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Title: Doomsday (2008)
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Caryn Peterson | ... | Vagrant Girl |
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Adeola Ariyo | ... | Nurse |
| Emma Cleasby | ... | Katherine Sinclair | |
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Christine Tomlinson | ... | Young Eden Sinclair |
| Vernon Willemse | ... | David / Gimp | |
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Paul Hyett | ... | Hot Dog Victim |
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Daniel Read | ... | Sergeant #1 |
| Karl Thaning | ... | Pilot | |
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Stephen Hughes | ... | Soldier #1 / Johnson |
| Jason Cope | ... | Wall Guard | |
| Ryan Kruger | ... | Soldier | |
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Nathan Wheatley | ... | Patient 'X' |
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Cecil Carter | ... | DDS Assault Trooper |
| Jeremy Crutchley | ... | Richter | |
| Rhona Mitra | ... | Eden Sinclair | |
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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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.