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Doomsday (2008)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 33

Doomsday is a pale imitation of previous futuristic thrillers, minus the cohesive narrative and charismatic leads.

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 7

Doomsday is a pale imitation of previous futuristic thrillers, minus the cohesive narrative and charismatic leads.

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 83,724

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Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desperate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neil Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Few could have foreseen the terror that the microorganism known as "Reaper" would unleash upon the unsuspecting population, and when terrified authorities

Jul 29, 2008

$11.0M

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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (39) | DVD (10)

Marshall's adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon.

November 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Marshall's mash note to '80s postapocalyptic action-adventures re-creates the era's trashy pleasures with such scrupulous fidelity -- and distinct lack of irony -- that you'd swear the movie was unearthed from the ruins of a Times Square grind house.

July 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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[Director] Marshall cribs whole sections from other movies (Aliens and The Road Warrior, most blatantly) so baldly that you have to wonder how he'd like it if someone ripped off The Descent this egregiously.

March 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it.

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Most fantasy-action films blow their budgets in the first half-hour, and limp home with their makeup smeared. Doomsday is unusually patient, smartly saving most of its fireworks for the later innings.

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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If you can accept this farrago of nonsense, and enjoy simulated beheadings and lopped-off hands and massive spurts and splashes of blood, this may be the movie for you.

March 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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I somehow ended up admiring "Doomsday" for being the most unapologetically ridiculously, preposterous action movie I've ever seen.

August 29, 2012 Full Review Source: Lyles' Movie Files
Lyles' Movie Files

In terms of sheer excitement, it's the best movie of 2008.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

As it slogs through one hectic yet mundane set pieces after another, the film slowly drowns in its own pool of clichés.

March 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

Violent action flick paints a grim, bloody future.

May 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Doomed

December 27, 2008 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review
3BlackChicks Review

One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Doomsday might seem novel - if you've never seen "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," "Escape from New York" or any other post-apocalyptic flick before.

August 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Times
Washington Times

... piles on the clichés and plot complications without adding anything interesting (let alone distinctive or memorable).

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com
MSN.com

Apparently Marshall was munching on a serious dosage of Escape from New York pills when manufacturing Doomsday, resulting in not only a comatose actioner, but a derivative one as well.

July 29, 2008 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com
BrianOrndorf.com

Apparently, even the individuals behind the film recognize how redundant Doomsday is, going so far as to point out the far better examples it rips off in order to achieve its throwback tedium.

July 27, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Forget about trying to follow the preposterous plotline of this insult to the intelligence, unless you want to laugh out loud.

July 25, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Doomsday gives this tired genre a shot in the arm by playing it up with old school adoration.

July 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Horror.com
Horror.com

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.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique

Doomsday possède définitivement toutes les caractéristiques d'un film culte en devenir, même si celles-ci nous laissent toujours en tête une curieuse impression de déjà vu.

July 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Panorama

A tribute to the early 1980s anarchy actioners The Road Warrior and Escape From New York, Neil Marshall's Doomsday also blends elements from 28 Days Later for a fun and ultra-violent action-sci-fi-kinda-horror film.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter
ESplatter

Get your Mad Max mutant-maniacs-in-monster-machines on.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com
MovieCrypt.com

The movie doesn't disguise the fact that this is a loving homage to early 80's science fiction cult classics.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Sin Magazine
Sin Magazine

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.

June 4, 2008 Full Review Source: The Cinema Source

Audience Reviews for Doomsday

Halfway thru this movie I realized I was having a lot of fun watching a sci-fi action movie that I thought was going to be horrible. We are talking a lot of 'road warriorish' rip off here but all in all it was a decent time.
September 3, 2008
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The downside is not a question of whether Doomsday is an interesting or entertaining film, or both. Because it's been crafted with so much energy, style and good heartedness. The problem overall is that it lacks a cohesive narrative to support the eye popping beauty of it's surface visuals. The less exhilarating flaw however is how terribly ordinary it is. And how unremarkable it is in comparison to the numerous futuristic thrillers that it decides to borrow from. Rhona Mitra didn't help at all because her performance is simply an utterly charmless and less thrilling impression of Kate Beckinsale in Underworld. I know that it isn't a great start to the review, but the film offers plenty of reasons why it should be recommended. While incredibly stupid and wildly derivative, it is a real heart-racer of a film. Neil "Dog Soldier" Marshall's tremendously fast paced direction is an impressive and quite welcome change to his usual restrained but nevertheless amazing directorial talent. His previous films "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent" were claustrophobic works of art. This is a rip roaring and hilarious action horror that delivers the thrills but falls at the expense of a likable heroine and developed character arcs. Marshall's previous films boasted all of the above, and their absence dissapointed me. I have always kept high expectations for him because he is one of the best directors of our time. Although Doomsday is certainly not a classic, it is also never dull. It has all of the breathtaking, explosive qualities that Hollywood films should have. That is a good thing, but it also means that the things good about it are generic. The heartbreaking downside for me was the disappearance of the flawlessness of his earlier films. As they say, you can't have too much of a good thing. I think Doomsday is a fun, messy, flawed, dark and gritty film. It has variable qualities and ideas that fit and others that don't. But it passes in terms of living up to the strength of it's convictions. It's well designed, underated, action packed and purely badass.
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