Doomsday (Unrated Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Neil Marshall
Actors: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Caryn Peterson, Adeola Ariyo
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 7634
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 62102024
UPC: 025195015899
EAN: 0025195015899
ASIN: B00195FUDC
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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Loud, violent, and proudly derivative, the post-apocalyptic action-thriller Doomsday is the latest from UK cult director Neil Marshall, who impressed horror fans with his previous efforts, Dog Soldiers and The Descent. Both pictures established Marshall as a director with a knack for reinventing well-worn genre pictures, but here, he seems more interested in stitching together favorite scenes and elements from established horror and science-fiction films. Escape from New York is the main source for Doomsday, though there are plenty of nods to The Road Warrior and its multitude of Italian-made carbon copies, as well as the zombie/plague subgenre; the lovely but impassive Rhona Mitra is the Snake Plissken-esque loner sent by police (represented by Bob Hoskins) to infiltrate Scotland, which has descended into anarchy following a viral outbreak. The disease has surfaced in London (now a walled city), and Mitra is dispatched to find a scientist who may possess a cure. Marshall's vision of Scotland in ruins brings together the punk/modern primitive costume design of George Miller's Mad Max trilogy with some eclectic homegrown elements (knights on horseback defending a gang leader's castle), and while these touches are novel, the picture as a whole should ring overly familiar to any viewer who's spent time in the exploitation trenches during the past 25 years. Younger and less discerning audience members will undoubtedly enjoy the plentiful violence and gore, as well as the unbridled performances of the supporting cast, especially stuntwoman/actress Lee-Ann Liebenberg as the heavily tattooed Viper. --Paul Gaita
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Description
From the director of The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through the beating heart of hell! To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades. Loaded with ferocious fights and high-octane chases, Doomsday grabs you right from the start, and doesn't let go till its explosive end!
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 Nothing new February 9, 2010
Edward C. Jones III
This movie is nothing more than repackaging of used ideas. Matter of fact there is one sceane that is almost directly out of Mad Max, the road warrior. Out of the choice between Mad Max and this, I'd say go Mad Max.
 delivers 10 out of 10 high octane January 12, 2010
A. Hendrix (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is one of the most outrageous movies i have ever seen and i have to say its a work of art. theres a plague and these "mutants" are immune to it and become cannibals and troops have to cross out of their military lines and get overrun by these things and it has high octane, the movie is totally sick and twisted in a good way which makes it entertaining and disturbing at the same time.
HOWEVER the action cannot be beat, and theres a GREAT shootout and the soldiers literally run out of bullets and these things come from everywhere.
Doomsday December 17, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Doomsday was a very fast paced action ride. It kept you right on the edge of your seat for most of the movie until the end. I thought that it had many great gore scenes. Very entertaining.
Great Flick! December 16, 2009
Jenna Brown
I came across this movie and it is great. So I bought it. If you this futuristic/Sci-Fi you will enjoy.
 A dirty gitty violent sci-fi movie October 9, 2009
Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
4 of 5 stars for this dirty gritty violent sci-fi movie. So a virus strikes forcing the world to enclose the entire country to prevent spread to the rest of the world. Ultimately a modern day great wall of China is built to secure the quarantine. It is assumed the whole population dies from the virus. Wrong! Many survive (hummm, natural immunity). After many years of stability, the virus spreads to England where the authorites decide they need to capture one of those immune people to create a cure. So, a para-military task force goes beyond the wall. They first go to a large city where they encounter a large collection of people who have gone "primative native" and attack the force. During their escape, they get linked to a different set of people who have gone "knights and castles".
This movie is very dirty and gritty. The most graphic violence that I've seen since some of those movies in the 70's. Plenty of blood, guts, bullets, body parts and dead people. Good action, good special effects, interesting plot. Worth watching, but, be warned, it is graphic!
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