The music was amazing in 28 Weeks Later, the story was gripping and it was just a briliant film! The music played throughout is the same in the first 28 days later, it creates a good atmosphere in both movies.

This is how NOT to follow through on a great movie.
In 28 weeks later, Robert Carlysle and his wife are among other survivors, living in a country cottage with boarded up windows when a small boy begins pounding on the outside of the door.
Robert's character begs his wife not to open, but she does.
Everyone stares in amazement at the boy as he shovels food into his face, telling his tale of survival.
Suddenly, an infected rips in through the window-enter the horror.
Everyone scramble for their lives, elderly people, pregnant women and young men, all become exposed to the infection.
Robert and his wife race upstairs, she tries to find the, now hiding child while Robert staves off the enemy horde.
He screams for her to get out of the closet and forget the child, she is on the opposite side of the room when everything stops... as the camera pans, there are several infected in the same room as them, staring and growling at them. Robert on one side of the room, his wife on the other. She yells for him, he dives out of the window, running for his life.
She can be seen at the window one moment, then gone the next.

Robert's charcter, obviously makes it out alive and this was really the best part of the movie.

The americans have secured the "safe zone", a perimeter of the inner city (London), which is heavily fortified and ready to be re-settled by displace Londoners who made it out alive(from the first movie).
Roberts' character is reunited with his children and tell them that their mother was killed while he was trying to save her(a lie).
His character is the custodian of new London, and is the liason between citizens and the armed forces-granting him broad and sweeping authority including a security pass for any and all restricted areas.

cut to the chase....no one is allowed to leave the secured perimiter, but his children do. They hop on mopeds and scot on over to their old home where they find, who else? Their mother alive, but not well.
She has obviously been nitten, but is not suffering from the lethal disease. She is a carrier, or thats what the hot young military doctor discovers once she is restrained and carried back to the safe zone.
....Robert visits her-against permission, kisses her and he then becomes infected(via saliva)
everything goes to heck from here-military personell are ordered to fire on everything, not just infected and eventually the city is overtaken, again with infected.

the rest of the film is a small band of survivors, plus the two children trying to make it to safety with the help of a Marine sniper and the good doctor.

No spoilers here, I did not like the movie that much but will not ruin the ending....

Don't bother wasting money on renting the DVD of 28 Weeks Later, wait for it to appear on TV.

As for Dear Robert, one of my favourite actors - all I can say is oh dear! I sincerely hope you got a good pay cheque.

I couldn't wait for this film to come out, I just love a gory horror/suspense film. I was a big fan of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and I hoped that this film would be half as good.
The film itself starts off at a time when the "rage" infection is still active, "the infected" are still at large and are looking for their next bit of neck.
A group of people are hold up in a cottage in a small village, their meal is interrupted by a boys screams at the door so they let him in. But unfortunately this leads to the infected also getting in causing chaos, reminding the audience of the quickness of the infection, and the savageness of the infected.
Robert Carlisle's character escapes, leaving his wife behind to die.

The film then moves to 28 weeks later, all of the infected have starved to death and Britain is deemed to be safe enough to be re-inhabited. The Isle of Dogs in London has been designated District 1, a heavily guarded compound where an American led team aim to start to get the Country back up and running.
Everything is running smoothly until the security is breached. The infection is dormant and is again unleashed into District 1.
The Americans try to contain the infection as best they could but it is no use. We find that one of the characters in the film may have a special blood group that could hold the clues for a cure or serum. The Army however wants to kill everyone now the infection is loose. The film moves on to a chase movie, 2 conscientious Americans trying to get the possible saviour to safety followed by the ravenous infected and the Army's attempts to fire bomb and gas any survivors.

Although the action sequences of this film are well shot and the story is simple but good and well told I still felt that this film lacked something. Whether it was the feelings brought out in the first film, Danny Boyle's ability to make the audience feel as isolated or as scared as the main protagonists. The sheer feeling of desperation that a massive disaster like this could create and the different reactions of different people to this.
There was none of this in this film, yes the effects are good, the story runs at a good pace and the ending is predictable (but still good). I just did not come out of the film satisfied, maybe it is because I like 28 days Later so much, I don't know.
I would only recommend this film to someone like myself, I enjoyed the blood, the violence and the suspense but unfortunately there was something missing.