Doomsday Reviews and Ratings


  • 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.
  • yantonisirait
    March 5, 2009
    yantonisirait
    h..bad movie.
    i thought this movie as same as resodent evil but with better efect & story, but it seems like movie in 1990. alien better than this movie i think
  • thirdcrab
    March 3, 2009
    thirdcrab
    SUCKS!! the title is did not match with the story..
  • mega7b
    March 1, 2009
    mega7b
    Stop me if you've heard this one before. A horrendous virus sweeps through a nation, killing millions, while the remaining infected people are quarantined behind a giant wall. After about 30 years, the government spots some people living in the streets within the wall and send an...( read more) elite fighting team behind enemy lines "led by a woman with impressive breasts" in order to bring back the apparent "cure" for the apocalyptic virus. What follows is a smorgasbord of movie plotlines that you've loved BEFORE. Oh and tons of killings!
    The film, really is justa mashed-up variety of other movies & no more...
  • chibimina7
    March 1, 2009
    chibimina7
    pretty cool action. disgusting infected victims. lots of gore and cannibalism. not for the faint of heart.
  • love4eva88
    February 26, 2009
    love4eva88
    movie which really make me scare... oh my God if that happen here... hell in earth :(
  • reneeunderground
    February 26, 2009
    reneeunderground
    It was so wierd and gorry.
  • bobba66
    February 26, 2009
    bobba66
    I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic flicks...and enjoyed this one...I loved the mix of the different post-apocalyptic settings...virus infected...cannabaliistic freaks...medieval etc...the action was top notch...story moved well enoguh for me..Just a good popcorn flick in my opinon...
  • TehWaffleMonster
    February 21, 2009
    TehWaffleMonster
    It was okay...but not that great.
  • kpac
    February 20, 2009
    kpac
    Worst movie so far and by far in 2008. If you've seen excape from new york, excape from L.A., and Gladiator, you've seen doomsday already. And this isn't just a homage like some critics call it, its a complete rip off of those three movies and a couple more I forgot to mention. O...( read more)ne of the most unoriginal ideas yet from some of the music scores to the visuals, and even main plot lines that were copied and inserted into this piece of crap. I'm surprised they didn't suied for this one. Basically change Snake from Excape from New York and L.A. and change it to a female with troops and change the quartened criminals to quartened infected people. The only thing I can say that was good was that the main character was hott, but a movie consists of so much more to make it at least ok, and Doomsday is far from it. Pop some popcorn, rent or buy escape from New York , escape from L.A., and if you can fit other in, rent Gladiator, The Warriors, Mad Max, snd The Road Warrior, but never, I repeat never fall for this crappy catastraphy.
  • markoseppanen
    February 20, 2009
    markoseppanen
    Just what I hoped and expected. But don't let the plot/synopsis 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 zombies in this movie.
    Take one scene, thing or feel...( read more)ing 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 too copycat. Moreover 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!
  • jansonsteffan
    February 19, 2009
    jansonsteffan
    A decent on-time watch. Not much replay value, but a pretty good film.
  • organgrinder136
    February 18, 2009
    organgrinder136
    mad max and escape from new york mixed with a touch of 28 days later is what's brought to you here by neil marshall, director of dog soldiers and the descent. doomsday is another thoroughly entertaining delight with such a wealth of luxurious and exuberant characters. detailed fi...( read more)lm making at its best!
  • bluekiller2025
    February 17, 2009
    bluekiller2025
    I'm defiantly mixed about this movie. looks like a rip off of mad max and twisted metal. But kinda looks neat.
  • Gainsfilm
    February 17, 2009
    Gainsfilm
    5/10. I quite enjoyed this film.Not what I expected. Its kind of a cross between Mad Max and Escape from New York. You will enjoy if not taken too seriously.
  • DouglasWCollins
    February 16, 2009
    DouglasWCollins
    Another disease zombie looks like it was made from a videogame waste of my time
  • Davidc
    February 15, 2009
    Davidc
    this star is for the begining and the v.o of malcom mcdowell
  • rylanjp
    February 15, 2009
    rylanjp
    A fun but deliberately dumb movie with nothing original
  • BlackEngine
    February 10, 2009
    BlackEngine
    While I was not really a very big fan of Neil Marshall?s first cult film Dog Soldiers, I found myself intensely enjoying his follow-up, The Descent. After The Descent stumbled at the box office but picked up a fan following, his latest film Doomsday caught a bit of buzz.

    As expe...( read more)cted, Doomsday fell somewhere between The Descent and Dog Soldiers in my spectrum of movies. The film tells a familiar story ? a sudden virus infects the human population. In this version, the government has managed to quarantine the virus in Scotland by literally sealing off the country from the rest of the world.

    However, 25 years after the quarantine, the virus has popped up again, this time in London. In order to save the world and political face, the Prime Minister sends a band of soldiers over the wall into Scotland to make contact with the survivors and bring back the cure. Leading the charge is Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), whose mother was abandoned in the hot zone at the height of the quarantine.

    Anyone who has seen Marshall?s movies will instantly recognize his style: visceral, bloody and violent. I suppose it?s not unwarranted, but there?s an awful lot of splattering going on. And, in the Dog Soldiers fashion, the film is packed with powerful, explosive action that doesn?t go over the top, but it definitely climbs right up to the precipice.

    Like his other films, the story is rather simple. It?s not plot you look for in these movies, but rather the action and the wild ride, and Doomsday delivers that ride extremely well. Still, Doomsday has a bit more to it, paying homage to many different films in and around the genre. In fact, the best way to relate to the film is to follow the patchwork of films it represents.

    The most noticeable correlation is to The Road Warrior and 28 Days Later. But Marshall gives a nod to a whole slate of action, sci-fi and horror throughout the film. It begins as 28 Days Later, then moves into an Aliens motif as the military team is decked out in armor and tanks before being attacked.

    The film erupts into a war of attrition that takes place over 48 hours. From Aliens, the characters are stripped down and enter a world eerily similar to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. After a brief jump back into 28 Days Later, the movie takes an unexpected turn into the BBC?s latest Robin Hood series. After all, who wouldn?t take refuge in a castle in Scotland.

    After a brief flirt with Gladiator, the movie rolls underground to pick up some love for From Dusk ?Til Dawn, then blasts back on the screen with some Death Proof shots. Finally, things roll out in a Road Warrior smack-down with dashes of Land of the Dead and I Am Legend thrown in for good measure.

    While far from perfect, Doomsday can be a blast if you like the action, like the violence, endure the language and like watching Rhona Mitra strut around in tight, black spandex. In fact, Mitra owns the movie throughout, channeling Kate Beckinsale from the Underworld series. It?s no surprise that she?s been tapped to do the third installment of the vampire/werewolf saga.

    Sadly, Doomsday wasn?t screened for the press and isn?t enjoying a huge release. It will probably get destroyed by the family-favorite (and great movie in its own right) Horton Hears a Who, leaving Neil Marshall to have to prove himself yet again outside of his die-hard audience.
  • julleponge
    February 10, 2009
    julleponge
    Démoniaque....

    ''Si vous avez la dalle, bouffé un morceau d'votre pote !''
  • engee
    February 10, 2009
    engee
    yuks. but nice. no zombie.
  • Anna18V
    February 9, 2009
    Anna18V
    You really don't want to see that...
  • elegantfire
    February 8, 2009
    elegantfire
    Gud ACTION ScEnEs .........! Gud gestres and nice flick Complete entertainment...
  • jimrin
    February 7, 2009
    jimrin
    I was pleasantly surprised by this movie.
  • RossCollinsUK
    February 7, 2009
    RossCollinsUK
    Mark H said it was good fun in a "28 days later" vein...
  • Jedi6789
    February 7, 2009
    Jedi6789
    kind of mad max meets resident evil
  • Yeolita
    February 6, 2009
    Yeolita
    Though Sci-fi in its content it also seems slasher-ish in presentation. Set in the UK it has some of that 28 days later overtones and uses technology very convincingly It seems that we are not fer from this future sometimes and therein in the film IMO seems disturbing. This is ...( read more)what happens when children drag up themselves into adults with no parents to align them. All former knowledge and experience is lost [grazing fat cows] and the new society bourne out of it is also at a lost [they are starving]. The heroine, unlike them was lucky to gain the knowledge of civilization, and finds the humanity within a set of canibalistic and undiscipline homo sapiens. There is hope for then to become human...Will there be a follow-up movie?
  • rabbit2006
    February 5, 2009
    rabbit2006
    was ok but not great

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