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Doomsday (2008) 6.0
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6.0/10 from 57,199 users
Metascore: 51/100
Reviews: 386 user | 249 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race. Director:Neil MarshallWriter:Neil Marshall |
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A lethal virus spreads throughout Scotland, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in London. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into Scotland 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. Written by Nicolettea
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 March 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£311,383 (UK) (9 May 2008)Gross:
£944,521 (UK) (23 May 2008)Company Credits
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Kane: Like so many epidemics before, the loss of so many lives began with a single microscopic organism. It's human nature to seek even the smallest comfort in reason, or logic for events as catastrophic as these. But a virus doesn't choose a time or place. It doesn't hate or even care. It just happens.
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Written by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson (as William Johnson) and Mark O'Toole
Performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Courtesy of ZTT Records
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Despite having many dangerous choreographed stunts, only two went wrong. A motorcycle rider was dragged when he meant to roll safely aside. He was not injured. Another was the man whom Sol punches in the face on the train platform; on a second take of the scene, the stuntman's nose was broken. See more »Goofs
At the point where Eden and the rest drive away with the car through the emergency door, you can see clearly that the car scrapes against both sides of the emergency door as it is closing. However in the next shot, the car has no damage whatsoever. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Kane: Like so many epidemics before, the loss of so many lives began with a single microscopic organism. It's human nature to seek even the smallest comfort in reason, or logic for events as catastrophic as these. But a virus doesn't choose a time or place. It doesn't hate or even care. It just happens.
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Soundtracks
Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)Written by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson (as William Johnson) and Mark O'Toole
Performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Courtesy of ZTT Records
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Like Greg Mclean, director of "Wolf Creek" and another great white hope for the horror genre, Neil Marshall followed a very promising horror flick with a deliberately trashy project. Where Mclean directed his attention to a murderous crocodile, Marshall took a bow to two of his favorite movies, "Escape From New York" and "Mad Max". "Doomsday" is not just influenced by those two movies, it's practically a mash-up with the female heroine from "Underworld" thrown-in. So, the first thing you should forget about when you pop in this movie is originality. Marshall makes no excuses for paying homage to his heroes George Miller and John Carpenter (hell, he even named two characters in this movie after them).
Like "Escape From New York" and "Mad Max", "Doomsday" demands a lot of suspension of disbelief to be enjoyable. However, maybe sci-fi flicks could get away with more stupidity in the 80's or maybe Marshall's movie is just extra dumb. Sometimes it seems like the director wasn't even trying to fill plot holes or avoid laughable action scenes. If you're looking out for mistakes in "Doomsday", you'll find plenty to complain about.
So, no, this isn't the high profile follow up one would have wished for after the dense, claustrophobic "The Descent". On the other hand, "Doomsday" doesn't fail to entertain. It's fast paced and charmingly old fashioned. Who else dares to come up with a post-apocalyptic world in which punks and knights rule the country in this day and age? Marshall's love for the project is somehow transmitted to the viewer and actually gives you a very pleasant feeling.
If you're able and willing to turn off your brain, "Doomsday" can be a very entertaining, old-fashioned action movie. It may not be a masterpiece or even a good movie, but it can definitely be seen as a fun little interlude by a director that must not be written off just yet.