20 Movies Destroyed By Their Plot Holes
10. 28 Weeks Later - The World's Most Unsafe Safe Zone
In order for a tragic story to work, it needs to feel earned and logical, or else it'll be excessively cruel. Unfortunately, 28 Weeks Later didn't get the memo.
This sequel is set seven months after the outbreak of the Rage Virus, when the US army has set up a new safe zone in London and is trying to repopulate the country. Of course, everything needed to go wrong, but they could've found a remotely believable way to set things off. Instead, the zombie outbreak in 28 Weeks Later is the most avoidable one ever put to film, and its gory carnage comes off as unearned and staggeringly cruel.
Despite being the foremost military power in the world, it appears that the US military was incapable of setting up a proper safe zone. First up, two stupid kids make the bafflingly selfish decision to sneak into the unsafe London in order to get a photograph of their apparently deceased mother, and somehow, they are able to sneak off without any of the soldiers catching them.
It gets worse, though. The kids find their mother, who's an asymptomatic carrier of the Rage Virus, and she's brought back to the safe zone. No-one guards her room, and her husband Don (Robert Carlyle) is allowed to visit her unsupervised, during which he kisses her and becomes infected, triggering a new outbreak. What a load of hogwash.