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  • Actors: Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Rhona Mitra
  • Directors: Neil Marshall
  • Format: PAL
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Sep 2008
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001CF06VU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,396 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 favourite 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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Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Rhona Mitra Director: Neil Marshall

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and a Great Movie!, 25 Aug 2008
By Francisco Neves "plot180" (Portugal) - See all my reviews
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After watching Neil Marshall's previous movies, I surely wanted to see this one. Well, it's great. It's fun, violent and it doesn't impose itself as the great movie it is. It's an old-school movie, 80's style and i believe it refreshes the action-packed movies that are not working very well nowadays. Neil's directing is quite superb, sober and precise as the editing. There are no matrix-style camera moves or too much cgi...it was made like 20 years ago. The story and screenplay are simple, but the mixing of that simplicity with the thematic styles work amazingly. You have sci-fi mixed with post-punk and medieval, all cooked into a wonderful movie.
The lead actress fits perfectly into the "aeon-flux" role. And in a car chase/fight we can listen to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes!
I just loved it, and if you are a 80's sci-fi/ Mad Max and I Am Legend fan...you will love this. Great job, Neil Marshall!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Bloody good fun from a modern B-movie master, 28 Jul 2008
By mr-benn (England) - See all my reviews
As a British male swiftly approaching 30, I know I'm not alone in getting a bit nostalgic now and then. Particularly when it comes to the movies. In an age where more and more action and horror films are being dished up to us neutered and sanitised - PG-13 'Terminator' and 'Die Hard' films, for God's sake! - I find myself more and more taking comfort in the full-on blood and guts fuelled classics of yesteryear. Ranking high among those are the films of John Carpenter, and George Miller's 'Mad Max' trilogy (or the first two at least.) And I'm certain I'm not the only one who had long been wishing that someone would come along and create a new movie in that 80's B-movie style.

Well, wish no longer. Neil Marshall has answered those prayers with 'Doomsday!'

And by gum, he's had a lot of mud flung at him for it. And the mudflingers really need to chill. Yes, the premise basically is 'Escape From New York' in Scotland, right down to the brooding synth score and the Atari-style graphics used to illustrate the walled-in zone. Even the same John Carpenter font is used for the opening credits! But it's not as if Marshall expects us not to notice this. At heart, `Doomsday' is doing the exact same thing that `Grindhouse' intended to do: evoke the spirit of a past age in cinema. And I dare say Marshall has done so far more successfully than Rodgriguez and Tarantino managed to. For as loaded as `Doomsday' is with knowing film geek references, it never gets all `nudge-nudge wink-wink' about it. There's humour, for sure, but never does it lapse into parody, not even when the music of the Fine Young Cannibals and Frankie Goes To Hollywood make an appearance.

Marshall made a decent first impression with the lightweight but likeable `Dog Soldiers,' and cemented himself as director of real power and vision with the awesome, truly scary `The Descent.' Here, while continuing his fascination with titles beginning in `D' (?!), he shows that he's far from a one-trick pony, staging numerous massive action sequences that squeeze in an impressive amount of bang-for-buck (the budget being I believe in the region of $30 million; his biggest to date, but small change by modern Hollywood standards). The script may be a bit patchy, sporting some dodgy dialogue and poor plotting, and some of the performances are a little lacking - in particular, sad to say, those from old pros Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell. It's left to leading lady Rhona Mitra to catch the ball, and to my surprise she does so admirably. Step aside Alice and Lara - Eden Sinclair is the best action heroine we've had in years, and it's all down to Ms Mitra (though Adrian Lester provides solid support, and Marshall mainstay Craig Conway makes for a great psychotic nemesis). Far from being another embarrassing case of pretty girl trying to act tough - Denise Richards, anyone? - there's no doubt from her first moment on screen that Eden is not someone to be messed with, and when she kicks ass, you believe it.

But ass doesn't just get kicked in `Doomsday.' Oh no. It gets bludgeoned. It gets perforated. After all, why just cleanly stab someone when you can instead bloodily dismember and decapitate them? There's a big part of why this movie so much fun, and so reminiscent of the glory days of 80's action and horror - there's not a dry death in sight. And thankfully, little if any of it is that lame CG blood we're all growing sick of the sight of these days. Add to that a spot of great old school car chase action, and even a soupcon of swordplay, and you've got yourself just over an hour and half of blistering entertainment. Yes, of course it's a bit silly, and very, very, very derivative. But it's so much fun. It might not change anyone's life, but I really struggle to see how anyone couldn't at least have a good time. Naysayers be damned. Neil Marshall is here to stay. Bravo.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Doomsday: Dog Eat Dog, 27 Jun 2009
By Revelation Magazine (fourthhorsemanpress.com) - See all my reviews
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
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