Corrected entry: If someone wakes up from a coma after 28 days, they wouldn't just stand up and walk away. In fact they would have tremendous problems getting up and would probably collapse. (00:06:45)
Corrected entry: Haven't the people in the film heard of mobile phones or television? The terrestrial TV stations may have broken down, but satellite stations from abroad would easily have been able to beam in messages at the start of the outbreak denying reports that the outbreak had spread to France and America. And given that Selena and Mark have been moving around central London, they would almost certainly have picked up such a message. Similarly, anyone making a radio broadcast about a possible cure (as the blockade soldiers do) would almost certainly have left a mobile phone number they could be contacted at. As there is enough electricity left over to power Christmas lights, lights in a supermarket, and the lights in a drinks dispenser, there would be enough electricity both to run a TV and to charge a mobile phone.
Correction: Firstly, power was not available everywhere - we even see Frank was using a battery to power the Christmas lights and I think the DVD commentary admits the lighting in the supermarket was a 'cheat'. Secondly, remember that the Major wanted his men to think that the infection had spread and that the world was ending. I doubt he would let any of them have access to a mobile phone.
Corrected entry: When Jim, Hannah and Frank leave the flat they decide to go to a Supermarket, but during wars or naturals disasters the supermarkets are the first to be looted by panicked citizens. This particular supermarket is not only unlocked but untouched as well and in very good condition.
Correction: True, but this was no normal natural disaster. supermarkets are looted because there is lax enforcement to keep them protected. in this particular situation, the rationale for staying out of the streets is the threat of the infected. Looting the supermarket, or indeed, going outdoors, was a potential life threatening situation. By the time the threat had cleared up enough that it was safe to venture outside, there may not have been enough people in the area to completely loot the supermarket. As far as we know, several groups could have hit the supermarket and taken as much as Frank, Jim, etc, and there would still be plenty inside.
Corrected entry: On top of the tower block, several of the plastic containers are washing baskets with holes in the sides. If it did rain, they wouldn't hold any water anyway. It was a waste of time collecting them and carrying them to the top. Water's important, but in the middle of central London there'd be literally millions of more suitable containers. (00:40:40)
Correction: But Frank and Hannah would be afraid to leave the safety of the barricaded tower block - all those containers came from the other apartments, and I guess they decided that even the little pool that would collect at the bottom of the baskets with holes would be better than nothing.
Corrected entry: When Frank brings in the tray of drinks, there are only 3 glasses on it but when he puts it down there are 4. (00:36:20)
Correction: The fourth glass was behind the bottle of liquor, as seen in the next cut.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when Jim is first rescued by Selena and the other guy, a big deal is made about not getting infected blood in his mouth. However, near the end of the movie when Jim rescues Selena in the military compound, his entire face is covered with the blood of the people he had just fought - both infected and not. After a moment of hesitation to decide whether to kill him, Selena kisses his bloody face.
Correction: Jim only kills soldiers before kissing Selena. He never kills any of the infected so he wouldn't have any infected blood on him.
Corrected entry: The group of four get almost entirely through the tunnel before getting a flat. As they change the tire they see and hear dozens of infected running their way from the direction they just came from. Where were all these infected, standing around in broad daylight? The group would have almost certainly passed and noticed a gathering of infected that large in the daylight. (00:45:50)
Correction: The infected were presumably hiding among the wreckage they drove over.
So these infected, driven to attack the uninfected, were just hanging out in a tunnel?
Correction: From what I remember of this scene (spoiler), the infected who ran into the tunnel were chasing rats who swarmed over Hannah whilst the tyre was being changed. I don't know if it was the rats who attracted the infected or the noise of the taxi driving over the wrecked cars.
Corrected entry: Why are all the fruits and vegetables at the supermarket still fresh? you would assume that after 28 days there they'd start to look a little on the rotten side.
Correction: A lot of them are going rotten, they show several rotten fruits and vegetables and only some green apples are still good. Frank says "ah, irradiated" just before he picks up a tray of apples.
Corrected entry: When the group of 4 drive into the tunnel on their way to meet the soldiers, they discover it's somewhat clogged with abandoned and wrecked cars. Why is the tunnel the only place where cars were apparently deserted in mass hysteria? The city streets and highways are all empty. (00:41:00)
Correction: They said something about the infected attacking in daylight and that's a dark area - they could've had a mass slaughter in there.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, the lead actor walks across Westminster Bridge after leaving the deserted hospital. Despite the fact that the whole of London has been evacuated, there is a camera shot from behind the actor showing him walking across Westminster bridge, and slightly out of focus to the north east, you can see traffic going up and down Victoria embankment.
Correction: I can't see anything on the region 1 DVD. You only see the embankment in brief pan.
Corrected entry: When the group is about to drive through the tunnel, Frank has to ram some cars out of the way. Later, when they stop to set up camp, you see the front of the car with no damage at all.
Correction: He doesn't ram anything, he drives up and over the pile of debris.
Corrected entry: At the start of the movie, Jim walks through an empty London. We see Big Ben behind Jim, and Jim's shadow is behind him. The next shot shows Jim has no shadow, and is in complete shade. (00:09:11)
Correction: The sun is always shining. In the closeups you can see Jim's shadow and in the wide shots the Houses of Parliament are always bright in the morning sun.
Corrected entry: At the start of the movie, Jim walks through a deserted London. We see Big Ben from one angle showing about 7:45, then in the next shot it's about 7:40.
Correction: There's only one shot where the face of the clock is visible, and then it reads 12 minutes past 8.
Corrected entry: Why did none of the survivors have guns excepting the military? I know that Britain is probably less gun happy than the states, but surely someone would have thought to raid a police station for handguns, at least, and a shotgun would've worked quite well.
Correction: I'm certain people would've tried that. 28 days is a long time for those who were successful at looting a gun shop or police station to a) die or b) run out of ammo. Plus the UK is REALLY gun-unhappy, and you'd need to look hard to find any, even around police stations.
Corrected entry: At the start of the film as Jim walks around why is there a solitary bus lying on its side in the middle of the road? Why are there no corpses lying around? Why is it that the (virtually) only abandoned car in Central London is parked in the middle of a road junction and left both locked and alarmed?
Correction: As seen later in the film, the infected drag their victims away. If there is broken glass, then they could have easily pulled someone out.
Corrected entry: All survivors know how infectious the "rage" is yet no one wears safety glasses, face shield, rubber gloves or any other type of protection. The father did have riot gear but for some unknown reason it was quickly discarded. One guy at the beginning had a gas mask but was killed early. Besides being poorly armed they were also poorly armored.
Correction: The survivors don't seem to be aware just how infectious Rage is. In the scene when Jim is attacked by an infected neighbour at his parents' house, Selina asks him if any of the infected blood got into his mouth. However, Frank became infected by a drop of blood from an apparently long dead person dripping into his eye. It seems that no-one realises just how infectious Rage is, hence the apparent lack of protection.
Corrected entry: When Jim is walking around at the beginning of the film, he walks into a church and the priest starts coming at him; he appears to be choking. If Jim isn't aware of the virus yet, and the priest looked like he was in some kind of pain, why would Jim punch him out? Wouldn't he try to help him?
Correction: He's just walked from a completely abandoned city into a church piled high with bodies to find a red-eyed priest swinging his fists and roaring at him. He was freaked out.
Corrected entry: Why do the infected travel in groups? Wouldn't they attack anyone they see if they had pure rage? Not just the healthy people.
Correction: They don't travel in groups. They are all attracted to the same stimuli, much like sharks to blood. Simply because they all end up pursuing the same target at the same time does not suggest they are constantly roving in packs. They could easily be wandering around and run towards something making a noise, and would simply end up with a group of infected doing the same.
So what is the stimulus intended to be? Noise? Bleeding? Sweating?
The infected individual is driven by constant, rabid, all-consuming rage, with a single-minded drive to always violently attack and pursue any uninfected individuals they find.
Corrected entry: When the lead character and Selena meet the father and daughter, the father explains to them that they have not had water for some time. They use a bucket for a toilet. The lead has to shave without water. Yet in the very next scene, we see fish swimming in very clear, clean water in an aquarium. With the only available water that comes down in the form of rainfall, and a drought of at least ten days, it seems curious that the fish were given priority over personal grooming.
Correction: You may not have noticed that the water level in the fish tank is very low - the fish are all scuttling around at the bottom. Frank probably took most of the water for himself and Hannah but didn't have the heart to kill the fish (in keeping with his character).
Corrected entry: If Jim and the others are in such a hurry to reach Manchester that they make the choice to use a dangerous, unlighted tunnel out of the city rather than a much safer, but more circuitous bridge route, why do they stop later that same day for a picnic and waste so much time that they have to spend the night at the picnic site?
Correction: At that point, their main concern was to get out of the city. At the picnic site, it was a lot safer to rest.
Correction: As someone living in London/UK, I know they had no reason to use a tunnel. The flat was in the east end (as seen when they were walking in Canary Wharf). Manchester is north of London. Taking a tunnel would have taken them south of the Thames - wrong direction.
Correction: A hell of a lot easier to film a post-apocalyptic scene in a tunnel than needing to close roadways and divert people and automobiles during limited hours, to give the impression of isolation and an end-of-the-world simulation.
Correction: This applies to all mistakes regarding Jim's coma. There is no indication at any time that it lasted the entire 28 days. It is conceivable that he went into the coma maybe a week before the story begins, obviously after the epidemic started but before it could cause widespread havoc and evacuation in London, and at the time he went under reports had been coming in but the true nature was not known so life was continuing as normal, or close.
So he had to be informed of the state of the country via exposition dump because...?