Since people are talking about the unrealistic elements in the movies that bothered them, my biggest peeve was the idiotic emergency plan in 28 Weeks Later.
"Ok, we've got a pathogen that turns any infected person into an active transmitter within seconds. We should lock all the uninfected up in one cramped space."
Seriously, the movie's finale disaster could've been prevented if all the civilians had been instructed to lock themselves in separate rooms and stay quiet. The rage zombies aren't very adept at finding their prey, or breaking through barriers (as individuals at least).
I was about two lines into an effort post, and then I checked, I've brought this up
twice in this very thread because it pisses me off so much.
The entire 'second outbreak' is one series of contrivances and outright stupidity by the governments and people.
I mean first of all, if you have a potential asymptomatic carrier of a highly virulent super virus that just recently killed millions of people then said carrier is going to be in a BS4 Level isolation pod or area under more guard and surveillance than your average nuke plant. We already have existing protocols for virulent strains that don't cause super ultra mega rabies, and there is no reason that they would have been used at a minimum. You couldn't even get me
into a room with a suspected Rage carrier without a reinforced Type A Biohazard protection suit, and these dipshits aren't even wearing face shields! One drop of spittle in the eye and you're dead! There's been tons of development since the 40's regarding biosafety for research and medicine (and warfare). The official classifications and certification for the levels (1, 2, 3, and 4) were set up in the 1980's in the US and then the UK shortly after. Following 9/11, concerns about anthrax and bioterrorism brought these protocols into the limelight, and many were updated and improved. There is absolutely zero reason that they wouldn't have access to and use mobile labs and isolation rooms for this carrier.
Even assuming every single portable biosafety lab was dropped by accident into the Channel, you can certainly do better than some random room with no monitoring equipment and no guards
at all. The fact that the lead engineer/maintenance guy is
married to said carrier should have at the very least had his access revoked, like what the fuck. In fact, that room should have been surrounded by jumpy men with machine guns and
manually operated doors that require multiple keys to unlock, just to prevent random anyone from wandering in. Shit, even one crayon eating marine standing outside the door that won't let anyone in without the General and head doctor giving the direct verbal order would have prevented the outbreak.
Secondly, when dealing with a highly infectious strain that rapidly causes psychotic violence it also seems like the last thing you'd want to do is take a bunch of people out of their apartments with food and supplies where they might be able to hide and avoid the Rage Infected and instead cram them all together in a warehouse with no food or toilets where they all become infected in under a minute if a single subject gets inside.
They didn't even have the decency to have the carrier's transport truck blow a tire and lose containment right next to the county fair or something, bare minimum Sharknado level writing. The corporate espionage angle of Jurassic Park is a plausible chain of events. These circumstances were such that it seemed the government/military
wanted the carrier to infect everyone, which would be an interesting twist. Sadly all we got was lazy and bad writing that couldn't come up with an interesting or logical way to create an infection crisis except 'the military is dumb and we want it.'
