Doomsday
Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell
In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walli...( read more
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DVD Released: July 29, 2008
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May 19, 2009A very good, violent, gory action film with an eclectic mix of ideas from 28 weeks later, Mad Max and the Escape from NY/L.A. films. The plot is a kinda mix of those three films as well. Not original by any means but it has plenty of action all right and some bloody battles along... ...( read more )
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April 17, 2009Ok film, i guess belivable in some sences, but when all is said and done, its just a copy of multiple films with there own spin on it.
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April 7, 2009Where to begin with this haha
first of, you have a 28 Days/Weeks later clone with almost the same flippin story line. Killer virus, England is screwed, Scotland used as quaratine zone, survivors discovered, go in and get the cure. Very predictable and with alittle Escape from New... ...( read more ) -
March 30, 2009I had high hopes for Neil Marshall after Dog Soliders and Descent, but this I'm aftraid is a rather second rate affair.
It's ostensibly a mishmash of ideas from Escape from New York, Mad Max 2, and 28 Days Later, that at the same time cynicall... ...( read more ) -
March 19, 2009When you can't cast Kate Beckinsale, go for her look alike, which seems to be the precise way Neil Marshall was thinking when he cast Rhona Mitra and made her look, walk, and talk like Selene from Underworld.
Also like Underworld, Doomsday is a much better film then it has any ri... ...( read more ) -
June 28, 2009It's hard to imagine a director looking at a movie like Doomsday and not realizing that it belongs in the 80's. From the over-exaggerated acting to the cheesy, overused one-liners, Doomsday is bursting with a lack of creativity. You can see just from looking at a screen capture t... ...( read more )
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March 20, 2008
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September 16, 2008My sweetest friend
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As it were you last to live
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When troubles arrive
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And remeber life is to sweet,
Every morning when you wake,
Decide right from the start,
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And let it all in with an open heart.
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August 1, 2008did not like it much...but the chase sequence in the climax was really grt...that more than covered up for the movie...wich was average...
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May 14, 2008Neil Marshall, in his 3rd film (dog soldiers & the Decent being the others) goes down hill I'm afraid. seems like he wanted to make a film with all his favourite scenes & ideas from others & does not quite pull it off. The main two influences are Escape from New York (for the most part of the film) & the great car chase at the end of mad max 2 (so much as to name 1 character(John) Carpenter & (George) Miller & other references. on their own the action scenes (& gory deaths) & post apocalyptic Scotland & the action scenes & car chases are entertaining, but where it falls down hard is the script, almost as if a 13 year old wrote it,putting all his favourite bits of other films into one film & disregarded how to make sense of the plot & how to get from one scene to another.
Anyone like me who has Enjoyed Mr Marshall's films previously, will enjoy spotting the actors from his previous movies & the subtle name references (such as Sterling for the lad who played Spoon in Dog soldiers etc)
It's a film I really want to like, but due to the bad story used to wedge the good action scenes, It leaves you feeling not quite satisfied. -
March 22, 2008This movie doesn't try to be more than what it is... A good old 80's style action movie ! You could say it's an hommage to movies like the Mad Max series and Escape from NY. It entertains and is fun !
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March 21, 2008I don't understand why people have a problem with doomsday. I thought it was good. Yeah, it was lacking in a few things story wise but the rest of it was good. The guy who said that we had already seen car chases and arena death battles is right, we have. But that is kind of the point. The people we see in doomsday have been left there to die. They know absolutely nothing of the outside world and were determined to get out once people came back in. The car chase was inevitable and the arena battle was their form of entertainment. So I really don't understand the problem here.
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March 15, 2008I caught a matinée, so I only had to pay $5.50 to see it. I wasn't expecting originality, I was expecting a good time...which I...kinda got?
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March 14, 2008This is basically a rip-off of Mad Max/Road Warrior with a hint of 28 Days Later and maybe Escape from New York. If you had any decency you would rent one of these films instead of paying to see a horrible Hollywood rip-off.
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March 10, 2008this was interesting when it first came out in the 80's..although then it was called escape from new york...hollywood and their "original" ideas...give me a break
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