Doomsday Reviews and Ratings


  • debmm
    June 10, 2009
    debmm
    "If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend"

    Need I say more?
  • midwifewithwoman
    June 9, 2009
    midwifewithwoman
    The gratuitous violence quotient in this movie was just off the scales....loved the concept but the delivery was hideous.
  • McCorpse
    June 6, 2009
    McCorpse
    decent action flick not to memorable though
  • helwigs
    June 4, 2009
    helwigs
    It's really strange so you have to be up for canabalizm and all that sorta thing. It's also a British film, incase you didn't know.
  • threefolddado
    June 4, 2009
    threefolddado
    Neil Marshall has done it again. Combining the elements from the famous late 70s/early 80's sci-fi, he creates a film that both pays homage to those films (specifically Escape From New York, The Warriors, and The Road Warrior) while also creating a violent action film that stand...( read more)s out from the special effects driven extravaganzas Hollywood keeps spewing out. Bloody good fun.
  • MrOrange8590
    June 3, 2009
    MrOrange8590
    oooh a new movie about the end of the world?? no way! i wonder if theres guns.
  • deangeyer5
    June 1, 2009
    deangeyer5
    one of the best end of the world movies iv ever seen!!!!
  • yumtofu
    May 31, 2009
    yumtofu
    Good but could have ended better
  • Brianshutter660
    May 25, 2009
    Brianshutter660
    A throwback to esc to ny and road warrior. This movie packs it all in for a amazing thrill ride one soon will not forget. Kudos to neil marshal for making a old theme feel fresh
  • italiachick
    May 22, 2009
    italiachick
    awesome, it was the perfect movie, great cast, great action and great violence
  • kresentsoonyoung
    May 18, 2009
    kresentsoonyoung
    wow! rhona mitra is the best!
  • The13xxx
    May 12, 2009
    The13xxx
    Not for everyone of course, i won't write review for this one as people will certainly back fire me and think i am nuts. and oh yea, this is better then the over hyped Grindhouse!

    Go, Neil Marshall, Go!

    7/10.
  • christophermjgray
    May 2, 2009
    christophermjgray
    cool idea. it was ok. Love the Bentley in it!
  • bronzlox1
    May 2, 2009
    bronzlox1
    Best thing about this movie is the apocalyptic savages having a rave and partying to Fine Young Cannibals. Good Thing!
  • bspiller
    April 26, 2009
    bspiller
    This was was some great action. The guns, swords, bows, and cars where very good! The main char was very good and played her role very good.
  • BlunoseHun
    April 24, 2009
    BlunoseHun
    Brilliant







    Superb
  • markh2h
    April 23, 2009
    markh2h
    For entertaiment only, do we have something better to do? I guest So
  • tls1972
    April 19, 2009
    tls1972
    Sci-fi fans have seen this story before. A virus that turns people into crazy zombies, in Europe...aka 28 Days Later.
    A future with nasty bikers punks chasing down cars on deserted highways ...aka The Road Warrior. Fights to the death in an arena with crowds sporting mohawks and ...( read more)dirty teeth cheer for blood....aka Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. A land sealed off by a huge wall to keep the infected criminals inside...aka Escape From New York. The Hero is a combination of Snake Plissken meets Victoria Beckham/Posh Spice. I think its was the director's intent to pay tribute to these movies but it just comes off like a tired ripoff.
    Lots of blood and guts but lacks to thrill. Hoskins and McDowell's talents are wasted...as well as the viewer's time.
  • miloboggyhillocks
    April 16, 2009
    miloboggyhillocks
    Excellent futuristic action romp with definite nods to Mad Max and Escape From New York bought to you by the makers of Dog Soldiers and The Descent.
    You know you are gonna get over the top violence and thrills from Neil Marshall so to this end you will be not disappointed.
    Brut...( read more)ally entertaining!
  • Lingerie
    April 14, 2009
    Lingerie
    i need to finish watching this
  • wola
    April 12, 2009
    wola
    Hmmm, this was very reminscent of such films as Mad Max, and quite blatant with its comments on social and political agenda. It took a noticeable dual approach in that the regression into violent cannibalism and medieval punishment, countered each other and at the same time share...( read more)d numerous similarities. I can appreciate the aims of the film, but I found the performances occasionally strained, and somewhat cliche, and in general despite my greatest efforts, the film did not sit too well with me. In spite of this it was fairly good.
  • ninjabusiness
    April 11, 2009
    ninjabusiness
    The first 5 mintues are promising. That's all I saw...

    Time to rent!!
  • tmgevin
    April 11, 2009
    tmgevin
    it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be
  • SergeSergiou
    April 8, 2009
    SergeSergiou
    This film gets better each time I see it
  • httpnateflixtercom
    April 7, 2009
    httpnateflixtercom
    i just got this on blu-ray like a week ago. It has incredible sound;especially for this AWESOME movie. The main character Rhonda Mitra. She was awesome. She really kicked butt. This movie got very sadistic right when they passed the wall. It has lots of action/horror and suspense...( read more) in it. It is very entertaining, i wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't. I recommend this awesome action/horror flick to anyone that wants to enjoy a good ride that makes u sit on the edge of ur seat throughout the whole movie. Buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray u want regret it!
  • phubbs1
    April 7, 2009
    phubbs1
    Where 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) York throw into the bargain. Now so far its an eerie and quite decent horror/sci-fi flick, but things start to go wrong, first of, Scotland has all been left for dead and everyone has suppose to have been dead for along time (30yrs) from the killer virus, but then all of a sudden, people are found roaming around via sat shots....hmmmmm

    OK, send in the elite team lead by a sexy female (Kate Beckinsale wannabe) ala Aliens to get the cure from these people. Hence the now Aliens rip, a team go in being watched by a team on cam and end up in a admittedly very good shoot out with a never ending supply of nasty Scottish weirdos. The team is killed of one by one till the last few are captured, very exciting but very Aliens haha one question that does stand out though is how on earth all theses hundreds of people managed to live n survive in a community like the film shows without being detected for so long?????? and how come so many are immune to the virus??? it was suppose to be a KILLER.

    Anywho, from then we get a very odd Matrix style city of Zion setup with all the locals raving away to the Fine Young Cannibals (80's gold hehe) and eating the captured soldiers, all in a very Mad Max/Rocky Horror costume setup within a concert or arena. The leader of the Scottish cannibals is a direct Mad Max rip of right down to his hair style. He also seems to have a 28 Days Later or Resident Evil style tat on his back which is rather similar to the toxic logo they both use......AND he has his very own gimp in rubber, much like Mad Max 2's Vernon Wells character.

    NOW...from there lots happen (wont spoil) but we now end up in another part of Scotland where the locals are living back in Medival times with horses, knights and Malcolm Macdowell leading them. We now end up with Gladiator style fights and gun battles, oh and a Bentley turns up to.
    lol still with me?
    From there, in the escape form of the Bentley we end the film with a HUGE TOTAL MASSIVE rip of Mad Max 2, quite a gloriously bloody and spot on rip I must say. Its actually a very cool sequence with great cars and fighting but I just cant understand how they got away with it haha its such a copy its untrue. Also, you may wonder how all these crappy cars can keep up with a modern day super Bentley haha it should wipe the floor with the cannibal carriers. After all this the film tends to end on a rather unexplained note, the heroine stays in disease infested Scotland and returns to the cannibal camp to proclaim their leader dead..why?? no sense atall.

    Overall this film is really really good, very tense,exciting, bloody, gorey and has absolutely every element a film could need, they have packed in almost all sci-fi action genres into one film haha bizaare!!
    but it does work and its a good British film if you overlook the outrageous copying of many many classic movies.
    Worth a look for sure.
  • MrBlonde1992
    April 6, 2009
    MrBlonde1992
    Yeah it's a mix of all the big 80s actioners, but this is Neil marshall's Grindhouse; his love letter to the films that inspired him. Tons of fun.
  • ilmouzer
    April 6, 2009
    ilmouzer
    From apocalyptic Scotland to medieval Scotland. It's wasn't fun, it was just a huge rip-off from other prominent well-established films; Mad Max, 28 Weeks Later, Waterworld, Gladiator, Children of Men, A Boy and his Dog.

    Yet it still didn't make any sense...
  • luigibro36
    April 5, 2009
    luigibro36
    ...( read more)/a> - Share Movies Doomsday is an action/scifi/horror/thriller about a country that goes into quarantine when a infection spreads arounds that eats away towards every living organism who tampers with it. Meanwhile, an elite team led by a surviving soldier named Eaden (Rhona Mitra) who goes on assignment to recover a cure that will save humanity. Later on, Eaden & her crew realize that its not going to be so easy contaning the cure when a vicious psychotic leader named Sole is hunting them down along with the rest of his infectious gang. Now, Eaden & her squad must fight against Sole & his gang to stay alive & find the cure before Doomsday comes. I saw Doomsday not knowing what to expect from it. Man was I blown away by how how good this movie turned out. This movie had a whole lot of action, violence & gore in it. It was one the most entertaining movies that I've seen, its that good. Warning, if you cant handle the violence thats in this movie, then you wont enjoy this movie because thats all it really has in it. Also as I was watching it, I noticed it was like Mad Max style which was a cool thing because those movies are awesome and this movie seemed like a remake of it. So that made it even more awesome to watch. Mad Max with a girl as the hero played by Rhona Mitra. She was so fun to watch in this one. Rhona shows what it takes to be a big actress & action star. In the end, this movie was awesome filled with spectacular violent action scenes from the start. For all you that endure action/horror you'll love this flick. Doomsday is a movie to die for thats full of hardcore action thats filled with mindblowing entertainment. 3 1/2 stars
  • martinberntsson
    April 5, 2009
    martinberntsson
    Virus attacking some parts of the british islands? infected people become zombies and attack people? I'm kind of hooked from the start.
    Heroine Posh Spice has left the other spice girls and has enbarked a quest in Scotland.
    all of sudden we are watching "escape from MadMax" and ...( read more)after a run through the narnia tunnel we do expericene low budget lord of the rings/the quest of the holy grail.
    There are tremendous gaps of logic and decent scriptworking in this one, but you have some good fun - there is not enough mad Malcolm McDowell though, I could do with at least one more hour with Malcolm.
  • audrinalove2
    April 4, 2009
    audrinalove2
    I got that MadMaxish feeling in my tummy watching this movie but thats not a bad thing .
    i kinda liked it & Rohna Milta was very good , i like her quite a lot .
  • BlueHornet
    April 4, 2009
    BlueHornet
    Fair...if you have a strong stomach. An elite fighting team must find a cure for a doomsday virus within a post-apocalyptic land with two warring factions. I was expecting the typical bad post-apocalyptic blood fest, filled with vulgar language, packed with non stop action, gra...( read more)vity defying fight scenes, the typical story line, and some awful acting. Surprising, the movie delivered more than I expected, almost to excess, and the acting wasn't half bad to boot. Rhona Mitra as Major Eden Sinclair, did a fair job as the lead action heroine. Malcolm McDowell and Craig Conway portray the leaders of the two warring factions, who both have equally demented views of reality. Craig Conway steals the show and much of the supporting cast held up fairly well. Yet, it would have been better with less cast and more focus on these three main characters. Much of the blood and gore was unnecessary and did not contribute to the story at all. There are some pot-holes in the story, which could have been better explained. Overall, I enjoyed the movie and was entertained, bu tit is not in the same league as such films as Mad Max or I am Legend.
  • BurningSpirit
    March 31, 2009
    BurningSpirit
    Cannibals, fast cars, big Guns, hot chicks & constant gore &explosions all put in a wasteland... all very enjoyable but not original. I found it quite entertaining so it did what it was meant to.
  • jsd35
    March 30, 2009
    jsd35
    I 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)y suggests that the Scots will descend into the kind of barbarism only imagined in Lord of the Flies. The plot is too slight (and too filled with obvious reference to other films), and the script far too weak to sustain the run-time.

    I really hope his next film is better.
  • sh4k1lali
    March 27, 2009
    sh4k1lali
    borin stuff.Zzzzzzzz
  • ZadkielM
    March 22, 2009
    ZadkielM
    typical dystopia...with the eye. exciting
  • the0high0end0of0low
    March 22, 2009
    the0high0end0of0low
    This film surprised me,i was expecting it to be much worse.
    It was made very well for having a budget of 30 million,very well.
  • xtremeandy
    March 20, 2009
    xtremeandy
    Wow I didn't realize this movie had the guy from clockwork orange this is great he areally makes an insaine person look normal!! this movie has it's mindless rage and crazy action and violence is just great in that way but the story makes no sense to at all but it has a lot of ev...( read more)rything and foe all taste!!

    In an apocalyptic vision of the future, authorities brutally quarantine Scotland 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 London. 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. Now, 27 years after the epidemic, groups of survivors are marauding through the streets of Glasgow and the virus has surfaced outside the wall. The British P.M., John Hatcher (Alexander Siddig), and his ruthless chief advisor, Michael Canaris (David O'Hara), have decided to send a covert team into Scotland to search for a cure. On the recommendation of Chief of Police Bill Nelson (Bob Hoskins), Eden is a no-nonsense cop who was evacuated from Scotland as a child. She is told to seek out a scientist named Kane (Malcolm McDowell), who is the most likely survivor to possess the cure. Once within the containment zone, however, she finds that such a task will not be easily accomplished. There are two barbaric factions at war - one led by Kane and the other by his son, Sol (Craig Conway) - and both want Sinclair and her compatriots dead.


    Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

    An elite group of specialists work to prevent a disaster from threatening the future of the human race. In this post apocalyptic thriller the hot female lead character is quested or is actually assigned a mission for the British government, complete with a headquarters full of scifi gadgets into the underbelly of a quarantined society, isolated to Scotland by walls and guns, that has reverted back to a more primal period in time to retrieve a possible virus antidote.

    A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, 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.

    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 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
  • MovieGeek13
    March 19, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    When 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)ght to be. It's completely entertaining, and while it may not have any original ideas, it executes its ideas very well. If you're a fan of Mad Max, Gladiator, Aliens, Escape From New York, or even if you just want to see some senseless violence, this is the action flick for you.
    Neil Marshall, who really breathed some fresh air into the horror genre with The Descent, shows that he has real talent in staging action, in showing off the nicely crafted set designs, and in telling a story that as hollow as it is, it still manages to keep you rooting for the characters.
    Doomsday is not a film for everyone. At best, it'll achieve cult status. But like post-apocalyptic films like Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, or even films like The Descent, I can see Doomsday with a legion of devoted fans for years to come.
  • Dactylion
    March 16, 2009
    Dactylion
    As long as you don't mind a few major flies in the ointment (how do they get a steady supply of hair dye and petrol through the barrier? why didn't they use satellite imagery to get a better idea of how many people were inside the barrier before going inside? why was there a stor...( read more)ehouse conveniently full of modern amenities?) but as a fan of action films, who would mind that? If this sounds like you, then you should find this flick highly entertaining. Lots of explosions and gore-splattering fun.
  • cspanerio
    March 14, 2009
    cspanerio
    A sci-fi action cliché.
  • mzilisch
    March 14, 2009
    mzilisch
    Enjoyable movie with a kick ass car
  • thewillb
    March 10, 2009
    thewillb
    Meh.. nice to see an updated Mad Max 2, but that's really all this was. Good mindless action, though.
  • frbll2005
    March 9, 2009
    frbll2005
    rhona mitra in a leading role. why not?
  • skactopus
    March 8, 2009
    skactopus
    Doomsday. After watching this, I would say that the title is appropriate. Neil Marshall is able to deliver a film that is not for the faint of heart.

    The story is probably the weakest part of this film. By 30 minutes in, the plot is completely gone and forgettable. T

    ...( read more)he same can be said for the character development. The plot that does exist for the first 30 minutes or so is nothing original. There is a virus outbreak (Resident Evil). Rhona Mitra leads a team (Predator) into the unknown to find a vaccine (Resident Evil: Apocalypse). The story plays out this way until somebody gets the pointy end of a pick in the face. Then all hell breaks loose. For the next hour and 15 minutes it is non-stop senseless violence and action. You start out with crazy-a** cannibals in a ruined city and then, before you know it, the film turns into "medieval times" with archers on horseback and fighting in a castle. Soon enough you are on a long highway in an EXPLOSIVE car chase involving a nice Mercedes.

    This movie sounds violent right? Well it is. Bloody and gory describes it nicely. If you don't like to see limbs cut off and blood all over the place stay away from this film. As far as the action goes, there is a ton of it. Guns, arrows, swords, and vehicles. Going back to the car chase that I mentioned earlier. It's been a while since I've seen a car chase that entertaining. What is even more ridiculous is that the Mercedes looks a little too clean after it. If a Mercedes is that tough then I can see why it is so expensive. The only real downside of the action is the editing.

    The acting isn't too bad. The cast comes directly from Dog Soldiers. Not really, but there are at least 5 actors from that film in here. Not to mention that is another one of Neil Marshall's films. The lead, Rhona Mitra, is reminiscent of Kate Beckinsale in Underworld. Definitely a turn on.

    Give this film a watch if all you care about is action and violence.
  • danm5150
    March 7, 2009
    danm5150
    Average apocalypse action flick. Basically a cross between Escape from NY, 28 Days Later and Mad Max, but not as good. I think they actually used the music from both those movies.

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