Doomsday (2008)
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Remember, how you've enjoyed the action movies from the 80's? In the 80's, yes, because action cinematography has evolved and so did the directors, the actors and the plot too... and even if you take all the power ingredients from the 80's they just look super lame nowadays...
A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race. Doomsday is one of those films that have a good concept but it's executed pretty poorly for example the movie doesn't know what it wants to be is it an action film? a survival film? a zombie film? a post apocalyptic film? or a horror film? It mixes so many things together that your head starts hurting after a while you basically go from a bunch of crazy people to knights and infected dudes trying to break inside a building. The acting and the characters are fine but that isn't enough to save the movie. (5/10)
At this point I have already been a fan of writer/director Neil Marshall, as I have already seen Dog Soldiers and The Descent and are among my favorite modern horror films. Doomsday is Neil Marshall's take on the post apocalyptic action/science fiction genre. The film is mostly a combination of 28 Days Later, Escape From New York and The Road Warrior. The film brings us back to the good ole' days(the 80's) and is a highly entertaining and blood soaked action fest that I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish. The flick is a little campy, but looks great and favors practical f/x and delivers huge with tons of great gory action. Rhona Mitra is our gorgeous lead and is very effective here as a female equivalent to Snake Pliskin. She does well in the fights and gives a very good performance here as the lead in this film. Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell appear as well and are awesome as well. While there is a whole lot of stuff made that just does'nt appeal to me, Doomsday is totally the type of movie that at least, I want to see. I am sure this won't be the sort of film that gets awards, but it gets a thumbs up from me and is awesome in my book.
Neil Marshall's Doomsday is a bloody, balls to the wall homage to several different kinds of films, and while it may wear it's influences on its sleeve with complete lack of subtlety that some will read as being derivative, it's still a blast of B-movie fun with some neat set pieces and heaps of nasty ultra violence. It's basically 28 Days Later, Mad Max, Escape From New York and Need For Speed all rolled into one package. When a ravaging virus attacks the UK, a giant, impenetrable wall is built around Scotland to act as a quarantine. Years later when the disease resurfaces, British parliament sends in a team of mercy to gain the knowledge from survivors within the wall and hopefully find a cure. Rhonda Mitra, channels a tougher Lara Croft as Eden Sinclair, a warrior extraordinaire who heads the team with grit and grace, mentored by a cranky Bob Hoskins. Closely watched by slimy, untrustworthy politician Canaris (David O Hara is all scum under a lake of ice) they venture into bonny Scotland and find themselves in way over their heads. From there it's a dizzying parade of car chases, battles with marauding cannibal savages, road warrior style mayhem, and a visit to ex scientist turned medieval despot Marcus Kane (Malcolm McDowell) in his remote castle, setting the stage for a fight that's straight out of gladiator. It's all fairly preposterous, but the movie couldn't care less and blasts along on its own wild trajectory like a Rottweiler let off its leash in a furniture shop. Mitra makes a solid heroine, and the villainous turns from both McDowell, O Hara and live wire Craig Conway as the cannibal's brutal chieftain are super fun. Marshal has an eye for staging especially violent action, and with a film that wants to give shout outs to three of the most violent films ever made, he's the guy for the job. Not a great movie, but a neat, nasty little slice of smash and burn action fireworks that will put a fore poker to your pulse.