We want to see Sergeant Doyle and Scarlet make it through. There are two characters we actually care about.
You don’t have to dig far to find this one: We’re offered a cynical political statement about America’s real-world military efforts through portrayals of overconfident officers, incompetent handling of security and the inhumane slaughter of innocents.
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It’s also no surprise that a zombie movie might have some kind of social commentary lurking beneath its decomposing surface. It’s no surprise that this zombie flick is awash with tanker-truck loads of half-coagulated blood. Its recipe for disaster: In a giant, gore-streaked bowl, mix together scores of slavering zombies and panicked civilians, spoon in a high-powered military to fire-bomb and mow down every living thing, and top with two kids so that we can watch them suffer terribly.
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This downhill free fall of jittery, handheld cinematography is accompanied by shocking, splintering, thundering sounds and music crescendos. Tammy is forced to shoot and kill her own father. We watch a close up of a needle puncturing a vein. (We see dismembered body parts and cleaved heads.) Piles of dead bodies (in body bags) are burned.
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Flynn mows down a field full of zombies with his helicopter blades. By the last step, crowds of people are shown being carpet-bombed, gassed with chemical agents and incinerated by flame throwers. The military proceed through three steps: 1) Kill only the infected. Automatic gunfire is used on groups of people. We watch snipers pinpoint and take out numerous targets (with headshots). He also beats a woman in the face with a rifle stock, and attacks and bites numerous people including his own screaming son.Ī man falls to his death from a flying helicopter. Don, in zombie form, bites out Alice’s throat and gouges out her eyes with his thumbs. Andy has a nightmare of his mom ripping off her own face. Don watches as Alice is accosted by zombies and bitten. Tammy goes through the pockets of a corpse. This bloody activity is constant throughout the film. Once a person is exposed to the virus (transmitted through any bodily fluid) he or she immediately flies into a blood-spewing, rabid rage, biting, clawing, chewing and gouging anyone nearby. And the only hope for humanity is to get Andy and his genes (he’s probably resistant too) safely to a place where doctors can develop a vaccine.
Seeing as how this is a horror film, it soon becomes clear that she’s the one who restarts the epidemic. Alice has been bitten, but it seems that she has a rare genetic ability to resist the virus’s rages. The want to find keepsakes and pictures of Mom. The kids sneak out, slip past the military containment and leave the safety of the island to journey back to their old house. But he hopes that they can put it behind them and be a happy family. He has found his way to a position of authority and oversees the infrastructure of the “green zone.” When Don’s kids, Andy and Tammy, arrive (they were in a refugee camp in Spain) he explains to them how their mom was killed. It just so happens that Don is on the island now, too. People are allowed back into a place called Dog’s Island. Army has been called in to help clean out the dead and rotting, and take control of the repopulation effort. Everyone apparently dies except for Don, who leaves his wife, Alice, behind in an act of cowardice. The sequel starts with a group of survivors who are hunkered down in a boarded-up cottage during the siege. Their actions unleashed a rage-inducing virus upon the world. This particular British zombie mess started in 28 Days Later when animal-rights activists-more concerned about the forced captivity of a diseased monkey than with the wellbeing of the populace of London-broke into a lab and set frothing animals free.
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