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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DOOMSDAY - WS (UNRATED) (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0025195015899
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Rogue Pictures
Manufacturer: Rogue Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rogue Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 1470
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 14, 2008
Editorial Review:
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!
Amazon.com:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Escape From Doomsday!.
I'll make this short, Doomsday takes place in the post apocalyptic future where a reaper virus is sweeping across Great Brittain killing thousands of people. The authorities decide to set up a quarantine zone where the infected can die off at their time. Years later the virus resurfaces to lay waste to the population again, this time the government does the responsible thing and sends Snake Plisken.... oh wait wrong movie, I mean Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) to go behind the wall with an elite team ... Read More
Rating: - GOOD ACTION MOVIE
I THOUGHT THIS MOVIE WAS ACTION PAKED , THRILLING AND ENTERTAINING IN THE STYLE OF MAD MAX MOVIES .
Rating: - Post-apocalyptic fun for the whole the family
Going into DOOMSDAY I wasn't expecting to see anything great, just a fun MAD MAX-style movie and I got just that. I was actually expecting something mediocre with terrible acting and a lot of cheesy acting, but to be honest I thought it was a really good movie for what it was.
DOOMSDAY comes across as a rip off but seriously how far can you go with the whole post-apocalyptic virus scenario? There are obvious influences of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and the MAD MAX films (especially ROAD WARRIOR ... Read More
Rating:  - Can't Believe the Man Who Made "The Descent" Also Made This
What is it with good directors making really bad post-apocalyptic movies? The brilliant Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly let fans down with his 2007 stinker Southland Tales, and now the genius behind The Descent, Neil Marshall, delivers an even worse film than the aforementioned "Southland Tales." Honestly, I can't think of any way the movie could have been worse. Let's break it down.
In short, this movie is the opposite of everything I praised him for in "The Descent." That movie subverted ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting...
Doomsday is certainly one of the more bizarre sci-fi horror flicks I've seen; think a frantic, chaotic mash-up of Mad Max, Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, Road Warriors, Escape from New York, and pretty much any other post-apocalyptic zombie flick you can think of, with a dash of Braveheart and a hint of Underworld thrown in for spice. Add a reasonable, if plot-hole-riddled, storyline, some government conspiracy, lots of fake blood, guns, swords, Molotov cocktails, explosions, and an awesome soundtrack. Mix together ... Read More
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