One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.
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08/06/08
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Doomsday (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 30
Rotten:33
Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus: Doomsday is a pale imitation of previous futuristic thrillers, minus the cohesive narrative and charismatic leads.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: Mar 14, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $10,955,425
Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Marshall earned the respect of horror devotees with his first two features, DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, refreshing and scary twists on the werewolf and expedition-gone-wrong genres. Where those works... [More]
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Sean Pertwee, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring
Director: Neil Marshall
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Reviews for Doomsday
Doomsday might seem novel - if you've never seen "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," "Escape from New York" or any other post-apocalyptic flick before.
08/02/08
A bit like a medley of greatest hits performed by a hot, young talent who brings a new vocal inflection to the tired, old standards.
07/10/08
Doomsday possède définitivement toutes les caractéristiques d'un film culte en devenir, même si celles-ci nous laissent toujours en tête une curieuse impression de déjà vu.
07/08/08
A tribute to the early 1980s anarchy actioners The Road Warrior and Escape From New York, Neil Marshall's Doomsday also blends elements from 28 Days Later for a fun and ultra-violent action-sci-fi-kinda-horror film.
06/18/08
The movie doesn't disguise the fact that this is a loving homage to early 80's science fiction cult classics.
06/05/08
It's a mishmash of homages to writer/director Neil Marshall's favorite B movies. That doesn't make it bad at all, though; it ends up being quite entertaining.
06/04/08
Brimming with exploitation antics, grindhouse sensibilities and, heh heh, exploding bunnies, Doomsday conjures a future thrown back to the dead-end styles and amoral excesses of the eighties - and no future could be bleaker than that.
05/09/08
When the film's unspooling and we're watching Rhona Mitra drive a sports car through an exploding bus, we find ourselves in movie geek heaven.
04/01/08
After they blow a bunny to smithereens (aiming straight through a plot hole), I knew all bets were off.
03/29/08
The only thing that saves Doomsday from complete disgrace is that it knows it's trash.
03/28/08
Likely to be the year's most entertaining film withheld from critics, Neil Marshall's latest finds him pigging out at a B-movie buffet of bangers and mash. His alchemy of anarchy in the U.K. is exhilarating and playfully perverse.
03/24/08
A tongue in cheek action bonanza that I cheered on with fists in the air...
03/23/08
About twenty minutes into it I decided to pretend it was a long-lost mid-'80s film Marshall had dusted off and put his name on.
03/23/08
A series of loosely linked action scenes, Doomsday plays out more like a video game than a movie.
03/21/08
Delivers the exploitation goods and then some, but it's so utterly derivative it represents a depressing step backward for Marshall...
03/21/08
If Doomsday was designed to be trash cinema, the filmmakers achieved their goal and then some.
03/21/08
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