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....
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)
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
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)
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.
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.
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)
A disappointing pastiche of other genre films without an identity of its own. You say 'homage' I say 'out of ideas.'
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)
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.
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)
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.
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)
Another favorite of 2008. I really need to own this. No apocylptic collection should be without.
at exactly what stage of production did this sound like a good idea?! a cheap mess, in both looks and thrills.
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...
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)
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)
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)
Perhaps with a bigger budget, better actors, and a better script this could've been a cult favorite rather than just a gory mess.
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)
Oh come on, it was good to munch popcorn to. Just ignore the gaping plot holes and enjoy.
In the tradition of Mad Max and Escape from New York this film was a surprise package.
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)
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
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.
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.
"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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
