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Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Dolly Peppers I don't typically like to leave wholly negative reviews but what the crap this movie was all kinds of terrible. The writing was seriously sub-par which dragged the already meh story down a few hundred notches, the acting varied from just okay to awful, and the idea itself was bad.First it seems like it's going to be an epidemic movie to the tune of 28 Days Later, or maybe the Resident Evil franchise. Whatever the plague is, it's fast and ugly. We fast forward in time somewhat while listening to an overly dramatic and irritating voice-over into a futuristic dystopia. So that's our movie right? WRONG! Suddenly we dive into a coke-induced Mad Max apocalypse, where people have been cut off for 30 years from all contact with the outside world yet still manage to gather hairstyling supplies so they can gel and dye their enormous mohawks. Did I mention they eat people? Because they mention they eat people, about half a hundred times. We get it, these Road Warrior rejects are cannibals. We didn't need the several minutes of them cooking and eating one of the soldiers to know that. So these are our antagonists. But wait no! Our headstrong heroine escapes the band of multicolored man-eaters only to find a renaissance fair has established itself in a nearby castle, run by one of the most obviously evil doctors I've ever seen and his scowling henchman. They host a Gladiator style fight with the protagonist and a really bulky armored dude, which of course she wins because she's the protagonist and in the process of escaping one of her fellow soldiers(whom the directing seems to think is her love interest by the way they shoot the scenes) gets pumped full of arrows thanks to this universe's version of the Sheriff of Nottingham or whatever he's supposed to be. So our knock-off Alice avenges him and-oh wait no she doesn't. They just leave. They don't bother to take out the King Arthur wannabe or anything.Now it's the return of the punk rock people-eaters, as they somehow manage to gather together the prop cars that were abandoned Beyond Thunderdome and there's a car chase with far too many explosions and not enough reason why or how they're here.Finally the REAL VILLAIN is revealed! Oh no the obviously evil guy with the dark sunglasses and government connections who has been dropping hints the whole movie about how he orchestrated the quarantine breech was behind it all? You don't say. But our girl records him with her prosthetic eye-cam(which was the only part of the movie I liked) and thus the day is saved! Our hero can find her mom! Or not, maybe she'll find a decapitated head and get herself elected queen of the cannibals. THE END.Everything that is good about this movie is cribbed from better movies. There's a fine line between paying homage and ripping things off and Doomsday staggers drunkenly all over the line before sliding over it like it's home plate. Neil Marshall what happened man? I liked Dog Soldiers. The Descent was fine for the first half of the movie. Why is spew out this garbage? Bob Hoskins is wasted in his small role as Eden's mentor and Alexander Siddig is even more wasted as a character whose sole purpose seems to be to kill himself so a suicide can be carefully shot. Why?Don't watch this movie. Watch Road Warrior instead. Watch Gladiator instead. Watch anything else but this movie.

CynicalFIN I might be a late comer for this film and Doomsday was released in 2008. It was directed by Neil Marshall who's work include The Descent, Dog Soldiers and some TV episodes. I've seen Dog Soldiers before this and loved it, so I was actually interested at Doomsday, as Neil Marshall seems to love 80's movies a lot. Dog Soldiers was pretty much a homage to 80's horror films and Doomsday obviously takes influence from Mad Max but also seems to add some elements from 28 Days Later (great film).Doomsday doesn't seem to be known by most people and was a box office disappointment and after seeing Doomsday, I wasn't surprised why it failed.Doomsday starts out great as we see that there is a dangerous disease called, Reaper virus, which kills most of the infected. UK government isolates Scotland by building a large wall near Hadrian's wall (I think). This causes diplomatic problems with the rest of the world among other issues like civil unrest and unemployment. After 25 years (or 27 or 30, I don't know. The information is conflicted), Reaper virus is found on London. Quarantines take place and most likely isn't going to hold long, so other measures should be taken. It it revealed that Scotland has survivors, meaning that there should be a cure and government sends a small group to find it.By now it's clear that Doomsday isn't very logical film and it's suppose to be like old B-movies. It doesn't make sense most of the time, but doesn't take itself too seriously. To put it simply, stupid fun. I would argue that it works for the first half, but the moment action starts behind the walls, Doomsday becomes a mess. Too many illogical situations come and go, along with the action. This wouldn't necessary be a bad thing for this kind of film, but there's so many fast cuts and poorly paced music, it becomes annoying. It's sad because I actually found the previous moments very interesting and even creepy. There were high stakes finding the cure and we do see some moments of total chaos in London (unlike in misleading trailer, it didn't have the time to spread to whole region).There are so many questions left after seeing the film. I know it's suppose to be silly on purpose but it's not silly in a good way. For example: 1. How did Reaper Virus got into London sewers without infecting people that are near Scotland. I assumed it was smugglers, but why would they go to Scotland and wasn't it the most heavily guarded places on earth? If it was the government sector that did it, wouldn't it make sense to send a squad to get the cure before releasing Reaper virus to London? 2. How did cannibals come up a good plan against two armored vehicles? Did they have scouts all over the place? They just suddenly come out of nowhere like they are ghosts or something. Also, why was it a good idea to bring that one woman inside the vehicle when it was SO OBVIOUS that she was a bait. 3. How did cannibals and medieval-like knights (seriously) find the good guys so easily? It happens three times and they somehow organized everything.4. What were good guys trying to do after finding out that former doctor (played by Malcolm McDowell) has gone crazy. I understand why the lead female intentionally got caught, but what were they trying to do before getting caught? Did they try to approach the castle or something else? There are other problems, but I don't have enough time and space to mention all of them.I can live with the wall building speed and unrealistic tribes with great amount of fuel and resources even after 25 years, but adding too much silly moments while trying to keep a serious tone can break the film. I just don't think that same magic can be added to modern movies unlike in 70's and 80's. Dog Soldiers is an exception, but somehow Marshall, with his team, failed to capture the 80's in Doomsday. There are definitely good moments in Doomsday, which is why I give Doomsday a 4/10, like the first half of the film, special effects were top notch (hard to tell difference between practical effects and CGI) and action wasn't bad until the final action sequence (which did have one shot that was awesome). Casting was surprisingly good even if dialogue was slightly cringe-worthy. Actors did fine job with the material they were given; Bob Hoskins' character being my favorite. The moments when we see Reaper virus affecting people were honestly creepy and I wished the film would've shown more. Doomsday does forget what it's suppose to be and tries too hard to be 80's film.I wouldn't give a 4/10 and instead give it a perhaps 7/10 or 8/10 if the film keep the tone and atmosphere of the first half. Too long action setup without breaks with continuous action music playing in the background and fast editing just hurt my ears and eyes. Just because you make quick edits and add music to a scene, it doesn't make a good action film. The last half was really that bad.

Anonymous Andy (Minus_The_Beer) It's "Escape From New York" meets "The Road Warrior" by way of "28 Days Later" in "Doomsday". Director Neil Marshall's ("The Descent") post-apocalyptic homage to the above mentioned (and more) plays it pretty fast and loose with plot and logic, never once slowing down for character-building as it jumps from one wild set piece to another. It's a film that seemingly has no attention span, never feels terribly cohesive, and yet never fails to entertain.It's the year 2035 and a virus has all but decimated Scotland. In an attempt to contain and control the virus, the government builds a wall separating the ravaged country from the rest of Britain. Presumably, they made Scotland's ravaged population pay for the wall themselves. Enter hardened officer Eden Sinclair, as played by Rhona Mitra. Part Sarah Connor, part Snake Plissken, Sinclair (and her faceless team) is tasked with re-entering the ravaged region to hunt down a possible cure for the virus. Along the way, she matches wits with the locals who include but are not limited to a group of "Mad Max" rejects and a game Malcolm McDowell (who also provides the film's lengthy expository narration). Butts are kicked and blood is shed, to say the least.Marshall knows what kind of film he is making and he also knows you've seen this film a hundred times before. Appropriately, he takes glee in his film's excess, going full Paul Verhoeven at times in embracing over-the-top gore and laugh-out-loud ultra-violence. This is a film made for the genre fan whose bread is buttered by '80s action, sci- fi and horror. It's pure homage of the highest order; a grindhouse- esque onslaught of tackiness and titillating tension. "Doomsday" never quite rises above its source material, and that's OK. As far as mindless, late-night entertainment goes, few modern films get the formula down as well as this glorious cheesefest does.

Fella_shibby I saw this with my dad in a theatre in 2008. As a fan of Neil Marshal, I enjoyed it. His Dog soldiers n The Descent r very good horror films. I found this flick to be a very entertaining n action packed. It was like Mad max on steroids. This movie is a pure adrenaline rush with lots of action and suspense, violence and gore. Its an over-the-top grindhouse epic. A homage to Mad max, Escape from New York, Death race, 28 days later. Awesome visual effects. The pacing is very good. Action n horror fans will not b disappointed. The gore was excellent n top notch. The action is superb, the car chase is excellent with lots of body count n superb camera work n loud music. Mitra is gorgeous, the cinematography is excellent. Pure action n entertainment at its best. Bought a DVD of it recently. Need to revisit. Need to check the hot babe Lee-Anne Liebenberg.