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Doomsday
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MPAA RATING: R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity
Starring Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, and Malcolm McDowell
Authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades--until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): | Action | Drama | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: | Neil Marshall |
| DIRECTED BY: | Neil Marshall |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 29, 2008 Theatrical: March 14, 2008 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | UK |
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The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 102 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
[Anonymous] gave it a0:
I am ashamed. I showed a friend this movie. Now he is dead from banging his head repeatedly against a wall. Terrible movie, show it to people you hate.
David H gave it a2:
Very bad!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't believe this was the guy who did the descent, that is such a good film! this is terrible! awful dialogue, script, acting...EVERYTYHING! it isn't even remotely scary! and i can't believe they played that 80's song when that punk guy was on stage! what was the song again? ne one? thatscene was awful! where as in the descent it was suspensful, intense, exciting and realistic or the similar movie 28 days later, which deeply taps into our fears of 'what would we do if this happened?' thanks to it's amazing direction, making it incredibly realistic and all the more fearful! here, the best attempt at tapping itno our deepest fears is a stereotypically cheesy punk guy on stage singing some cheesy 80's song while screaming and a mosh-pit crowd! ooh, how scary-80'S CHEESY POP SONG! DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! it will be a complete waste of your time!
Brandon L gave it a7:
This movie did what it was supposed to do, entertain. It had more holes in the plot than any movie I have seen in the past 5 years but still managed to have great action, over the top characters, over the top gore, hot chicks with guns, car chases and explosions. For a guy looking to be entertained, you could only add gratuitous nudity and you have a future cult classic. The only other movie that I laughed at more, because of how outrageous it was, was Rambo. Both highly entertaining, but dumb as a bag of rocks.
Bob H gave it a4:
Take "Mad Max", "28 Days Later", and "Escape From New York", remove any semblance of plot, story structure, and all the interesting characters. Then add a heavy dose of contrived self-parody and camp and you have "Doomsday". This movie is absolutely dreadful. Mitra, although lovely as always, fails miserably while trying to pull off a female Snake Plissken. The usually reliable Hoskins tries to do his best with the pitiful role given him but comes up dry. The main villains are wholly unconvincing, BDSM-loving, cannabilistic carbon-copy Mad Max ripoffs while Malcolm McDowell leads a group of entirely superflous and totally useless medieval side-villains. I could drone on but honestly it's too painfully bad to try and reconvey here. I'm only giving it a solid 4 for the sheer comedic value. The excessive, cartoonish, 1970s exploitation film-style violence and gore is so delightfully bad it's good and the soundtrack is so incredibly campy and inappropriate it literally made my mouth gape wide open. I think the creators of this film started off trying to make a serious, badass post-apocalyptic movie and decided to just start goofing off halfway through filming. Definitely file this in the "so bad it's good" category.
Chris C. gave it a5:
Starts promisingly but then proceeds to steal all the best bits from Mad Max, 28 Weeks Later, The Running Man, Waterworld (ahem). Good tongue in cheek moments but the futuristic Glasgow is unconvincing - if you've ever been you'll know it's always like that!
Ernest S gave it a0:
Absolutely terrible, hardly anything made sense in this movie. I never knew Bently made slow automobiles.
George M gave it a7:
Talk about a movie with a little bit of EVERYTHING. This film throws everything but the kitchen sink at you and youll either love it, like it, or loathe it and i must say......i LIKE it. Watching this movie i could sense scene after scene that id seen all this before.......it felt like Gladiator, Aliens, 28 Days Later, Mad Max, Planet Terror, and Resident Evil Extinction all rolled up into one crazy powderkeg of goofiness, gore, and eye rolling entertainment. Don't take this film too seriously and youll have a bloody good time watching all the craziness unfold taking you everwhere from a city full of infected human beings to a castle being protected by.....knights???....confused yet??? Overall this is a overly violent, "run for your barf bags", assault on your senses, sit back and enjoy kinda movie. I look at this movie as something that pays homage to some of the most influential films out there, and it does it in a most entertaining way.......just not in a Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie kinda way.....THANK GOD.
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