Doomsday Reviews and Ratings



  • November 29, 2008
    wow...just wow... I was incredulous this film was made. the writer and director should retire. I gave it a full star's worth for "Escape From New York" styled badness entertainment value - but even then, been there, done that....
  • November 26, 2008
    I am a huge fan of Neil Marshall after Dog Soldiers and The Descent so I was looking forward to this big time.
    However it isn't as strong as his previous efforts as he tries to cram too many genres and concepts from past movies into teh running time.
    The reult is uneven as it wav...( read more)ers from brilliant to boring. One saving grace is Rhona Mitra, the best looking action hero seen for some time.
  • November 25, 2008
    This film rocked! It had guns, boobs, swords, blood and guts, more guns, blood, guts swords, boobs, strippers ooh and Bob Hoskins xD

    The only thing that let it down was the ending.. That sucked
  • November 24, 2008
    This was a disappointment,i'm a fan of Neil Marshall and this really isn't up to the high standard i was used to. Its a mishmash of many movies,including Mad Max,Escape from New York,28 Days Later to name but a few. It's not that its a bad movie,it's very polished,it looks great,...( read more)it has plenty of splatter. my expectations were just too high i guess. Saying that,it's clear Marshall was having a ball making it,and i hope he will be back to his normal reliable self with Sacrilege,and this was something he just had to get out of his system.
  • November 23, 2008
    When it started as Mad Max meets Escape from New York, I was totally cool with it. When it put on its Gladiator sandals and Braveheart facepaint, it let it's ridiculousness spin out of control. All in all, it's a few really cool things stuck on top of something kinda average.
  • November 22, 2008
    omg do not watch this heap of crap the film sucks
  • November 13, 2008
    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's Bloody good fun. And Rhona Mitra is a Foxy bitch.
  • November 13, 2008
    And i love zombie movies but wow what a suckfest.
  • November 13, 2008
    Loved Doomsday! I made me proud to see that it is still possible to make a film like this, still have a modern feel to it, but kind of old school to it, all the while being an actually good film. I would describe Doomsday as If to blend Resident Evil and Underworld with the like...( read more) sof the classics like Mad Max and The Road Warrior.
  • November 12, 2008
    A disappointing pastiche of other genre films without an identity of its own. You say 'homage' I say 'out of ideas.'
  • November 9, 2008
    Its Mad Max, 28 Days Later and Underworld in a violent blender. An ultra fast, ultra violennt, ultra nutcase blender.

    Rohna Mitra's character is essentially just "Selene" from underworld in a slightly different outfit and minues the vampire powers, but has a cool electronic ey...( read more)e. Bob Hoskins character is like a reformed "Uncle Bart" from the Jet Li movie 'Unleashed'.

    Neil Marshall directed Dog Soldiers, one of my most treasured movies ever, and like Dog Soldiers, Doomsday is a brilliantly thoughtless escapade of madness. Just imagine clips of Mad Max, Underworld and 28 days later cut together with the Disturbed song "Down With the Sickness". You get the idea.

    Also like Dog Soldiers, the film has a seedy comic undertone that makes the movie seem all the more ridiculous, but all the more fun, and creates a very distinct feeling that you can recognize the cast and filmmakers by.

    Its just bucketloads of awesome fun and dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

    Justins Best Bit: Theres loads, being burnt alive, the massive climactic death race, take your pick.
  • November 8, 2008
    Disppointing film with it quite blatantly copying large chunks of the Mad Max films and also Escape from New York.Even found it hard not to fall asleep during it.
  • November 8, 2008
    The following is the plot summary for my favorite kids tv show The Tribe........



    'Where the virus came from, no-one knew... from deepest space, bacterial warfare or some nation's scientific experiments gone horrifically wrong? All the Adults are gone... All the teach...( read more)ers are gone... All peace and regular meals are gone... Just tribal instincts and war paint survive. If survival depends on not getting caught by the evil Locusts or rival cyber gang Demon Dogs or just finding your next meal... then the only option is to start your own Tribe.'



    ........so when i saw Doomsday advertised earlier this year i could not wait to watch it because it reminded me of my favorite show. I thought wow an adult version,what can we expect? I never got chance to see it on the cinema and over the last few months i became less and less excited because of all the bad reviews i had heard about it.



    I finally watched it this week and i loved it. I would describe it as an action-packed black comedy rather than a thriller,there are quite a few laugh out loud scenes and the dinner scene was thoroughly entertaining,it reminded me of the evening entertainment at the top UK heavy metal festival Download but i could not help thinking how is that one BBQ cooked man going to feed such a large crowd of cannibals.



    I would love to see a sequel!
  • November 4, 2008
    "If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend." Greatest line ever!
  • November 4, 2008
    This movie knows that it is ripping off about ten films and doesn't say sorry for it. Its as if someone woke up and said "well i like this from this and that from that..." and made a movie with witty one liners. i also like the appropraite use of the fine young canibals.
  • November 2, 2008
    nothing new...all the time i was thinking like -i'm watching a "resident evil" film...with a kate beckinsale lookalike with punks having british(gentle) accent & trying 2 be like mad max villains..

    & m becoming mesmerised by british beauties..the more i see 'em..the more i lu...( read more)v 'em..
  • November 1, 2008
    Another favorite of 2008. I really need to own this. No apocylptic collection should be without.
  • October 31, 2008
    at exactly what stage of production did this sound like a good idea?! a cheap mess, in both looks and thrills.
  • October 30, 2008
    Clearly a B-movie, but I usually like this type of virus-doom-zombie movies. But this was mostly a lousy mix of Mad Max, Escape from New York, The Warriors and some Knight's movie! A shame the director cannot deliever anything out of his obviously huge imagination and fantasy...
  • October 30, 2008
    A little bit of 28 Days Later... with some Mad Max 2. Oh, and throw in a touch of Gladiator! With those three films, and a few more, you end up with Neil Marshall's outrageously entertaining, Grindhouse-esquire action movie, Doomsday. And boy is it a lot of fun...and then some! S...( read more)ure, the plot is a tad ridiculous and the characters are barely developed, but Marshall makes up for this by providing ultra-gory, intense action sequences and fast pace to boot. The Reaper Virus decimates Scotland in 2008, and this ends up with Scotland being walled off from the world. Skip to 2035, and the virus has reached London, which causes the government to send a squad of specialists, led by Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) into Scotland to retrieve a cure from a crazed doctor, Kane (Malcolm McDowell). However, when they get through The Wall they find the survivors are unwelcoming, and what follows is a battle for survival against cannibalistic madmen.

    First and foremost, Doomsday is incredibly over the top. How, you may ask? Well, we witness a soldier barbecued and eaten, cows being squashed by tanks, a gladiator battle, many people crushed by cars and plenty of bodily mutilation including impalement and decapitation. Marshall, coming off of the successes of cult werewolf film Dog Soldiers and caving-gone-wrong movie The Descent, knows how to direct (writing...not so much). Unfortunately, I don't think people knew what to expect, so they just assumed it was another Descent. This may be why it was trashed by many critics and was not a huge box-office success. Obviously, the tone is very light-hearted and referential and he succeeds in doing this. Honestly, I got sucked in from the beginning and found myself intrigued and tense the whole way through.

    Of course, the film is not perfect. As mentioned previously, the story is not great (nor is the dialogue). The acting is passable, I actually think Mitra is a great heroine and a decent actor. Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell provide excellent support but none of the other actors are true standouts. Overall, I would recommend this film to people who want a thrilling and well-made post-apocalyptic action film that is almost a modern day Grindhouse flick.

    3½/5
  • October 29, 2008
    this was surprising good!! i truely love it!
  • October 28, 2008
    Just because it's stupid does not mean it is not entertaining. I think it happened like this: In 1980, John Carpenter bought the rights to some unused Monty Python skits, only he took them seriously and worked them into a film treatment, which was rejected by every third-rate pr...( read more)oducer in town. Some years later, a video game company picked up the rights, but couldn't get it to work, so they sold it to Neil Marshall, who made this movie. Marshall made sure that the editor made cuts every half second throughout the movie.

    Oh, yeah. It's about the end of the world, sort of, but not really.

    Admirers of "Descent" (of which I am one) may or may not like this. Wait for the comic-book adaptation.
  • October 28, 2008
    IT WAS OKAY THAN IT WAS WEIRD
  • October 26, 2008
    Una delle peggiori sceneggiature di sempre.
  • October 25, 2008
    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 dire...( read more)ct of 2005 horror movie "the descent".
  • October 25, 2008
    is was a pretty good movie!!!
  • October 25, 2008
    Perhaps with a bigger budget, better actors, and a better script this could've been a cult favorite rather than just a gory mess.
  • October 23, 2008
    this movie was off the hook cool..I loved it..
  • October 23, 2008
    Good but Marshall have done better
  • October 21, 2008
    Sometimes a film looks so "right up your alley" that you don't really bother to investigate it before you rent it. That's what happened to me with "Doomsday".
    I'd read that it was a kind of homage to one of my favorite films, "Escape from New York", and another I once loved but...( read more) have not seen again in about twenty years, "Mad Max II", and it was directed by someone I felt I could trust, Neil Marshall, whose "The Descent" I had rather enjoyed. I was also under the false impression that it was a zombie movie, which it is definitely not.

    Well, after just a few minutes of film, I knew this was going to be a turkey. "Doomsday" is "Escape from New York" with all the class drained out. It is cheap, vulgar and horribly paced, with large empty chunks of speechifying and hyperkinetic action sequences that must pack about three shots a second (I'm not exaggerating.)

    Though it might loosely qualify as an homage to the aforementioned films, with characters named Miller and Carpenter (the very same way Carpenter himself
    had called two of his characters Romero and Cronenberg), it looks closer to a rip-off, in the same way that "2019 dopo la caputa di New York" or Carpenter's own "Escape from L.A." were.

    Basically the film is a British version of "Escape from New York" (with countless borrowed plot elements, characters and even shots) into which are sandwiched an "Aliens" segment (the two armoured cars and the team that gets mauled by gangs of dark punk figures) a "Lord of the Rings" interlude" and a "Mad Max II" climax.

    I would have no objection to that kind of derivative mixture if it had been done properly and respectfully, but the problem is that the whole thing is grotesque, the lead character has absolutely no charisma (she tries to be a cross between Beckinsale's Selene and Loken's Terminator, but she's just an abrasive show off), the camerawork is completely chaotic, and the whole thing is wrapped in cheap gore (including the blowing up of a rabbit) and a barrage of foul language (even worse than Marshall's earlier "Dog Soldiers".)

    "Escape from New York" was the masterpiece of a man raised on classic western movies. I don't know what Marshall was raised on, but obviously he got his style from other influences than Miller, Carpenter and Cameron. From the overlong punk concert with thong-clad pole dancers, I'm guessing rap and satanic rock videos.
  • October 21, 2008
    Oh come on, it was good to munch popcorn to. Just ignore the gaping plot holes and enjoy.
  • October 20, 2008
    In the tradition of Mad Max and Escape from New York this film was a surprise package.
  • October 19, 2008
    I really love these kind of movies - some kind of a deadly infection has gone out of control.
    Maybe it wasn't that special plotwise, it definitely excelled in action, and by excelled I mean completely conquered every type of action there is. It perhaps had everything in it acti...( read more)onwise: an epidemic of infection and the extreme measures used against it, some sickly gothic bloodfest, unbelievable car chases, cool gun fights, medieval face-offs and martial arts. This movie is definitely for action lovers.
    The lead actress did a good job as a cool stylish hardcore heroine who pretty much kicks anyone's ass and also has quite a darkside to her.
    I'm glad that I wasn't disappointed with this film, because I spent more money on it than I usually spend on DVDs.
    Definitely will recommend this to you if you loved 28 Days/Weeks later, I am Legend and Resident Evil movies.
  • October 17, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • October 16, 2008
    i went to the haunted house for this movie at Halloween Horror Nights and it was AWESOME! i'm dying to see the movie now :D
  • October 16, 2008
    A horrible movie on many levels but I have to admit that I had fun watching it. Maybe because it was so cliche... I really can't put my head around it. Don't know if I would recommend it though. Probably wont watch it again either unless I get really drunk first.
  • October 15, 2008
    Bloody violent British film. FUN!!!
  • October 14, 2008
    Started out like 28 days later, then moved into a modern version of "Escape from L.A" except instead of havin Kurt Russell you have Rhona Mitra as the main character.
  • October 14, 2008
    Ha, I just rented this movie from the videostore.
  • October 12, 2008
    i frickin loved this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • October 12, 2008
    "Once you're over that wall, there's no rules, no back-up. Better that way."
    A lot from Escape From New York and Mad Max. And some from Aliens, 28 Days Later, Dawn Of The Dead and even a little from The Warriors. It was pretty okay until it turned medieval, that was just ridicule...( read more)s. And the ending I don't know, are they going for Doomsday 2? Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins and Adrian Lester were good. All in all, a pretty good action movie.
  • October 12, 2008
    Cool film! Hated the fact that they could crack the glass on the full armored tank! Besides that miss they really got the story to work.
  • October 12, 2008
    This movie is one of the most stupid movies I?ve ever seen, and I?ve seen a lot of it. It?s a combination of movies ?I am legend? and ?Mad Max?, wrapped with middle-age knights, all spiced up with music from the ?80s and placed in Scotland and England. So, this movie is SO BAD, i...( read more)t made me so angry that I wanted to burst. The only good thing (or things) are: the ?Bentley? car and the country where it was filmed. Unfortunately, there are TOOOOOOO MAAAAAAANYYYYYYYY bad movies. Meh, what ya gonna do??.So spread the word??.
  • October 11, 2008
    Taken on its own limited terms there is a lot of guilty pleasure to be found in this relentless hyper kinetic thrill ride. Impressive effects and set pieces hurtle along, effectively papering over some painful acting and dialogue.
  • October 11, 2008
    28 Days Later meets Mad Max meets some medieval movie meets *crap*.
  • October 10, 2008
    While it straddles the line between "homage" and "rip off" of films like "Escape from New York" and "Mad Max", Doomsday is well made and exciting enough to make it well worth seeing for genre fans. Also, Bob Hoskins has never been gruffer.

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