The films starts out as interesting as the first one. What is character actor Robert Carlyle doing in there ? Amazing. The setting is grim and bears the same underlying melancholic tragedy as the first one did. The fact that the film is set in Britain is even more exploited in this part of the series and we see deserted Canary Wharf, St. Pauls, Tube stations, what a delight and great set design and also a refreshing lack of American cliches and characters. Alas, the film has lots and lots of plotholes and inconsistencies and instead of keeping the outbreak and danger in focus and creating a cat and mouse play, the film desperately grasps for a deeper meaning which is nowhere to be found and forces its story down roads that are not there and chokes all flaring moments of creditability and suspense of belief.

I don’t want to spoil the action but apart from Carlyle, the cast is very bleak and Rose Byrne as the quote-female makes the film far less enjoyable than it could have been.

A great premise (UK, militia vs. civilians, Carlyle) is wasted when the film opts for rubbish twists and a boring and foreseeable conclusion.

Not a bad zombie film but no way as good as the original.