Doomsday (2008)
The film tells the story of an elite fighting unit who must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades as they try to prevent it from ushering in a new dark age.
1965, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
1969, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
29 September 1971, UK
9 July 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
4 June 1964, London, England, UK
3 April 1979, Brussels, Belgium
12 September 1973, Hartlepool, England, UK
1975, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
26 October 1942, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
April 04, 2011
In terms of sheer excitement, it's the best movie of 2008.
March 19, 2008
[Director] Marshall cribs whole sections from other movies (Aliens and The Road Warrior, most blatantly) so baldly that you have to wonder how he'd like it if someone ripped off The Descent this egregiously.
March 17, 2008
Much as one might admire the British health care system as presented in the documentary Sicko, even Michael Moore would have to admit they have a hard time over there coping with apocalyptic viruses.
March 29, 2010
As it slogs through one hectic yet mundane set pieces after another, the film slowly drowns in its own pool of clichés.
July 01, 2013
...a Whitman's sampler of bizarre story ideas and visual gimmicks, congealing around a premise that is so straightforward that it affords them no groundwork for stability or realization.
November 24, 2011
Marshall's adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon.
March 18, 2008
I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it.
August 29, 2012
I somehow ended up admiring "Doomsday" for being the most unapologetically ridiculously, preposterous action movie I've ever seen.
August 02, 2008
Doomsday might seem novel - if you've never seen "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," "Escape from New York" or any other post-apocalyptic flick before.
March 17, 2008
If you can accept this farrago of nonsense, and enjoy simulated beheadings and lopped-off hands and massive spurts and splashes of blood, this may be the movie for you.
August 06, 2008
One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.
March 18, 2008
Most fantasy-action films blow their budgets in the first half-hour, and limp home with their makeup smeared. Doomsday is unusually patient, smartly saving most of its fireworks for the later innings.
