Overview
- Critics say Nia DaCosta’s sequel picks up immediately after 2025’s 28 Years Later and assumes viewers know the prior story.
- Reviewers highlight Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell for standout performances that anchor the film’s opposing forces.
- Coverage consistently describes this as the goriest entry yet, with an R rating and a focus on human cruelty and fanaticism over the infected threat.
- Alex Garland returns as screenwriter as the franchise shifts directors for this chapter, with Danny Boyle attached to the planned conclusion.
- The film opens in the U.K. this week with the U.S. theatrical rollout on January 16, and the studio has greenlit a third film with Cillian Murphy expected to return.