The End Is Nigh.
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Genre(s): Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Runtime: 105 minutes
Rating: 6.1/10 (28,964 votes)
Release Date: 14 March 2008
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Languages: English
Company: Rogue Pictures
Sound: DTS-ES, Dolby Digital EX
MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
Director(s): Neil Marshall
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Producer(s):
Benedict Carver - producer
Marc D. Evans - executive producer
Trevor Macy - executive producer
Peter McAleese - executive producer
Steven Paul - producer
Andrew Rona - executive producer
Writer(s):
Neil Marshall - writer
Cast:
Caryn Peterson - Vagrant Girl
Adeola Ariyo - Nurse
Emma Cleasby - Katherine Sinclair
Christine Tomlinson - Young Eden Sinclair
Vernon Willemse - David / Gimp
Paul Hyett - Hot Dog Victim
Daniel Read - Sergeant #1
Karl Thaning - Pilot
Stephen Hughes - Soldier #1 / Johnson
Jason Cope - Wall Guard
Music: Tyler Bates
Benedict Carver - producer
Marc D. Evans - executive producer
Trevor Macy - executive producer
Peter McAleese - executive producer
Steven Paul - producer
Andrew Rona - executive producer
Writer(s):
Neil Marshall - writer
Cast:
Caryn Peterson - Vagrant Girl
Adeola Ariyo - Nurse
Emma Cleasby - Katherine Sinclair
Christine Tomlinson - Young Eden Sinclair
Vernon Willemse - David / Gimp
Paul Hyett - Hot Dog Victim
Daniel Read - Sergeant #1
Karl Thaning - Pilot
Stephen Hughes - Soldier #1 / Johnson
Jason Cope - Wall Guard
Music: Tyler Bates
Posted on: March 14, 2008
April 6th, 2009
It seems that every review, or many anyway, notes that this movie is asmörgåsbord (or melange for the fey crowd), of other movie themes andimages. No question there. In fact that a writer can combine zombiemovies like Dawn of the Dead, and Road Warrior, Escape from New York,and Excalibur is certainly noteworthy in and of itself. Plus a bunch ofothers, but those have been explained in detail previously.
The movie itself? Pretty bad actually. As an American, I wonder if thisis a European production, I think it is. Everyone has a variation ofBritish accents — certainly nothing wrong with that, the movie is setin Scotland after all. Just seems like a version of a Hollywood movie,with a big budget, but not quite an American sensibility. Not bad, justdifferent.
And certain scenes really do seem taken straight from other films ofthe same genre (I don't think this is a spoiler, but caveat): One sceneis almost entirely a retelling of a scene from Mad Max.
Others have mentioned much of the basic plot, disease ridden Scotland,walled off from the rest of the world, and as the virus seems to beseeping out into the rest of Britain, an elite force is tasked withfinding the cure that may exist in the hellish remnant of exiledScotland thirty odd years later. Kind of interesting, though theaccents, to an American ear, are sometimes hard to follow — areAmerican accents confusing to other English speakers? Not sure, just aquestion.
I do like the soundtrack for the flick, very eclectic, again, mostlyBritish I think: Fine Young Cannibals, Frankie Goes To Hollywood,others I'm sure I have no knowledge of. Still a wonderful "melange" oftunes for the bloodbath.
As bad as many American movies may be, the violence is controlled, Ithink anyway. Here, it's more spurting and blood flow right in yourface. I doubt I am conveying the idea very well, but it seemsdifferent.
And by the way, the movie is really bad. Just doesn't work at all. Nothorrible, but bad. Don't want to go into too much detail as I don'twant to spoil. One thing, as full disclosure: The cable line froze upten minutes from the end, so I really don't know what the pay offreally is, just a frozen picture for ten or fifteen minutes.
But you know what? Maybe that's part of a feature of a movie, thatmakes it worthwhile, I actually cared that it froze. I plan on hittingthe Tivo to get it again, to see those ten minutes. I'm curious how itends.
April 11th, 2009
I'd read some good things about this film….and a few bad, but ithought, what the heck,i would see for myself. Oh how i wished I'ddecided to hit myself repeatedly in the head with a 2lb hammer instead.It would have been much more fun.
This is a truly appalling film. I think it started when an elitefighting team was nearly completely destroyed by a bunch of punkrejects with only big sticks. Then watching the transvestite Glaswegiandancers on stage.
At this point i decided i had to turn it off and go watch some paintdry, or else i was going to kick my TV to bits………and i can'tafford another one.
I'm begging you….only watch this film if you have been bad and youwant to punish yourself severely.
April 11th, 2009
Because that's what it is really. Think about it: It's got London init, barbaric Scottish tribes, Orwell's 1984, punks, knights, a Bentley,Lord of the rings, steam engines, Bob Hoskins, … All of them Britishmilestones!
Aside from all discussions whether or not this is just a blatant copyof Mad Max (down to individual shots) or an homage, Doomsday fails forone single reason.
It doesn't know what it wants to be.
It starts off as a very serious post-apocalyptic virus-out-of-controlfilm. It then becomes a Mad Max copy, turns into a medieval Lord of theRings epic, loops back to Mad Max kitsch and rounds everything up, backin Orwell's 1984's mob-against-the-government style, with one morehasty (and completely ridiculous) jump into Mad Max-land.
Seeing Mad Max battle freaks too incredible to be real was greatbecause it was a closed and very consistent universe. Doomsday on theother hand mixes this pseudo-reality with the real world as we know ittoday and the two (three if you count the medieval section) just don'tmatch! I mean, they escape knights on horseback with a Bentley only tobe pursued by crazy punks in eighties throwback vehicles?
Defend it all you want, for me it is an epic failure.
(The photography though is fantastic!)
April 15th, 2009
When they make these kind of B-movies i'm sure that critics's fingersgo crazy on writing numerous negative and bad reviews about these kindof movies, and so they did on 'Doomsday', i didn't mind criticism muchat all, i went to see this film and got what i expected but not in anentirely same way i expected, movie has some seriously twisted, wickedstuff and a lot of gore, some people will find this disturbing, butthose who are used to movies like this will just think it's funny anddumb. I tried to remember all the movies of which some identical scenesare inserted into 'Doomsday' and i made a pretty big list: 'Rambo 2','Gladiator', 'Mad Max 2', '28 Days/Weeks Later', 'Transporter' and soon… So some people might call this film "original", but as you cansee all of its parts are taken from other movies and mixed up into onesingle movie, which just had to make 'Doomsday' entertaining, and it isentertaining in a disturbing, dumb and cheesy way.
7/10
April 26th, 2009
i really do believe that in some small way that this film is an homageto the MaD mAX series and possibly escape from n.y. i liked this moviefor the most part, it had a lot of good fighting scenes in it,, i didlike the idea of the guy in the knight outfit, with the sword onhorseback that was pretty cool to watch,, and the line that our femalelead gives upon seeing his character in the woods,, now there'ssomething you don't see everyday,, now to me that was pure classiccinema right there folks. Malcolm Macdowell was in here but he reallydidn't impress me much, so was Bob Hoskins,, but again not really thatimpressive. overall it's a good update i think, kinda like mad max andescape from new york revisited, with a different twist.
May 26th, 2009
Wow! This was such a bad movie, I immediately had to see what thecollective IMDb members had to say.
I'm sorry but with an average rating of 6/10, I am no longer certain Ican trust any IMDb rating that is less than an 8/10. I am giving it a 4ONLY because Rhona Mitra (and a few others) are pretty good actors, theaction scenes are intense (albeit ridiculous), and the set designs arepretty good. It gets a ZERO for the absolutely ridiculous story line,the many plot holes, and the over-empathizes on the removal of aparticular body part.
Some science (or sort of) to remember: – Fuel (or Petro) will not workafter 30 years (much less after 1 year); – It is highly unlikely that:
- a modern society will break down as depicted in this movie,especially not in a short time;
- international aid will not come; – Who is running the power stations?How do they have power?
If you have nothing better to do, and you enjoy mindless action, thisis your movie!
June 5th, 2009
Take note of 1:26:03. That is the exact moment in the movie that thewriter/director leaned over and blew one into the face of the audience.Then he cashed his check while laughing madly.
I thought Dog Soldiers was pretty good, so I saw this movie. At firstthere was a lazy line or two which made me worried, but then I settledin to see how it played out. Then the convoy of heavily-armed soldierswas attacked. Don't worry, this isn't a spoiler, as you've already seenthat scene about a thousand times.
I started skipping through the next half-hour or so, which is onlynotable as being written entirely using Word's cut-and-paste function.
Then we hit the 1:26:03 mark. I won't tell you what happens in themovie, but I will tell you what happens in thirty years: batteries rundown. Oil gets thicker. Plastics get brittle. Rubber stiffens. Tires goflat. Roads get overgrown. Bridges crumble. Metal parts bind.
Go ahead and see this movie for the eye-candy. But when you get to1:26:03, don't say I didn't warn you.
August 26th, 2010
your all a bunch of nerdy pussies who cant handle that much gore. you probably pass out from paper cuts you bunch of faggots. this is the best movie ever made