Acting and Story sucked but Action was fairly good...well, it was more than i expected anyway.oh and they just drive off on a car which has been in a container for 30 years or something! i got to get one of those!!! lol
Entertaining and awesome. Scotland is closed off from the rest of the world because of a deadly virus that originated in the area. Walls are built between Scotland and England and the ocean mined and patrolled to prevent anyone from getting in or out. The virus resurfaces in London 30 years later in London and in order to stop it, a team is sent over the wall into Scotland by the British prime minister and his chief advisers to where a few survivors have been seen via satellite. The team, lead by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), must find a scientist named Kane (Malcolm McDowell) who was working on a cure before the walls were put up. What they find over the wall are two barbaric factions at war. In Glasgow, once the capital of Scotland, one faction consisting of punky Mad Max-esque cannibals led by Sol, Kane's son, resides. The other faction, led by Kane, resides over the mountains, away from the cities in the grounds of a castle and live in an almost medieval fashion with medieval weaponry and customs. Sinclair and her team must avoid both sides while trying to find the cure for the virus that begins to take toll on the outside world.
It was written and directed by Neil Marshall who did Dog Soldiers and The Descent and was very violent and fun. One part which was really cool was where it shows the Glasgow dwelling cannibals and everyone is partying in a Mad Max thunderdome type way and then they introduce Sol to come on stage with this music playing like he is a celebrity and then they have these Scottish guys come out in kilts dancing to silly music to introduce him while he walks around the stage looking menacing. Then they proceed to cook and eat one of their prisoners. Awesome scene. There were a few things that I didn't particularly like about the film and that was that there were a few things that were just too silly with regards to action scenes that didn't make sense and decisions people made that were utterly stupid. Regardless, if you are going to watch an action type movie full of violence, you'd be much better off watching something like this with at least some character development, alright acting and a developed storyline than watching something with none of those things like Transformers.
Doomsday was an unexpected suprise. When I originally saw the adverts for this I was thinking 'Oh great another virus movie'; I couldn't have been more wrong.
Along with some of the most amazing post-holocaust punk make-up i've ever seen and the killer soundtrack I can't fault this movie.
The BBQ scene was simply inspired with Craig Conway the perfect actor to take on the role of Sol. However, the film lacked something. I was waiting to see an amazing ending, you know, all out, fully blown wowness. But instead all we got was a the no-substance Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) becoming the 'leader' of the gang of cannibal Scots.
I don't know about anyone else but i'd love to see a sequal to this. Overall, one of Neil Marshall's greatest creations.
it was thriller movie! ever i saw it in way back to theather.this film is kinda reminded me of both "mad max road warriors" & "beyond thunderdome". and anyway this so awesome. this performed rhona mitra(of "the shooter")as maj. eden sinclair.
director of neil marshall who direct of 2005 horror
movie "the descent".
I quite like post apocalyptic movies, and this is as good as any Mad Max or Resident Evil. With fighting, decapitations and even cannabalism it Bloody good fun. And Rhona Mitra is a Foxy bitch.
Just what I hoped and expected. But don't let the plot fool you even if it, at first glance, resemble of another version of "28 Days/Weeks Later". No, this is something totally different and note that there are no vampires in this movie. Take one scene, thing or feeling from a bunch of movies like Blade, Alien 1 & 2, Resident Evil 2, Mad Max, Pulp Fiction, Land of the Dead, Escape from New York, The Running Man, Highlander and so on. Add a dash of dark humor and put everything in a blender. And what do you get? You get a movie with slasher scenes and nonstop action from square one to finish. So to the weaknesses, the story is little too thin and I missed SOME short pauses between all the action so I could 'catch my breath'. To end up all this... if you want action you will get it!
yet another good idea from neil marshall. although thoughly enjoyable and some quite funny bits like u would expect u really don't feel all that bother about the main characters as much as u feel u should.
It's ashame that not too many people saw this movie because they would have loved it. This film is a better film than the director previous film THE DECENT. Buy it when it comes out on DVD or BLUERAY.
Hey, this is a cool and crazy movie! The end of civilisation kind of movie. It takes you to different places where people live different lives, adapting to what they are made to believe. It had great humour, great action, a sexy actress and a few crazy men.
I like the 80's style! Being able to watch a movie similar to the 80's ones in theaters was really exciting. Too bad there weren't a lot of people watching the time I went.
Una película muy entretenida... típico virus de final del mundo, pero con una adaptación nueva e interesante, quizá ese fue el toque que la hizo ser una buena película para ver.
A pesar de tener un comienzo bueno este filme comenzo a perder su peso en cuento siguio la filmación y cuando apareció Malcom McDowell supe entonces que habia desperdiciado mi tiempo.
Las escenas de persecución y acción en general son buenas pero hay algo bastante dificl de comprender y es el uso de distintos tipos de épocas para reflejar el hecho de que la reclusión y el regreso a lo primitivo a causa del virus letal estaban presentes en una tierra baldia.
En realidad esta mezcla solo confunde pues lo futuristico se contrapone con lo medieval y tal vez sea lógico pero bastante disparejo.
El uso del virus pareció más un pretezto que al final queda casi inconcluso y casi hasta fuera de lugar cosa que no deberia haber sido ya que parecia el punto principal del filme.
Hay muchas cosas sin terminar y de las que quedan dudas y en realidad la mezcla hacen que esto se complique más y se confunda todo ya de manera pareja.
Tiene una mezla de muchas cosas, desde soldados de la época medieval hasta caníbales con un negro sentido del humor.
Doosday empieza con la típica historia en la que un virus amenaza con acabar con la población de una ciudad, y del mundo, si no se toman acciones rápidas, en fin las personas son puestas en cuarentena y literalmente olvidadas.
Muchos años después el virus vuelve, allí es donde entra Eden (la protagonista), en un viaje suicida hacia la ciudad abandona.
La película está llena de acción, las actuaciones son aceptables, pero la historia va cayendo y cayendo cada vez más. 6/10
A high-octane homage to/ mish-mash of various 80s post-apocalypse flicks, Doomsday proves highly entertaining, if somewhat disjointed and inconsistent in execution. The visually-pleasing Rhona Mitra plays her Plissken-without-a-penis role well against Craig Conway's mentalist turn as Wez...I mean Sol! A colourful cast, including Malcolm McDowell and a Gimp named David, add to the anarchy. Suffers from patchy characterization, underdeveloped storytelling and sharp shifts in mood (perhaps due to the footage removed in production), otherwise a competent confection of post-apocalyptic pleasure. Here's to an extended edition on DVD!
The main issue I had with this film is how late you had to wait to see some action. It was just too slow for me. It had its good points and bad points. Some bad points were that it dragged on a little bit and at times it was a little difficult to understand because everyone had strong accents which is ok if you are from the U.K. but otherwise can be a little annoying. Another bad point was the acting was nothing special and it was a little cheesy. The good point was that once it got going it had some really cool action scenes. Another good point was that it had some cool gore scenes in it which I wasn't expecting from this film but I also thought it would be more entertaining then it was. If you want to see it then it's ok but unless you want to see a little action with some gore then don't bother because that was all this film really offers.
Initially i had very low expectations for this apocalpyse film, but i was pleasently suprised. Doomsday is 28 Days Later meets Mad Max with a truck load of blood gore and savagery, carefully mixed with high octane , bllood pumping action. This movie was so raw and intense, and unique in its appeal that it draws you in. From its ravenous opening , to its smashmouth ending, Doomsday delivers, and revels in all its messy glory.
Enjoyable horror/action movie.When Scotland catches what becomes known as the "reaper virus" and peoples skin starts melting and people start dying,the country gets cut off from the rest of the world with a big wall put up around it.But 30 years later the virus starts happening in London and when it's discovered that there are survivors from the original virus still in Scotland,a team is sent in to find out how these people survived.Led by the sexy Rhona Mitra,the team discover an army of mental cannibalistic bastards and it's not long before the team are fighting for their lives against them.There's plenty of gore and plenty of action throughout and the pace rarely slackens,and despite the unforgivable use of Frankie Goes To Hollywoods frankly shit Two Tribes song during an otherwise brilliant car chase,this is another good film from Neil Marshall and a very good British horror.
After a good 28 days later-esque start this film quickly develops into a farce of mad max type insanity and braveheart style swordfighting. An interesting premise but so many attempts at homages to other classic films such as the ones mentioned create a melting pot of storys that add nothing to the main plot and senarios that seem to arise from nothing and then vanish. very disappointing
I saw this last night, the only reason i picked it up was because it was Neil Marshall, i wasn't a fan of Dog Soldiers, but The Descent ended up being one of my all time favourite movies, so i was willing to give it a go.........the premise didn't excite me all too much to be honest, so i was cautious and hoped it would end up good.
Well, not only was it good, it was ****ing awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!................i honestly didn't expect it to be as entertaining as it was. It starts off good, but doesn't get great until the main cast leave the safe zone and cross the wall over to the broken and wild remains of London. It was cool seeing Neil mix up the different "zones" in the movie, the safe zone is all high tech and futuristic, the other side of the wall however is a cross between Mad Max punk cannibal gangs and Medieval warrior folk. There's PLENTY of action, the freeway car chase was INSANE and Rhona Mitra vs the "Executioner" was ****ing MENTAL!......speaking of Rhona, she was seriously one BAD ASS BITCH in this movie. She kicked such serious ass!!!!!!
Oh.my God. Like a really shite cross between 28 Days Later, Resident Evil and Robin Hood- it's like what the fuck? Badly represents the outcome of re-civilisation. In exteme
I've always thought of Rhona Mitra as the poor man's Claire Forlani, but here she did good as the kick ass heroine. Probably method acting as when she was the Tomb Raider model, she probably had to fight off swarms of foaming at the mouth, sweaty geeks at games fairs.
Carefully obeying the rules of post-apocalyptic movies, after being cut off from civilization, riddled with disease and descended into an anarchic state, the people of Scotland divided into factions, seemingly based on 1980s music videos. Half were Motley Crue, the other Ten Pole Tudor.
It was absolutely preposterous and dumb with a very thin story and gargantuan logic farts. A real mixed grill of a film; you will certainly have seen a lot of it before in other, possibly better movies, but against all odds it was a tasty feast. Funny and action packed, with copious amounts of splatter and very satisfying.
It was also useful to know that to escape the hordes of rabid cannibalistic evil, simply nothing will do better than a £100,000 Bentley Continental GT. I really must update my 'ride' to be truly prepared for Armageddon.
Is this England's impression of what will happen to Scotland if we become independent? Didn't like the generic Scottish accents and queen street station was definitely not queen street station. A decent story but overall just too cheesy.
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