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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal Studios
EAN: 0025195015899
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 62102024
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
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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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!
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
4 of 5 stars for this dirty gritty violent sci-fi movie. So a virus strikes forcing the world to enclose the entire country to prevent spread to the rest of the world. Ultimately a modern day great wall of China is built to secure the quarantine. It is assumed the whole population dies from the virus. Wrong! Many survive (hummm, natural immunity). After many years of stability, the virus spreads to England where the authorites decide they need to capture one of those immune people to create a cure. ... Read More
Rating: -
It's all been seen before, and this movie won't be the one to remember when you're discussing exploitation movies down the pub... but for all that, it does its job efficiently enough and does what it sets out to.
For the most part, what it is setting out to do seems to be to homage other movies. It's set in a future world where an incurable disease called the Reaper virus (cos it's deadly, geddit..?) has led to a Scotland completely sealed off from land, air or sea to allow the population to ... Read More
Rating:  -
Though it includes lots of shoot-outs, gores and chopped-off limbs and heads, Neil Marshall's newest film "Doomsday" comes off rather disappointing. The film is from the director who made two impressive films, "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent." Some say they are overrated, but still Neil Marshall managed to show originality and creativity in his previous works. As far as the budget goes, his latest effort has become much bigger and louder; however, "Doomsday" looks lackluster and, more importantly, derivative. ... Read More
Rating: -
If you can imagine a film that combines Mad Max 2 & 3, Escape from New York and Underworld, that's pretty darn close to Neil Marshall's Doomsday. It's nowhere near the classic status as the Mad Max films or Escape from New York but it's just as entertaining, if not moreso! Doomsday has it all, there hasn't been a post-apocalyptic pie this good since the 80s, Marshall holds nothing back! There's cannibalism, post-nuke punkers and a medieval society lead by cult icon, Malcolm McDowell!
Was Doomsday ... Read More
Rating: -
ONCE UPON A TIME a man was visiting friends who served him breakfast with a boiled egg that was just beginning to spoil. Not wanting to offend anyone, he added extra pepper and ate it all. When his hostess asked how his egg was, he truthfully replied, "Parts of it were excellent."
The same can be said for this film.
As our own civilization comes closer and closer to crumbling in a dozen different ways, dystopian science fiction flourishes both in print and in films. DOOMSDAY is one of ... Read More
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