Review of Doom

Doom (2005)
3/10
Or Resident Evil The Remake
7 January 2007
Well i have played various versions of the game and none of them seem to resemble anything that appears in this movie. Well apart from a scene shot in the first person. In fact this appears to be a clone of the first Resident Evil movie. Except nowhere near as good. The movie is mostly in the dark, so why it needed a $70 million budget is beyond me. The Rock is fine as the SGT. And Rosamund Pike is an appealing scientist. But Karl Urban lacks any kind of charisma, to be effective in the main role. Maybe thats due to The Rock being just about the most charismatic action star around.

However the movie is full of zombies disposed of in the usual way. So the movie is full of clichés and has no identity of it's own. Maybe it would be better to make original films, instead of from computer games. Doom was never anything more than a shoot em up in hell. Hell does not appear, which is very strange. Even the creatures are poor. This lacklustre movie gets a 3 out of 10 A Total Waste of Money and Time
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