his sequel to the frightening 28 Days Later, complete with a sufficient amount of disturbing jump-out-of-your seat shocks, is bloodier and more action-filled than the first. Sadly, it is a bit of a disappointment when the movie churns out like a reality TV survival show with no narrative story formation.

Directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who takes over from Trainspotting's Danny Boyle, the sequel to 28 Days Later shows us the first days of the viral outbreak that turned England into a zombie-savaged wasteland.

The story unfolds in near-future England, the site of a war between the living and the undead. The rage virus that turned victims into crazed cannibals in the earlier film has died out; London is dead, and the zombified masses have devoured everyone in sight and finally starved to death.

Don (Robert Carlyle of The Full Monty), a survivor of the original zombie attack, is consumed with guilt because he had to leave his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) behind. Six months later, the mainland of Great Britain has been quarantined and Don joins the London reconstruction effort. He is reunited with his two kids –(17-year-old Imogen Poots and 12-year-old Mackintosh Muggleton), who were out of the country when the virus first spread.