Corrected entry: If the rage virus takes hold of people within seconds, then how is it possible for the virus to spread to other towns, cities, etc? It couldn't, unless people could still drive, or walk long distances.
Gary O'Reilly
29th Aug 2008
28 Days Later (2002)
29th Aug 2005
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: When Jim is in the boiler room with the other soldier waiting to be executed, the soldier is talking about infection not being able to cross the oceans and seas. This is later proved to be the case when we see the fighter jet scouting the area. One problem with that. There is, however, a way for infection to cross the sea. Euro Tunnel was built before the movie came out, and it connects England to France. The infected could have run through that, and there goes Europe. Since the tunnel was a means of escape, people would try to use that to get out of England and not destroy it. Even if someone had thought about destroying the tunnel one of the key points of the movie was that people were caught off-guard by infection, so they couldn't have. There wouldn't be time to destroy it.
Correction: The soldier also says something to the effect that the rest of Europe would quarantine England rather than risk infection. We know that England knew the infection was going on (rather than being overrun before being able to react), we know that at least some places put up resistance, and it's highly likely that other countries were trying to help with rescue efforts (the prime minster and his cabinet, as well as the Royal family, and anyone else they could get). The Channel Tunnel isn't something you could run through in a few minutes, and it's likely that London was one of the last places to fall (after all, it's the capital). France probably blocked up the tunnel as soon as the nature of the infection was realised. They wouldn't need to destroy it, just a 3ft concrete wall at their end of it, with soldiers posted as guards.
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Correction: Why not? There's nothing to suggest that people infected stay in the same town they were infected in. In fact, the sheer lack of people in London at the start of the film (there are a lot of infected there, but not the millions of people who actually live in London, especially taking into account refugees from other parts of the country) strongly suggests that the infected disperse quite widely. The attack on the mansion later in the film also shows that the infected roam around the countryside.
Gary O'Reilly