Memorable, crazy movie

A Major Disappointment

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines. Doom is one of the few Dwayne Johnson films that i never got the pleasure to see the time that they were released or at least some years later now i just finished the film and i gotta say it was pretty "Ok", i loved The Rock playing a crazy Marine and Karl Urban's First Person Shooter Scene although a bit weird it was quite fun in general. The acting is pretty good and the monsters look realistic enough, the dialogue is cheesy and most of the time the film is pretty dark something along the lines of AVPR. It's not a perfect film it drags at parts and it's kinda boring at others but the acting is really good and i loved the fact that the Rock got to play the bad guy for once in his career and his transformation was pretty damn cool and honestly this movie isn't that bad it's not a masterpiece but it isn't that bad if you don't take it seriously i think you're gonna have fun with it. (6.6/10)

The human mind is limited. It is limited in the way it has invented the gods. It is limited in the way it imagines the near future. Ten years later the humans have game consoles far more advanced than the viewer can see in the first three minutes. But yea, the fans will talk about the story. There does not seem to be much of a story. Only action pasted over the few silly lines of text delivered with a mindless game. Well, there is the violence. That was the easy part anyway. Otherwise, a rip off Predator. Or maybe Aliens.Now comes the good part, the computer scientist kind of imagination. On Mars people have a genetic studies lab. It is below ground, obviously. It is on Mars because it was probably the closest thing to New York City in terms of rent or something. And the lab has infirmary, of course, since land is so cheap on Mars. And below everything you have subway-like sewers. And those are filled with sh*t water of course. Enough so the monsters could hide beneath the surface. And the facility has huge metal doors. Yet the access to the sewer is made through man holes with some sort of light manhole covers. It makes perfect sense. Only there is not much light to compensate for the special effects shortcomings.Otherwise, normal stuff. The doctor comes to retrieve the data. But does a dissection. The kind that you drop the flashlight in. And while the examination gloves are short, the doc has no problem putting the whole arm inside an unknown humanoid monster.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

This movie must be rated at least nine out of ten since the cast is well- suited for an action film, the plot is coherent and bears resemblance to the original game and acting is , in contrast to what other critics say, is actually awesome. The psychological and physical struggle between The Rock and Urban is well told throughout the movie, thus the climax is their final fight. Overall, a good plot and characters make a good sci-fi action adventure movie. This film is definitely worth watching twice.

This film pulls off the neat trick of ripping off like 4 different Aliens movies at once. It's a feat of screen writing. It's good fun for a long time, nonetheless. The casting is rather good, I've never liked Urban as much in anything else as I did in this. Rosamund Pike is great as always. And great credit for casting The Rock in a bad guy role. Dwayne Johnson is much better-suited to be playing menacing heavies like this than his usual stuff. He started out as a heel in wrestling for a good reason. Anyway it's well-made, by the numbers kind of stuff. It includes a 'revelation' of something the audience had figured out literally a half hour prior. Bad writing there. But it doesn't connect the twins' parents' death to the current plot - which is good writing and shows restraint. The monsters were OK. Nothing special. The rules of the hunt weren't really established - movie didn't quite play fair. Monsters would seemingly reappear out of nowhere when needed, when realistically, 3 or 4 giant monsters rampaging around would make a lot of noise and be hard to miss. There's a rather brilliant bit late. Urban has just 'evolved' via the injection. The film suddenly wakes up, as he wakes up, and suddenly we're seeing a hyper-kinetic film version of a first-person shooter game. Stylistically this works in two ways at once, showing how he sees now with heightened awareness and intelligence and ability, while also doing the cool homage to the game.Unfortunately, following this wonderful scene, we get a horrible endless drawn out terrible tedious not interesting at all knock down drag out between Urban and the Rock, both enhanced. This damn scene just refuses to end. There's literally no tension or interest whatsoever, the thing isn't filmed interestingly, or choreographed interestingly - we know who's going to win, and Pike's character has already been safely seen away, meaning there's nothing at stake in the scene and no risk to anybody. It's just bad. It's a slog. A huge comedown after the amazing rush of the first-person shooter sequence.But all in all, not a bad movie. As a fan of such stuff (monster movies, sci-fi action films, etc) I enjoyed it. No regrets.