Doomsday [Blu-ray] | ![Doomsday [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61KjMtvpbAL._SL500_.jpg)
| Actors: Bob Hoskins, Malcolm Mcdowell, Sean Pertwee, Rick Warden, Rhona Mitra
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  109 reviews
Sales Rank: 32373
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 62104869
UPC: 025195040426
EAN: 0025195040426
ASIN: B00195FUDW
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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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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 Doomsday: Dog Eat Dog June 27, 2009
Revelation Magazine (fourthhorsemanpress.com)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A dystopian near-future meets a rebirth of the feudal system in Neil Marshall's post-apocalyptic vision, in which an elite team of military operatives accompany medical experts into the no-go zone that is Scotland in 2035 to find a cure for a virus that is decimating the population.
The central conceit of the film--that government would choose to seal off Scotland and rebuild Hadrian's Wall as a reaction to the virus--is cute and hokey to begin with, and this perhaps gives some indication as to the tonal and stylistic decisions taken with the project. Unapologetically derivative, the Mad Max elements and a deliberate attempt to set the modern solider against the medieval knight are contrived and only serve to deprive the film of any real sense of gravitas or purpose, and the decision to use South Africa in place of Scotland for much of the filming may have made financial sense but it seems a shame the grandeur of the Scottish landscape itself was not on display here. The dialogue is for the most part dreadful and the dominance of alternative sub-cultures is as implausible as their anarchic and cannibalistic portrayal is risible. Malcolm McDowell is far better than the kind of role he is given here, even if it is not an atypical one for this stage in his career, and the choice of music is at times ill-fitting and only serves to date the film back to its stylistic roots.
There are, however, some things to like here. The decaying cities of Glasgow and London look convincing, and the action sequences--if resorting to superfluous gore to the point of inciting boredom--are well executed. Rhona Mitra makes for a fine and convincing heroine and the likes of Adrian Lester and Alexander Siddig also do the best they can with the material they have been given, but above all Doomsday feels like it was a much more intelligent and worthier piece of work that took a wrong turn very early in the creative process.
--Adam Chamberlain
Revelation Magazine
2.5 stars out of 4 May 6, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Doomsday is fun to watch and Rhona Mitre proves more than capable of being a butt-kicking leading lady, but after a while Marshall's constant homage to/rip offs of better films (including but not limited to 28 Days Later, Aliens, The Road Warrior, and Escape from New York) start getting tiresome and I found myself wishing I was actually watching those movies instead of a second rate clone of them.
No Time to Think April 22, 2009
Martin Asiner (Jersey City, NJ)
In DOOMSDAY, director Neil Marshal has put together a film that has a pulsating energy from start to finish. Those who see this film are also the same ones who are likely to appreciate the liberal homages to a variety of cult cinema epics ranging from the wastelands of the Australian outback of MAD MAX to the virus based collapse of civilization of 28 DAYS. There is a surprising number of big names like Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, and Alexander Siddig (from STAR TREK). Yet, the one who has the lead and is in nearly every scene is Rhona Metra, a hard boiled soldier type cast in the Ripley (ALIEN) mold and Milla Jovovich mold (RESIDENT EVIL). Metra is Major Eden, who as a child survived the breakdown of civilization as the Reaper Virus struck Scotland with such lethality that the Prime Minister decided to quarrantine the entire northern British Isles by building a 30 foot high wall along the lines of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. There are the few obligatory comments on the morality of the wall, but the entire focus of the film was for director Marshall to cram in as many scenes of over the top gore, violence, and cannibalism as he could squeeze into its running time. And this he does with a gusto that does not allow for the audience to note the various flaws and flubs. The most obvious flaw is that the central government in London had kept a sharp eye on the quarrantined section via electronic snooping devices but did not detect any sign of a resurgent civilization. Malcolm McDowell has spent the last twenty years playing psychotic baddies as he does with his sneering Dr. Cain, who may have the cure for the virus. Bob Hoskins shows a softer, gentler side than what he usually portrays as he acts as Major Eden's surrogate father figure. But we are not in the audience to observe any nuanced acting by either of these two. We wish to see heads lopped off, human bodies roasted and devoured, astounding car chases that are inevitably lethal, and very nearly any bloody scene from a cornacopia of genre action films. And DOOMSDAY delivers on all these counts, and for that it delivers as promised.
 Reasonably realistic portrayal March 25, 2009
D. Ham Sr. (San Angelo, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a fairly believable enactment of things in the future seems to me. Actors were true to the
characters represented. As bad as the world may come to be, a good chance things will eventually
be the way this film lays it out for humanity and the lack of it. The lead actress was quite attractive and
her physical agility lent a very view worthy and believable edge to this movie. I will watch it again.
Most of this type genre film seems "Mad Max" over and over however this one was much classier and
Bos Hoskins is a great actor in all his films and a very diverse person. I recommend this Doomsday
movie over the Christian Oriented film of the same name.
Rhona Mitra! March 16, 2009
Shiloh Kremer
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Doomsday is a fast paced movie that never becomes boring.
An added bonus is the leading role for the very talented actress Rhona Mitra.
She has been on Boston Legal and Nip Tuck.
Skinwalkers (as Rachel Talbot) is another role that she performes very well.
In Doomsday, her character, Major Eden Sinclair, is chosen to retrieve a possible cure for a virus that has wiped out a large part of the population in Scotland.
Eden Sinclair has a cybernetic eye which has replaced her lost eye during her childhood.
Great special effects, an impressive supporting cast, and a strong stage presence by Mitra make this a five star movie.
Rhona Mitra has projects due for release in 2009 which include:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans-Sonja
The Boy in the Box (2009) as Barbara
The Truth About Men (2009) as Katrien
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