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• A thrill ride! posted on 30 August 2009

  This movie is just a ton of fun. Action, suspense, laughs, gore, etcetera. It's all there. Minimal CGI use, lots of real physical special effects (blood, explosions, stunts). George Lucas could learn a thing or two (CGI should support, but not "be" the movie.. at least not yet). Craig Conway does a marvelous job as the savage "Sol". Bob Hoskins commands authenticity. Rhona Mitra and the rest of the assault team are fabulous. A few minutes could be shaved off the movie to keep the flow going better at a couple spots, but everything else is great. I've seen it twice and I'll probably see it again, whilst I walked out of "The Bank Job" from complete boredom.

• Why?! posted on 28 August 2009

  This Movie would be the worst one I've seen all year except for the fact that it was hilarious. Was it written by a child? People have referenced the warriors, Mad Max, 28 days later and many more to describe this film but the truth is that its nothing like these films.There is no room for story, continuity, good acting or apparently physics in this film. I felt drained as I left the Cinema. This is what happens when movie buffs start making movies, they don't write anything new the just compile all their knowledge of film quotes and trivia into one two hour long farce. Homage isn't the word, I'd use insult.The film begins with some desperately violent Cordoning off of Scotland and begins the spiral off into a world of bad acting, Nonsensical plot lines and medieval knights! The plot, if you can find it amongst this tip of conspicuous homage's poorly conceived (even forced) ideas, is more full of holes than the Tsars. The actors? It seems that Neil Marshall hired everyone of his friends that couldn't get work (and some that could to play small bit parts and cameos). The ending was so bad it made me feel like I'd been punched in the groin!Dogs Soldiers was great, the Descent was good but Doomsday is worse than the Plague its "story" centres around. I really hope that everyone just forgets this movie and it disappears, even Neil Marshall himself because if he makes more movies like this he is in real danger of becoming the British Uwe Boll. . . Okay, that was harsh but honestly, this film is that bad!!! Oh, and did I mention the Acting? It wasn't really that good.

• A Fanboy too far..... posted on 26 August 2009

  As a child of the video age, I grew up watching Mad Max 2, Escape From New York and Aliens. I looked for the films with cool covers and great sounding titles and ran home to find some fantastic titles. But I also found other amazing looking video covers, films that promised more of the action seen in the above classics. They also seemed to have been 'influenced', a great deal, by these film makers and all had Italian directors! The 1970's to the early 1990's saw a great deal of 'influenced' remakes, copies, unofficial sequels to some of the now great Sci-Fi films. The Italians ran wild with the whole post-apocalyptic, zombie, bleak future genre. My friends and I even made our own short 8mm movies that were 'influenced' by John Carpenter, George Miller, James Cameron, George A. Romero etc.. but were we kids, fanboys, didn't know better, just wondering what it would be like to make the perfect Sci-FI movie.So I'm sure Neil Marshall was also a child like me who also had a dream of one day creating the ultimate movie, with all the best bits we loved. But all we get to sit through is a 100mins of just complete rip offs of these amazing titles. Now I'm a fan of Neil Marshall's films and he is great to listen too, but he needs to hang his head in shame. You could, in a day, make this movie by editing all the bits he's taken from other movies. The prologue and graphics from the start of Escape From NY, the failed entry of the troops and their vehicles from Aliens, the capture of the hero (twice) who escapes, fights and kills their best warrior, which again is from Escape From NY, it just goes on and on like this. But how do you get Mad Max 2 into the picture, well how cares what works, even if its just stupid, just put it in any way! So we get a big car chase/battle that is so like Mad Max 2 George Miller could real have grounds ask for royalties. And the finally, well it just keeps on taking!I know that if I had been given a ton of money when I was 15, I would have made the same stupid mistakes, thinking, hay I love these movies and so do my friends, so they'll love it if I do it again and do all the best bits, but were not kids and we can see what you have done Mr Marshall, your 'influenced' movie is nothing but a lazy attempt to recreate these terrific movies. At best you may push some teenagers to go watch the originals, but you have done so much harm you have gained nothing. And just for the record, if a car just hits metal it doesn't mean it has to blow up or if a large van hits a motorcycle it will fly into the air and explode like it just ran into a bomb!What gets me is that next year they were/are planning to remake Escape from New York, too late. Lets hope this film has done one thing good and puts an end to it, that and it has no star and no director.This gets 3 stars for replacing Donald Pleasence with the brilliant Malcolm McDowell and Tom Atkins with Bob Hoskins.

• Neil Marshall has a plan posted on 20 August 2009

  I have been reading the other posts on this page, and I am disappointed that no one else has any concept of analysis or respect for a director's style. Neil Marshall's storytelling blueprint is simple, effective, and uncompromising. If you want a chameleon for a director, go for Bruckheimer.Hell, half the people complaining about this movie can't even spell 'soldiers' (the latter half of his first theatrical film's title).He had NO CGI in Doomsday. It still is the the most expensive gore movie ever made, and probably will be until he makes another one. As with Stanley Kubrick (another bashed yet revered director, known for his commitment to his own style), he has stood out as a director. When you sit down for a Marshall movie, you may not know the premise, but you sure as hell know what is about to go down. The nuances make the case, as every artist that was not the first artist in history will attest. I cannot wait for more. Neil Marshall is one of the most gifted directors AND writers around. Mr. Marshall, you stand among the heavyweights, and I salute you for making cinema cool again, just like Rodriguez, Tarantino, Miller, Carpenter, Kubrick, and Lee.Doomsday is my second favorite movie of all time.

• A story about anarchy. posted on 18 August 2009

  I just came back from the theater because I got to watch the special screening of it, and it was a really good movie, if you're into blood, car chases, action, and comedy, you so definitely go and watch Doomsday. Although by the advertisements it didn't seem that good of a movie I do not regret going. The whole story seems like a mix of "I am Legend", "Aeon Flux", and "Smokin' Aces", if you liked either one, I'm pretty sure you're going to like this movie a lot. And don't be too weary about all the gore in the previews, it's actually also pretty funny, and the comedy is evenly placed through the movie so if you're not really into the anarchy, you'll at least get some laughs out of it.

• Good Concept, Bad Movie posted on 18 August 2009

  The concept was great. A virus that destroys mankind and only the strong survive. Nice nod towards natural selection, but that's all it has going for it. There was tons of gore and blood and action, but none of it made up for the bad acting, the confusion and the "why did I buy a ticket to see this". The theatre actually clapped when it was over and a huge sigh of "thank god" was uttered. In the car chase scene, she's driving a Bentley, it goes faster than go carts and dirt bikes. Yet somehow they catch up and jump into the car, why they rolled down the windows is a mystery. Overall it entertains with the blood and gore, but be prepared for head shaking and realizing you just wasted almost 2 hours of your life that you'll never get back.

• The most dumb ass movie I had have seen in recent days... posted on 18 August 2009

  Whats the purpose/highlight of this movie? Well, Action - No way, the action was not that engaging that can get this movie some credits. Fight scenes does look glossy at times but were far from being called good. The gladiator type fight scene was pathetic at the ends. The car chase simply didn't make any sense, moreover the music in the background at that time was of no relation to the tempo and need of the movie. The tank they prepared to go on broke with bare hands having stones. Well there was only gore and lots of blood in action but no style neither any tensed moments which are back bone for any good action sequences.Then, Suspense/Thriller - No way, there was no thrill rides at all, neither any suspenseful moments. At the end I even don't remember how the good guys of the squad lost their lives during the quest!Then, Sci Fi special effects - I didn't notice any good sci-fi special effects through out the movie. It seems that in the future man cant even make good tanks to penetrate!Then, Drama - Ahh there was entirely no drama over here, at least not any such that is mentionable. Bottomline - This effort goes flatly all in vain in all departments. Do have a pack of cigarettes (if you smoke) with you while watching to get the time passed on. Because popcorns cant last that longer! Those who don't smoke, at least keep your cellphones charged, as to check out old mates while watching the movie to get the time passed. You got to be doing something at least all that time!!!

• Suffers from an identity crisis but entertaining anyway. posted on 14 August 2009

  To summarize, Doomsday is perhaps one of the most eclectic movies I have ever seen. There is some action, some okay acting yet sub par character development with some plot holes in between. Overall it is merely a decent SCI-FI/ACTION thriller.I was a bit disturbed by the lack of foundation of direction shortly after the beginning. Direction was trying to give this an identity and it pretty much struggled throughout. It jumped from different types of scenes and the movie felt like one giant experiment rather than an actual film. Chronologically, it was as if I saw Aliens, The Hills Have Eyes, Mad Max, Braveheart, Gladiator, and then Mad Max again all in 90 minutes of filming.This movie takes place in apocalyptic Scotland. Where you see high tech gear on soldiers and doctors, then you see dingy dark prisons and cannibalism, then you see a scene of Rhona Mitra being chased by motorcyclists with mo hawks, then you see the Scottish high raised hills, then you see the Castle in the Dark Ages with everyone dressed up like the Middle Ages, then you see a battle arena. Then you see another car chase like Mad Max. Talk about confusion...In way it makes Doomsday different, I guess this movie provides a little something for everyone's tastes. The car chase near the end was well produced though a little too comical, and the villains throughout were nice and chaotic looking. The bad guy and his pet gimp just cracked me up.Rhona Mitra, the main character was kind of bland version of Alice in Resident Evil or that Underworld chick. But she did her best to play the part of a character in a somewhat real world situation. That cold face persona almost works every time for the protagonist, but she didn't come across to me as a very likable heroine.Other than the villain, the supporting cast that should matter in Doomsday, don't have any real development.One thing this movie didn't lack, was the risk taking assortment of directing styles, and some spontaneous entertainment. Despite the identity crisis this movie emanates, I recommend this movie probably as a case study on what works in an action movie.

• Britain infected again? posted on 14 August 2009

  OK the plot is nothing you haven't seen before in 28 Days Later or 28 Weeks Later. A killer virus infects & kills lots in Scotland (incidently, the film jumps the shark in th opening 3 minutes with the soldier opening fire on automatic - just not how British Troops are trained at all), martial law is declared. Scotland gets sealed off & all seems OK until some infected are found in London.The mayor of London (Alexander Siddig of Deep Space 9 fame) calls his chief of police (Bob Hoskins) to send a team into Glasgow to look for survivors & a possible cure so they won't have flood some of London to kill these newly infected. And this team will be lead by? Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra, Hollow Man & former Lara Croft model).Eden certainly looks & dresses quite a lot like Jill Valentine from the 2nd Resident Evil movie & I'm sure that's not by accident either. I can see why people have likened this to Escape from New York (the wall around a place, the lead character carrying a GPS device to enable tracking, the general population kept ignorant of the mission, a society of anarchy inside the wall).With the scenes of the troop getting ready for the mission in the hanger it was very much like bits on Aliens prior to planet fall. Even though we're clearly told the people inside the wall have become cannibals that fact is completely destroyed when the APC knocks down & kills a cow and has to drive through a field of at least several hundred cows so the films own logic has become highly suspect that the writer can't remember something they told the audience only a few minutes earlier.The search mission inside the hospital almost mirrored the search inside Hadleys Hope from Aliens. Although I must admit the people attacking them in the hospital did have a touch of Mad Max styling about them (very lazy being unable to come up with something new themselves I felt!).There's even a nice nod back to 80's TV series Max Headroom at 1 point. I'm a bit annoyed that the windows of 1 APC are broken so easily, it shows poor writing in needing to hurry the plot forwards. Both seemingly impregnable APC's are destroyed WAY too easily. It's an incredibly lazy writer who set up such seemingly tough vehicles then throws them away to such simple attacks. The fact that the idea is also lifted wholesale from Aliens shows you exactly how little the writer actually did.The musical scenes in the hall (the entire scene was basically BarterTown stolen wholesale from Mad Max 3) were another very good indicator the writer didn't do much when creating what little script they actually did write themselves. 3 songs to fill almost 10 minutes of screen time (where nothing happens, nothing is explained & the plot is not enhanced in any way, shape or form) just to avoid having to write anything original it seemed to me.We're told the guy leading the insane gang in Glasgow is the son of Kane (Malcolm McDowell) the Scientist that Eden has been sent to find. And the girl she rescued as she escaped is his daughter.The whole "holed up in a castle" is very surreal (pretty much like Army Of Darkness so yet another stolen idea), almost like it was an idea picked at random & then just done because nothing else had come to mind. Meanwhile back in London the infected were over running the city & The Prime Minister got infected blood on him & killed himself.As for the outcome of the "Gladiator" scene? It was nothing if not 100% predictable. Likewise with the evil Minister in charge & Hoskins told to stay behind while they go to pick up Eden & the cure there was bound to be some sort of twist or betrayal about to happen near the end.The road action sequence at the end is pretty much bits of Mad Max & Mad Max 2 but after that you at least know the leader of the Glasgow gang is most definitely dead.Eden not going back with the survivors & being found by Hoskins is a bit of a weird scene. I assume her throwing the head back at the gang is her way of telling them she's running Glasgow now (having given Hoskins the video evidence to bring down the evil Minister) but it's a very weak ending & far too open but not a good enough film to warrant a sequel.

• Three stars - for Rhona Mitra's face, for buttocks and for armpits :) posted on 14 August 2009

  It depends on sense of humour, but in my opinion you need to have VERY SERIOUS reasons to put medieval Robin-Hood-like curly guys together with high-tech Alien-like military activities, Tomb Rider-like feminine sexy professional commando, 21th century Mad-Max-like punk guys on motorcycles, zombies and some political fiction in one movie. You have to be at least Quentin Tarantino to do this trick right. And Neil Marshall isn't even Robert Rodriguez :) So - in other words - this movie lacks "the trick". It has ridiculously complicated concept (which is complicated and ridiculous enough to make us believe that there are some mentioned above VERY SERIOUS reasons behind it). It has Rhona Mitra's pretty face and very well-shaped buttocks in cast (which helps us manage watching in bad moments). And it has nice budget (which would remain even untouched if dialogs were just little better).... So where is the magic? Let's say - Just not everyone can tell THAT kind of jokes. Neil Marshall's "Descent" was terrific, but this is just not his league.Movie is: Not funny, not scary, not entertaining. But pretentious, but boring, but over 1,5 hour too long. It could be very nice 5 minute Aerosmith video-clip with few of Rhona Mitra's hottest shots, some guns, some bows, and with one particular luxurious car :) Three stars - one for Rhona's face, one for buttocks, and one for sexy armpits :)

• How Many Films Does It Wanna COPY posted on 08 December 2009

  I could not believe how many films were copied in this film. Lets see shall we. First of all u have the idea of a virus spreading over a city, which is then kept in quarantine, sound like I AM LEGEND/28 DAYS LATER/ RESIDENT EVIL? This whole story has been done to death now.Then we have the whole apocalyptic feel, people with Mohawk's etc (Mad Max). You have the scene which is slightly similar to Gladiator, where the main lass is fighting some Hench dude in armour. There's the whole LOTR references as well.I could go on, but i wont.I really disliked the film, and if another car were to blow up spontaneously i was gonna storm out of the cinema. It simply doesn't happen. And how the car lifted off the ground when smashing through a bus ill never know.I was bored after they escaped. Leading up to that was not bad.Horrible film, dunno why its been given 6.5 rating. Get it lower. And also didn't everyone feel that the main character looked basically like Kate Beckinsale in Underworld? Anyone?

• So Gutted By This posted on 08 October 2009

  terrible terrible movie....im a huge neil marshall fan....the descent i think is just a truly incredible film....and im also a massive dog soldiers fan so i went into this film with extremely high hopes however i don't think I've ever been so let down by a film....it was just bits and pieces of other films poorly coppied and pierced together...i just didn't see the point of either whilst watching it was so distracting to be noticing the films Marshall was taking bits from...noticing all the references to Mad Max and the bits taken from 28 days later....i just think it was generally a poor film....the script was just dull and kinda pointless....it had so many plot holes i lost count....the acting was dreadful....especially malcolm mcdowall who just came over sounding all weird nothing else...just generally a poor poor film....for all those out-there who want to watch a good neil Marshall movie go and watch the descent i promise you will not be disappointed....but avoid this movie at all cost

• One of the best posted on 08 August 2009

  This is one the best movies i've seen in a long time. This movie had everything in it. From both extremes of the spectrum. Sol played by Craig Conway added so much life to this movie, his enthusiasm in his character was off the charts, I don't think anybody could have done a better job. As for the lead actress Rhona Mitra, she did an outstanding job, her performance was incredible. The only thing I wish this movie had more of was Lee-Anne Liebenburg who played Viper, (the crazy looking girl with the tattoos on her face and is in all the trailers) but from what I saw in the way of Viper, she gave a superb performance. DoomsDay had all the right elements to a killer movie, everything about it was done in such a way that it will make your adrenaline pump throughout the entire movie. I walked out of that movie so happy and hyped, I'm happy I went and saw it and you should too.

• Pseudo Science Fiction posted on 08 August 2009

  This would be a great movie if it wasn't full of so much nonsense. I suppose I would consider it to be pseudo-science fiction. I couldn't really enjoy because I was too busy cringing. I did try! I can enjoy some nonsense movies but a level of "that might be possible if I don't think about it" is the minimum I can take but this falls well short of even that.There is also far too many people "trusting in destiny" or attributing bad things to god because "he is trying to get you to do something". Taking someone to the temple when they really need the hospital is a really bad idea kids even if you have a strong gut feeling!It is a real shame as the film actually looks pretty good. It's not massive budget but I don't think that is what makes a good film.

• A little bit of 28 Days Later... with some Mad Max 2. Oh, and throw in a touch of Gladiator! posted on 08 April 2009

  With those three films, and a few more, you end up with Neil Marshall's outrageously entertaining, Grindhouse-esquire action movie, Doomsday. And boy is it a lot of fun...and then some! Sure, the plot is a tad ridiculous and the characters are barely developed, but Marshall makes up for this by providing ultra-gory, intense action sequences and fast pace to boot. The Reaper Virus decimates Scotland in 2008, and this ends up with Scotland being walled off from the world. Skip to 2035, and the virus has reached London, which causes the government to send a squad of specialists, led by Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) into Scotland to retrieve a cure from a crazed doctor, Kane (Malcolm McDowell). However, when they get through The Wall they find the survivors are unwelcoming, and what follows is a battle for survival against cannibalistic madmen.First and foremost, Doomsday is incredibly over the top. How, you may ask? Well, we witness a soldier barbecued and eaten, cows being squashed by tanks, a gladiator battle, many people crushed by cars and plenty of bodily mutilation including impalement and decapitation. Marshall, coming off of the successes of cult werewolf film Dog Soldiers and caving-gone-wrong movie The Descent, knows how to direct (writing...not so much). Unfortunately, I don't think people knew what to expect, so they just assumed it was another Descent. This may be why it was trashed by many critics and was not a huge box-office success. Obviously, the tone is very light-hearted and referential and he succeeds in doing this. Honestly, I got sucked in from the beginning and found myself intrigued and tense the whole way through.Of course, the film is not perfect. As mentioned previously, the story is not great (nor is the dialogue). The acting is passable, I actually think Mitra is a great heroine and a decent actor. Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell provide excellent support but none of the other actors are true standouts. Overall, I would recommend this film to people who want a thrilling and well-made post-apocalyptic action film that is almost a modern day Grindhouse flick.3½/5

• THIS IS AN Awesome MOVIE!!!! posted on 08 February 2009

  well after seeing this movie at the theatre it was absolutely brilliant. the cast, the picture, and especially the plot line it was so riveting i mean before i went to go see this movie i was thinking you know this is your normal day zombie action movie but i was absolutely shocked when i saw this cause it was so different from the normal every day virus zombie movie it was action packed from beginning to end and the plot line was great and the fact that the survivors were cannibals was sweet and when you caught the virus you didn't turn into a zombie you just rotted and didn't turn into a zombie this movie is awesome!!! also here are some of my favorite parts...... i thought it was brilliant when the mans face was blown to bits at the beginning and the part when the leader of the punk rock group had burned the man and started to tear him apart and to start eating him that made my stomach turn an and my favorite scene was when the an infected man with the "reaper" virus goes in the head office hacks a mans head puts it to the door for the eye activated door to open then he hacks another guy and gets a very important man {not saying who} gets infected and has to kill himself..... this movie gets a 9/10 it was BRILLIANT!!!!

• A Real Disappointment..! For the sake of Production Design Only.. posted on 08 February 2009

  Frankly, i expected so many things from this film.. Shortly, it was a real disappointment for me. Neil MARSHALL tired to do something but totally failed.. I always kind of like this sort of after-disaster scenario on the Movie and everything. As a matter of fact, Beginning of film thrilled me, i enjoyed that for a short time.. After THE DESCENT, i thought that MARSHALL would do a fine job next.. Even DOG SOLDIERS was better than among than its kind sincerely.. I saw the director's Cut lately, Nothing is good enough to change this failure.. I wish not to use these awful words about this title but i can't help it longer.. I hope Neil MARSHALL will return with a new brilliant and exciting idea and shocks us.. For now this is my sincere hope from him..

• Mad Mac: Escape from 28 Deep Fried Mars Bars later posted on 08 February 2009

  Mindlessness rules in this super-bonkers piece of nonsense from (most of the) team who brought you brilliantly foolish guns-and-werewolves movie Dog Soldiers. As my title suggests, I think Neil Marshall wrote the film by watching 4 TVs simultaneously playing Mad Max, The Warriors, 28 Days Later and Escape from New York. What I am saying sounds like a criticism but it really isn't. Doomsday is fun. It probably isn't the sum of the films that went into the blender to make it but somehow it manages to make you go with it. This is predictable rubbish of the worst kind and yet you'll find yourself enjoying it. *not really a spoiler*A terrifying plague has broken out in Glasgow and spread to the rest of Scotland. Despite England's avowed refusal to deep fry all food stuffs, the Scots are looking to escape. But no! Evil Scotland-hating England has rebuilt Hadrian's Wall out of cargo containers, and elected to let the Scots die alone rather than become infected themselves.30 years later a child survivor of the plague - Eden Sinclair (the British Milla Jovavitch – Rhona Mitra; stonkingly gorgeous but apparently incapable of acting her way out of a wet paper bag) is all growed up and now face-shoots people as Major in the police. After a suspected outbreak of the plague in London Prime Minister Gaius Baltar, and his gravel-voiced Alastair Campbell-alike – Canaris, tell Rhona to hop it over to bonny Scotland and find a cure for the virus.Much nuttery then ensues involving, but not limited to; exploding rabbits, tanks, squashed cows, synchronised arse-slapping, human-cooking, decapitation, cannibalism, decapitation, steam trains, medieval knights, King Lear, trial by combat, a Bentley GT, a gimp-o-cycle, more decapitation and a not-very-surprising double cross. *end spoiler*Doomsday may be completely derivative hokum but it has an élan, a joie de vivre that is lacking from so many other films (most with vastly bigger budgets). Inventiveness can be an overrated quality, after all a dried rat sandwich is pretty inventive but it doesn't necessarily make it good food. I started watching it thinking "well, I've seen all this before" and I had – but if you let your brain freewheel you'll enjoy it. It hasn't got a message and it doesn't want to make you think. If you watch it looking to nit-pick every small detail of the film so that you can legitimately hate it then, guess what, you wont enjoy it, and that would be a shame – this is a film that wants to be enjoyed.The special effects deserve a mention as it is nice to see big special effects that don't rely solely on CGI. There is some but mostly it's good old makeup, modeling and pyrotechnics. I'd like to see more movies using this approach since done well it is far more convincing.Doomsday isn't: Inventive, Original, Enormously coherent, Full of CGI, lacking a sense of humour.Doomsday is: Enjoyable, Gory, Good fun.Nowadays I only give two ratings on IMDb, 1 or 10 on the principle that I either enjoyed a film or I didn't and trying to rank stuff is impossibly subjective. Despite initial worries Doomsday thoroughly entertained me and earns a 10. If you are willing to let yourself be entertained the film is a lot of fun, if you only watch movies in which people sit around and discuss the meaning of existence (optionally in French) then it's probably not one for you.

• Bloody Terrible posted on 31 July 2009

  Doomsday - A deadly viral epidemic breaks out in present day Scotland, killing a lot of people in the process. 30 years later, it happens in Britain, because viruses are like that. The powers that be decide the antidote is in the now-quarantined Scotland and send in Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) and a bunch of red-shirts to recover it.The acting is mostly crap all around. Bob Hoskins must need money very badly. Rhona Mitra is too bland for words. She's just inhumanly cocky and wooden. There should be laws against this level of inability to act. I just plain didn't care about any of what happens. Nothing in the movie gave me a reason to care, plain and simple.There is so much wrong with this movie I could write a paper on it. It rips off Mad Max, Aliens, 28 Days Later, Braveheart, Underworld, Resident Evil, Spartacus, The Warriors.... If there is a movie on earth that you cherish, this movie has eaten it and digested it and flushed it down the toilet. It could be brushed off as an homage, but homages are usually not supposed to be the meat of a film. There is literally not an original thought in Doomsday's head, except the heroine has a removable eye, which is gross, and pulls it in and out again as a mini camera, which is improbable. Also it's probably the only time you'll ever see gladiator combat, cannibalism, horseback riding and motor racing in the same movie unless someone does "Genghis Khan takes on NASCAR". The aforementioned combination, however awesome it may seem on paper, is g.d. retarded in execution.Next, this movie is violent. It's very violent. I love action films, zombie films, horror films and this was too much. There's no style to it, just unending brutality. For god's sake, at least leave the bunnies and cows alone! It's fitting, if depressing, that Malcolm McDowell should appear in this because I was reminded painfully of the part in A Clockwork Orange where his character Alex is forced to watch unceasing images of appalling violent quality. It's how I felt. I felt occasionally sick. Doomsday is senselessly disgustingly and unceasingly violent. I'm dismayed that director Neil Marshall (of The Descent, which I loved) could have put his name on this with no shame. I'm giving Doomsday an F. Ugh.

• A compilation of blatantly stolen stuff posted on 31 July 2009

  When an amazingly strong virus breaks out in Scotland the only logical thing is done: to limit the loss and keep the virus from spreading any further the country is sealed off from the rest of the world. Its surviving inhabitants are left to die and are quite naturally not entirely happy with that. When years later the same virus reappears, this time in central London, containment is no longer an option and someone is sent into the now barren Scotland to search for a cure.So far so good. The film starts rolling and it's clear from the very start that it doesn't invent anything new - it just rehashes scenes taken from several other films, clinging on to the old motto: "better to steal a good thing than to invent a poor one". This is an acceptable motto if the thief applies some changes to the stolen bits and actually improves them. Quite sadly this film only changes the stolen scenes for the worst.There are some good bits in it, there are some mediocre bits in it, but the bulk of the film is just rather bland that might be enjoyable for people that did not see the films this one has stolen from but that are not really any good for the people that did see these other films.5 out of 10 stolen tapes of celluloid