28 WEEKS LATER

The Video: Foregoing the blurry mini-DV cinematography of the original, 28 WEEKS LATER is shot on a variety of formats that makes it difficult to gauge what is due to source quality and what is due to video transfer. Much of the attack scenes are shot in 16mm to give an intentionally grainy, rougher look that is effective and captured well on the video transfer. Much of the compound scenes are on 35mm and look much slicker, though I did notice a few instance in the action scenes of very mild compression artifacting. Generally the video quality is good but nothing too remarkable. The Audio: Again, generally good but nothing especially remarkable. Sometimes I thought a detected a bit of muddiness but this I think is more of a mixing thing rather than the audio transfer, and may be an intentional aesthetic. The Extras: 28 WEEKS LATER comes presented on a single disk and thus is not a special edition. It does, however, pack quite a bit of features into its space. There is a standard making-of that offers some nice behind-the-scenes footage, but it is unfortunately short. Other featurettes highlight the action scenes, and perhaps the best one is a very amusing look at the extras and performers who portrayed the infected. While the behind-the-scenes footage is quite good, the interviews appear to be the press-kit style, though they manage to still get in some good info. Deleted scenes and a directors commentary round out the disk, in addition to trailers and what appears to be flash-animation adaptations of a comic book spin-off. Overall, while these are not exactly features to knock your socks off, they still give us a solid look at the making of the film and make the release more worthwhile. Overall, this is a decent DVD release. The film itself is excellent, there are no issue with audio or video, and a humble assortment of extras make this a very recommended viewing.

rating:4