Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Tagline: Mankind has an expiration date.
Genre: Action / Science fiction
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Craig Conway
IMDB: Doomsday (2008)
Rating: 
A lethal virus dubbed the reaper virus has hit Scotland. In an attempt to contain the death and misery, a wall is built where the wall of Hadrian used to run, a wall so high that none can get out of Scotland, and none can get in, should they want to. A woman tries to save herself and her little girl, but it is too late for one of them - the little girl (who gets shot in the eye during the rioting) is finally taken out on a helicopter, as one of the soldiers trades his place for hers.
25 years later, the reaper virus resurfaces in London. Having spotted living humans in Scotland via their satellite surveillance, UK government decides to send in a team to try and obtain a cure from a scientist who was shut inside during the initial virus disaster. The team is led by the now not so little girl, Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra). What they find behind the wall is complete mayhem, a new order, led by a man named Sol. The people they find are brutal, savage, even cannibals - and they do not want the London team to find a cure, if such a thing even exists…
My first thought after watching the movie? Uhm. The movie can said to be a blend of 28 Days Later and Mad Max 2, and it also reminds me somewhat of John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. If you’ve seen those three movies, now try picturing them mixed together. Add in some knights, pretty women and an insane stage show, and you’ve got Doomsday, more or less.
Now I’m not saying this is a shitty movie. It’s not. I actually found it quite entertaining. If you’re after a quick bit of crazy action, and you don’t mind the cannibalism (the scene where they barbecued reminded me of Silent Hill), then you might like it too.
“These walls around you; they were built to last, and so shall we. What we’ve built here, from the ashes, is pure blood. Uninfected by the outside world… until now.” - Kane
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May 17th, 2008 at 14:16
Well, I thought the film was disgustingly and unnecessary macabre. Why showing the guns killing the bunny, the cow’s squeezed body under the panzer, the man’s spine, the barbecue…there’s so much disgusting in this film that it only makes it a bad one. I don’t mind those scenes when they add to the movie, like in zombie films or so, but it this one, it didn’t add anything.
The only good thing is the pretty well-trained women. And I’m not lesbian, so it pretty much leaves me with nothing.
May 22nd, 2008 at 22:03
I completely agree about the bunny and the cow - to me those were the worst scenes in the entire movie.