Rating of
2/4
Not As Good
chiggles - wrote on 05/31/08
A lot of horror fans have found a respect for writer/director Neil Marshall, as he has brought us two great horror films, Dog Soldiers and The Descent. So when we all hear news that Neil Marhsall is doing yet another horror movie, we got really excited. Doomsday tells about a killer virus called "The Reaper", in which swept over Scotland sometime in the future. The army built up a giant wall around Scotland to keep people out and in, but the virus ended up spreading some 30 years later, and a supposed cure is held up inside the wall. A task force is sent in to retrieve it, but they found something worse then they bargained for.
Doomsday is sort of a bunch of movies combined, for example Mad Max and 28 Weeks Later. It takes place in sort of a post apocalyptic future, so director Neil Marshall had come up with a gang sort of, reminding me of the punk scene of the 70's and 80's with their tattoos, piercings and leather attire. This is one thing the movie did a good job with, was the basic make up and clothing design. Most of the characters have crazy hair designs like mohawks, spikes and such. Their clothing and piercing also range in strangeness, as theyre noses, cheeks, ears, nipple, belly buttons and more are pierced in strange fashions.
Marshall always does a grea job with all of the gore effects in his movies. Doomsday is certainly bloody, as this future is rough. At the beginning of the movie, we get some pretty gory gunshots which cause many splatters around the environment. Also in the beginning, we get a great moment where a man gets his head blown in half with a shotgun and it is really cool just to watch that gag on screen. After that, we get more stabbings and cuts, mostly with some blood sprays. The end chase though is absoulutely covered in blood, as we get men being run over and rammed by vehicles, leaving a bloody mess behind.
Now, lets get to some of the negative things about the movie. First off, I cant really say that this movie is original in any way, cause basically it seems that Neil Marshall just threw together a bunch of elements from other movies to creat Doomsday. The plot is also very confusing and bland, because theyre are so many plot holes its hard to follow the film. The script and basic directing also lack here, as the script is to simple for me and the directing is too edited for me to fully enjoy it.
Doomsday is simply stupid fun, full of gore and action, the movie was enjoyable. Though I think it it underrated, it still is not as good as proposed.
