I saw 28 Weeks Later last night

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Spoilers!

 There was one major problem for me, and that was in the middle with the 'disaster' plan.  That would NOT be the real plan of a military group in that position - they would have been distributed, with steel doors, not a central location with a flimsy chain.

Once I saw that, the rest of the movie (which would have been pretty good) was ruined.

I think, instead of having the military just be grossly incompetent, it would have been better if the following had happened:

1)    the little boy and his sister meet their mom, who we know is infected but the audience does not yet.  She kisses the little boy and hugs his sister, but we don't think anything about it.  Then the military comes, rescues them, etc.

2)    Upon returning to the base, the mother is held in quarantine while the children are released back into the care of their father.  This too would be a pretty stupid breach of biohazard protocol, but it is much more understandable due to the fact that they know the kids, their father is well known, etc.

3)    The father takes the kids to eat in the cafeteria.  While eating there, the scientists discover that the mom is infected, and start to activate the biohazard containment protocols.  Before they can, though, the little boy shares some food with his father and the transfer of saliva causes the father to turn.  Because they are in the cafeteria, the virus quickly spreads to a large number of people

 

At this point you have the same scenario as they set up in the movie, but with much more realistic behavior on everyone's part.

Other than that, it was well filmed, well acted in, etc.  If the middle had been different, I probably would say it was as good as the first... but with that middle it was only about 60%-70% as good.

 

YES I DEMAND REALISM IN MY ZOMBIE MOVIES WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ME?