28 weeks later

Saw the movie a few days ago, and it's a great zombie flick. It also is a shining example of why, if you leave things up to the Army, you'll just end up with the world being destroyed. Consider this a spoiler alert as well as plot elements are about to be discussed below.

So, like I said before, this movie really is fantastic. I love it. It's hard to go wrong with zombies anyway. However, as I said before, I did note the whole shebang was entirely the fault of the Army, which is nothing new :) I suppose that's what you get for not using devildogs.

Mistake #1 - Army security lets 2 children escape the safe zone. Had the children not escaped, the carrier mom would probably not have been found (or if she had, an entirely different outcome). Its not as if the kids were super pirate ninjas either.

Mistake #2 - Once carrier mom is discovered to be a carrier, and thus highly dangerous as she can infect anyone, she is not placed under armed guard. She's just simply left tied down in a locked room. A couple of marines standing post, dad would have been turned away, or shot, when he tried to get into the room. No dad, means no infection, since they were about to kill her anyway. Which leads to a submistake - mom should have been terminated immediately upon finding out she was infected, or put into a super sterile, highly secured set of rooms (prison would be perfect) until a cure / vaccine for the virus could be found.

Mistake #3 - Army sniper decides *not* to shoot the little boy when he's given a direct order to shoot everyone on the ground to stop the infection. Thanks to Full Metal Jacket, we know that Marines have known the secret to shooting women and children for a long time when need be. Since the sniper didn't shoot the boy, and the boy - like mom - has genes to be a carrier, the boy eventually makes it out of England and to France, carrying the virus. France subsequently is infected and now the crap has really hit the fan. Yeah it might be a bit cruel in the short term, but its better than having 6 billion zombies running around the face of the planet.

Mistake #4 - Army Apache pilots have miserable aiming when shooting at the get away car. Just when hope is lost, they are given another, near perfect chance to stop the future spread of the infection. Yet, they are unable to hit a moving vehicle. As such, the children make it to the extraction point alive, and kill France (and the world to follow for certain).

Mistake #5 - Army helo pilot ignores his orders to not pick anyone up, lands in the standium, and decides to take the two kids out of England, across the channel,and to France. By this point in time, the boy is a carrier, having just recieved the virus from zombie dad. The world could have been saved yet again, but it seems we are all doomed now.

And that's my rant :) Of course, if you have a good zombie movie, you obviously have to have an escalation that leads to lots and lots of zombies. Hopefully there will be a 3rd installment to the series, and maybe it will redeem the U.S. Army in terms of what actions they might take.