Washington Post by Desson Thomson

As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.

The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett

A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

There's no better fun for movie lovers than a small, unheralded film that turns out to be terrific -- unless it's a small, unheralded sequel that trumps the original.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.

Variety by Derek Elley

A full-bore zombie romp that more than delivers the genre goods.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

28 Weeks Later has a stronger story line, equally fine performances, greater tension, enough gore to satisfy the most hard-core zombie fan, and a narrative pace that flings us from the opening scenes to the very last image.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Those rigorously moral and humanistic underpinnings give 28 Weeks Later a kind of power that 100 Saws and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes could never achieve.

Boston Globe by Erin Meister

The script is biting and timely.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.