Doomsday

March 18, 2008

Rated: R Runtime: 105 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

DOOMSDAY is exactly what you’d expect from the previews. It starts out 28 DAYS LATER/28 WEEKS LATER, and ends up ROAD WARRIOR. Director Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT, DOG SOLDIERS) apparently likes a lot of the same movies from the 1980s that I do, and he throws in everything but the kitchen sink, making a strange mashup of all three MAD MAX movies, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, and even some bits from ALIENS and EXCALIBUR thrown in. In 2008 a killer virus hits Scotland, and England makes a modern-day Hadrian’s Wall. By 2033 things have been awfully quiet behind that wall.

doomsday.jpgThere’s a new outbreak of the plague in London, and the Powers That Be have reason to believe there’s a cure in Scotland. So they send in Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), who’s part Mad Maxine, part Snake Plissken’s hot sister, and all woman.

And she’s got the best prosthetic since Rose McGowan’s machinegun-leg in PLANET TERROR.

It turns out there are survivors, and they’ve gone part Thunderdome punk-cannibals, part Renaissance Festival.

It’s no great movie, but it’s got some pretty good action sequences, culminating in a big road chase/battle ala ROAD WARRIOR.

And the movie works a bit in GRINDHOUSE country, but less self-conscious.

Posted by Mack Guffin | Filed Under 3 Stars, Action, Alexander Siddig, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, SciFi, Theatrical 

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3 Responses to “Doomsday”

  1. Mack Guffin on March 18th, 2008 8:24 am

    and here’s a trailer for DOOMSDAY on YouTube.

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