If you're in the right mood, though, it's also hugely entertaining.
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03/17/08
Doomsday (2008)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:30
Rotten:33
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Doomsday is a pale imitation of previous futuristic thrillers, minus the cohesive narrative and charismatic leads.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $10,955,425
Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Marshall earned the respect of horror devotees with his first two features, DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, refreshing and scary twists on the werewolf and expedition-gone-wrong... [More]
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig
Director: Neil Marshall
Reviews for Doomsday
Delivers the exploitation goods and then some, but it's so utterly derivative it represents a depressing step backward for Marshall...
03/21/08
Doomsday typifies the kind of movie that gets dumped into theaters during the late winter -- a regurgitated storyline, no big stars, and no real prospects at the box office.
03/14/08
The sort of rough-and-tumble B-movie Hollywood just doesn't know how to deal with.
03/14/08
A bit like a medley of greatest hits performed by a hot, young talent who brings a new vocal inflection to the tired, old standards.
07/10/08
Brimming with exploitation antics, grindhouse sensibilities and, heh heh, exploding bunnies, Doomsday conjures a future thrown back to the dead-end styles and amoral excesses of the eighties - and no future could be bleaker than that.
05/09/08
The acting is better than adequate, and Rhona Mitra is very good as the jaded heroine. As loud, relentless, chaotic, brutally violent and gory B-movies go, this one is a keeper.
03/17/08
Nothing about Marshall's grab bag has much to do with anything else...it may be aimless and arbitrary, but at least it's mostly fun.
03/20/08
One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.
08/06/08
Even the two fanboys behind me - who almost reached orgasm during the Speed Racer preview - laughed and yelled "What?!" when shown both a gimp and a medieval pit fight.
03/15/08
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
03/14/08
Doomsday isn't quite memorable or enthralling enough.
03/16/08
Here's a gorefest that also includes a little story line.
03/14/08
When the film's unspooling and we're watching Rhona Mitra drive a sports car through an exploding bus, we find ourselves in movie geek heaven.
04/01/08
It's a mishmash of homages to writer/director Neil Marshall's favorite B movies. That doesn't make it bad at all, though; it ends up being quite entertaining.
06/04/08
I can't support or defend Doomsday in the slightest. But it's also the most fun I've had at the movies in weeks. If you're in the mood for sheer sensation without the slightest bit of intelligence, this is the flick for you.
03/14/08
Let's just say that I've built more climactic medieval battles with a set of Legos during my childhood.
03/17/08
Marshall delivers what he promises and Mitri makes for a cool, kick-arse heroine in the Ellen Ripley mold.
03/14/08
As the crowd screams and pounds their chests, the camera shows Eden's back. It's a grim resolution, even in the post-apocalypse.
03/21/08
As scattered as it is senseless.
03/14/08
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