Doom (2005)

Admirable film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Blistering performances.

Come on, who honestly thought this was a good idea? Of all the video games to adapt with decent storylines, Universal chose a first-person horror shooter. *sigh*...oh dear. Loosely based off the video game with the same name, a squad of 'Rapid Response Tactical Soldiers' are called to a research station on Mars after a distress call. What they find is a legion of nightmarish creatures that lurk behind every corner. Nearly everything about this film is terrible. I do admire the scene that imitates the POV of the protagonist as he goes round shredding gruesome monsters with bullets and a chainsaw. Replicating the game's famous FPS aesthetics, the Mars station was a fitting environment. Aside from those small positives...yikes! This was just bad. The whole purpose of the Doom franchise was that demonic enemies from Hell were attacking. In this atrocity, the story is altered so that these creatures were synthetically created from an additional chromosome. So yes, the enemies are actually human. Why abolish the original story? What could you possibly gain from that? If the film is bad enough for the average moviegoer, then your only target audience is the fan base. Change the story, and you've lost the fans as well! To say the acting was below average is too kind. It's terrible. Clearly The Rock was not always box office gold, as he was horrendous in this. No emotion, stiff as cardboard and constantly hoisting his giant gun up at an attempt at being a badass. Karl Urban was generic. Rosamund Pike deserves better than this. Some of the visual effects were good and I applaud the use of practical effects, particularly the costumes for the creatures. The script was tedious, the characters are constantly shouting what they are about to do or what they are thinking. The lighting was dimmer than a 12th Century gothic Transylvanian castle, could hardly see a thing. Quick cuts, bad editing...I'm done. No more. Doom should simply be titled "Doom and Gloom". I can think of worst films, but this is abysmal. No question.

Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines. Doom is one of the few Dwayne Johnson films that i never got the pleasure to see the time that they were released or at least some years later now i just finished the film and i gotta say it was pretty "Ok", i loved The Rock playing a crazy Marine and Karl Urban's First Person Shooter Scene although a bit weird it was quite fun in general. The acting is pretty good and the monsters look realistic enough, the dialogue is cheesy and most of the time the film is pretty dark something along the lines of AVPR. It's not a perfect film it drags at parts and it's kinda boring at others but the acting is really good and i loved the fact that the Rock got to play the bad guy for once in his career and his transformation was pretty damn cool and honestly this movie isn't that bad it's not a masterpiece but it isn't that bad if you don't take it seriously i think you're gonna have fun with it. (6.6/10)

*Spoiler/plot- Doom, The Movie, 2005. A frantic call for help from a Martian remote research station sens a team of mercenary Marines into action. Their leaders descend to the Olduvai Govt station, where they find a legion of nightmarish creatures. Once there these Marines must use an arsenal to get out alive.*Special Stars- Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Dexter Fletcher.*Theme- Teamwork wins battles.*Trivia/location/goofs- Film promotes the popular self person POV shooter computer game.*Emotion- Sadly due to the overt way the camera frame shows & tells the plot, this film suffers from believably and therefore any horror. Kidda a shallow gimmicky film of little watch ability. A shame.*Based On- Base on the hugely popular video game.

One of the best game adaptation movie beside Resident evil! I really love the movie. And since i also played the game, i have no complaint about this. Well, although the story is predictable, but it is well executed. And it teaches you that no one knows the human heart. If you are a good person, then you'll be better. If you are bad, then welcome the monster. If you are into an action-horror genre, this is the right movie for you. You will be pleased with the action scene and the martial arts also. And there's a part when it's just like in the game, where the camera took the point of view from the main character, and it's like you who shoot the zombie monster. And it's cool!