Did none of the other groups that were locked down manage to remain so? Again, we have to assume military incompetence for this to work.--Now that they've had time to sit a spell, why has no one bothered to ask about or clean off the blood on the kid?--People in military uniforms will shoot other people in military uniforms...with flamethrowers. (Bye bye Doyle) Wouldn't automatically, unquestioningly opening fire on people in uniforms make things difficult?Example:Military HQ: Guys, kill and immolate everyone you see on the ground.Cleanup Team 1: You heard em'. Quick get those guys in uniform!Cleanup Team 2: S**t! Stop you idiots!Furthermore, if I saw someone I though was infected I'm not going to use the flamethrower first. Think of it, theres still a little time between them getting roasted and actually dying. Using the flamethrower means that instead of having an angry maniac you now have a flaming angry maniac. You now have to try and pull a guy on fire off of you. (Which never happens, just citing it as an example of incompetence.)--Why is it that the night vision scope on the sniper rifle can only see 4 feet ahead all of a sudden? The soldiers on the rooftops could see several hundred feet away with them last night.--Where did the kid go? I sure as hell wouldn't have run off if I had just fallen down a flight of stairs in the dark. Wouldn't his sister have fallen on top of him?--Wait, they encounter dad AGAIN!? Where in the hell does he keep coming from!?--You're not taking the rifle?--So she never mentions that her brother was bitten, why? The kid never mentions it? The helicoptor pilot never asks if they're hurt?--Where are they heading?--Okay, the coptor is clearly down. So either...1: They managed to get withing a very short distance of touchdown (presumably on the continent) and the kids turns and bites the pilot, leading to a short crash. Things quickly get out of hand. We have to assume that the pilot never contacts anyone of his situation or if he does, that no one takes any precautions for when they land.2: They land safely on the continent, the kids and the pilot are scrubbed down but for some random reason are not kept contained. All hell breaks loose again. The heli is shown as is "just cuz." Consumption of croissants takes a nose dive.--Great, so presumably the entire planet is screwed. Thank you for killing not only everyone on earth but by extension, also the survivors of the last film. Jerks.</blockquote>

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