Thursday, January 28, 2010

DVD Review "DOOMSDAY" Score B 86%

Taken with a grain of salt this film is a fun ride. Its a mish mash up of a variety of genres. The film starts out as a Zombie/virus infection of half of Scotland (in the future) where its quarantined off from the rest of the world so the infected can just die out. They don't and years later they discover survivors which means a cure as the virus has now restarted outside the quarantined area. So to get the cure they send in their most bad ass Spec. Ops chick with a glass/computer eyeball (she lost her eye as a child in escape from the virus area). So they send her and a team into the area of survivors to get the cure. So then the movie morphs to a soldiers vs. town of zombies movie, into a bizarre Mad Max mash up then into a castle with gladiators where everyone is dressed up in middle ages clothing then back to the Mad Max men with Fast and Furious car chases and a touch of Blade Runner tossed in along all the fighting. The whole thing although in concept seems comical, is played for keeps and straight up and it actually works. Its a fun ride. With the now normal super chick hero who can kick the asses even the biggest baddest men of the world. Enjoy it for what it is a "B" action flick that is a mash up of a bunch of different genres.

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