Doomsday Reviews

I somehow ended up admiring "Doomsday" for being the most unapologetically ridiculously, preposterous action movie I've ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: C+

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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.

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spintati pseytokaltia, poy o,ti yposhetai sto dinei aplohera

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

After they blow a bunny to smithereens (aiming straight through a plot hole), I knew all bets were off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The only thing that saves Doomsday from complete disgrace is that it knows it's trash.

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...just the umpteenth killer-virus movie of the last few years...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Likely to be the year's most entertaining film withheld from critics, Neil Marshall's latest finds him pigging out at a B-movie buffet of bangers and mash. His alchemy of anarchy in the U.K. is exhilarating and playfully perverse.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4