This is Unexpected

Not only do the fanboys like 28 Weeks Later, it seems to have been embraced pretty thoroughly by the mainstream critics. For the record, I thought the original was brilliant -- almost certainly the best horror film of the last decade -- and, while I thought that a sequel had a lot of potential, CW was that it was just be low-grade horror shlock, a quick cash-in on the horror craze and the notoriety of the original. But now we've got A.O. Scott writing that not only is it "brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying," it's "also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques." I'm sold.