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Doomsday [Blu-ray] [2008]
from Universal Pictures UK
starring Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Rhona Mitra
directed by Neil Marshall

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Rhona Mitra

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 favourite 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. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Terrible. Needs a 'no star' rating.
  Words cannot convey how appalling this film is. It borrows from Underworld, 28 Days / Weeks Later and Mad Max, to name but a few but takes all the tired and overused parts. The journey takes a downward turn after about 5 minutes. Rent if you're curious. Avoid if you like films.

• Wow, how bad was that!!
  I usually love these sorts of films, end of the world and all. But this has to be the worst I have ever soon. At the start it showed allot of promise but then it fell to pieces. It would seem that fashion and technology stopped moving forward in 30 years. Some terrible dialogue, average acting and a story that makes no sense!!! Every "twist" I kept asking myself, like that would happen. Come on, if you do a movie in the future at least make it look/sound plausible! Disgraceful and a complete waste of money!... more info

• Refreshing and a Great Movie!
  After watching Neil Marshall's previous movies, I surely wanted to see this one. Well, it's great. It's fun, violent and it doesn't impose itself as the great movie it is. It's an old-school movie, 80's style and i believe it refreshes the action-packed movies that are not working very well nowadays. Neil's directing is quite superb, sober and precise as the editing. There are no matrix-style camera moves or too much cgi...it was made like 20 years ago. The story and screenplay are simple, but the mixing of... more info

• The sort of british movies we want not another rom com or sub standard crime caper.
  While there is nothing wrong with many british films the industry only seems interested in promoting rom coms and crime flicks, despite the fact that the british genre movies are the most succesful exports. So Neil Marshall has created a great action comedy horror with dog soldiers and a masterpeice of a horror with the descent. Doomsday is his third movie and it deviates from the horror genre, although it has some horror elements. Doomsday is a dumb action sci/fi movie that shamelessly homages (rips off)... more info

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