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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 3543345" data-attributes="member: 4682">Spain.The sniper spotted them and notified over radio.She saw she was at a pizza delivery joint. Noticed the keys were not in the mopeds. Reasoned that the keys for the line of delivery mopeds were inside the restaurant. She found the corpse of an employee with a keychain on his belt.Unless they were petrol scooters.Not a base, a civilian resettlement area. Heck, there was the info dump by the female soldier on the train ride to the Isle of Dogs telling everyone what sort of civilian amenities there were. Pubs, restaurants, etc. Not a base.They discovered the wife was still infected much later in the evening. You can assume he was told she was infected, but the movie never showed there was an opportunity from when it was discovered the wife was still infected until the moment his guilt motivates him to visit his wife.That bothered me. But not too much.Yes, the scene of the camera over the father's shoulder showed him munching on soldiers and passing over other corpses.That bothered me.Don't see the problem. Except turning off lights give the soldiers with night-vision a significant advantage.This whole locked into tight quarters bothered me. We heard in the intro's info dump that there were some 15,000 civilians there. I wondered where they all went to while this alert was in effect. Surely not all in the same room.Not so much a big deal, and partly a point of the movie I felt. The infection was supposedly proven to be exausted, all carriers were throught dead from starvation. No transgenic leaping had been discovered so they had all reason to believe the infection was over. Plan for something that shouldn't be possible? Sounds like a moral to the story. Almost like they are obliquely connecting it to recent events.Tailing them? *shrug* we are never given any insight into just what thinking is possible by the infected. Clearly some vestige remains based on the infected father's primal reaction to his wife's eyes, something that deeply haunted him after he ababdoned her. Not so out of bounds to imagine some survival instinct remained that allowed him to stalk his prey. We also say the infected father go so far as to use a tool to bludgeon a   target, the blunt end of the rifle.Civilians have an amazing ability to get places they are forbidden, see the children sneaking out of the quarantine zone.Why? They were fleeing for their lives, priorities like racing from human-eating mobs place hygene at a lower priority.I figured the flamethrowers were around to toast the corpses of the dead infected. The soldier they fired on didn't have a gas mask on, so it was a good bet he was not uninfected. They could have done better explaining why the soldier helping the kids escape didn't have his gas mask on him. In a situation where chemical weapons might be used soldiers are required to have some level of NBC protection near or on them. He should have had his gas mask on him while he was on duty up on the roof top.The ROE could have been better explained. It was less than adequate but the audience were given some insight what Code Red entailed.I may have missed it, but I thought that we saw there was only one flamethrower flanked by two soldiers with M-16s.  Flame away, and if the body keeps coming your buddies get him next.Night vision only enhances ambient light. At night outside there is ambient light from the moon, buildings, etc. In the Metro tunnels the only ambient light, I believe, came from a dim light on the sniper rifle.That bothered the hell out of me!The conveeeeeenience of the events in the horror genre. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Yeah, dumb. But who knows why she didn't keep it. Speculate away.Bothered me, but not so much.Across the English Channel, note the white cliffs of Dover, to the European mainland.</blockquote>A fill in the blank yourself moment, not hard to do really. Obviously things were left unexplained, I mean we get a "28 days later" flash on the screen. Only Europe/Africa/Asia.[/QUOTE]

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