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Doomsday (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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| Part No: | B00195FUDC |
| Manufacturer: | Universal Studios |
| MFG Part: | MCAD62102024D |
| Customer Rating: | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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Loud, violent, and proudly derivative, the post-apocalyptic action-thriller
Doomsday is the latest from UK cult director Neil Marshall, who impressed horror fans with his previous efforts,
Dog Soldiers and
The Descent. Both pictures established Marshall as a director with a knack for reinventing well-worn genre pictures, but here, he seems more interested in stitching together favorite scenes and elements from established horror and science-fiction films.
Escape from New York is the main source for
Doomsday, though there are plenty of nods to
The Road Warrior and its multitude of Italian-made carbon copies, as well as the zombie/plague subgenre; the lovely but impassive Rhona Mitra is the Snake Plissken-esque loner sent by police (represented by Bob Hoskins) to infiltrate Scotland, which has descended into anarchy following a viral outbreak. The disease has surfaced in London (now a walled city), and Mitra is dispatched to find a scientist who may possess a cure. Marshall's vision of Scotland in ruins brings together the punk/modern primitive costume design of George Miller's
Mad Max trilogy with some eclectic homegrown elements (knights on horseback defending a gang leader's castle), and while these touches are novel, the picture as a whole should ring overly familiar to any viewer who's spent time in the exploitation trenches during the past 25 years. Younger and less discerning audience members will undoubtedly enjoy the plentiful violence and gore, as well as the unbridled performances of the supporting cast, especially stuntwoman/actress Lee-Ann Liebenberg as the heavily tattooed Viper. --
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From the director of The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through the beating heart of hell! To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades. Loaded with ferocious fights and high-octane chases, Doomsday grabs you right from the start, and doesn't let go till its explosive end!
| Great movie! | 2009-01-08 | 5 / 5 |
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| This is an awesome movie fir the genre. Don't listen to the other reviews...this movie ROCKS! Great entertainment. |
| Pretty Good | 2008-12-25 | 5 / 5 |
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| The movie wasnt bad at all.It was fun and action packed. Not much to say, love Rhona's body, inspires me to work out more. |
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What can one say about a film that is a blatant rip-off of so many other films? My recommendation is that instead of wasting your time and money on this film, go out and purchase a hollow point round and try wedging it firmly into your brain(without a gun). That is more entertaining than this film.
Seriously though, i tried to get through this movie on 2 separate occasions, desperately searching for SOME redeeming quality and not only could i not do that, but i couldn't finish watching either. They took 28 days later, land of the dead, escape from new york, mad max, underworld and camelot, splashed in a touch of riverdance(?) and tried to string it all together, rather unsuccessfully i might add. PLEASE, save your time and money and just go watch any of the previous mentioned films instead. If you choose to watch this @$$ fest instead, don't say you weren't warned! |
| Rhona Mitra is great, but the film is a cinematic mess | 2008-12-14 | 3 / 5 |
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Remember when we had no choice but to watch beefed-up, brainless brutes try to save the day in any ultra-violent, post-apocalyptic action thriller? Thank goodness those times have changed, and we can shout the mantra that hotness prevails even as the source of all that hotness goes about kicking the posterior of any man who dares get in her way. I don't know if Rhona Mitra could take out the likes of Milla Jovovich - but I do know that is one catfight I would pay lots of money to see. One thing I do know, however, is that Doomsday is all about Rhona Mitra. Without her, this movie crashes and burns. As others have pointed out, Doomsday is (to put it nicely) highly derivative of several earlier films; the weird thing is that most of those derivative scenes and situations are pretty stupid and over-the-top. Even the great Michael McDowell isn't in the film long enough to make his character's recidivistic little fiefdom believable, but it's the whole Mad Max society that really weighs heavily on this film's overall success (or lack thereof).
One song you won't hear on this film's hard-edged soundtrack is Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper. Everybody fears the Reaper virus, as it has engulfed all of Scotland in a matter of days. Despite serious international ramifications, the British government makes the seemingly sane choice of placing the whole of Scotland in quarantine. I'm not sure how they went about building an elaborate wall all the way across the border of England and Scotland almost overnight, but build it they did, essentially sentencing every inhabitant of Scotland to a horrible death. One of the few souls to escape (albeit without her right eye) grows up to become Britain's hottest female cop - and, thirty years after the Reaper virus outbreak, the person chosen to lead a team of cure-seekers back into the plagued northern lands. It seems the British government has been covering up any and all knowledge of a significant number of survivors existing in Scotland. Now the virus has popped up again - in no less a place than London - so all will be lost if a cure is not discovered very quickly. Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) and her team have less than 48 hours to get in to Scotland, find a source for the cure, and return home to save the day.
The plan goes awry fairly quickly as the team is attacked by a gang of ruffians with really bad haircuts, an obsession with facial tattoos, and absolutely no fashion sense. When they're not doing whatever animalistic morons do, they like to rock out to Fine Young Cannibals music and, on occasion, eat one another. Later on, what's left of the team finds yet another society of loons living quite the mediaeval lifestyle. Holed up in an ancient castle, these guys take the Renaissance Festival lifestyle (Huzzah!) to bold new lows. Malcolm McDowell's talents seem rather wasted on his role as the little fiefdom's leader, and the story quickly reverts back to its strength - gory, nonstop violence.
As long as you look at the script as nothing more than an excuse for stringing together a bunch of bloody fight scenes, you have a good chance of enjoying what you see here. The story itself is hopelessly muddled, a sort of Frankenstein's monster sewn together with different parts of other, easily recognizable movies. That's the real source of frustration among a majority of fans. Director Neil Marshall raised the bar quite high with his two previous films, Dog Soldiers and The Descent (Unrated Widescreen Edition). Very much unlike those two films, Doomsday is little more than a mindless ode to violence and unoriginality. |
| Reinventing the past | 2008-12-06 | 4 / 5 |
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Sure as the review says this movie brings back actual strong comparisons to the Road Warrior mostly then Escape from New York.
But the director has flair. I'll give him that.
But what I have to say Is It has It's original moments. It also starts out with a bang and continues It's fast pace of action throughout the film. It Is one entertaining ride. And If comparing It to similar movies It stands on It's own. This movie has good sets etc everything going for It. I think It's biggist lack Is of characters we can care less about. I even see glimpses of early Sam Rami work so this director Is someone to watch. |
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