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Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desper... read more read more...ate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neil Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Few could have foreseen the terror that the microorganism known as "Reaper" would unleash upon the unsuspecting population, and when terrified authorities quarantined the entire country in hopes of saving the human race, the streets immediately descended into chaos. Thirty years later, the inhabitants of planet Earth think that they've seen the last of the merciless killer disease, but they couldn't be more wrong. When "Reaper" reappears more powerful than ever in a major city, an elite group of professionals led by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) are forced to travel back into the sealed-off country where the virus first broke out in order to create a cure and save humankind from certain doom. Now, as the rest of the world anxiously awaits word of their ultimate fate, Eden and her brave team are about to find out that there is indeed a hell, and they are about to journey directly into its black, envenomed heart. Also in the cast are Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell, as well as a host of veterans from Marshall's past productions, including Sean Pertwee, MyAnna Buring, Craig Conway, and Nora-Jane Noone. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: Neil Marshall

Release Date: March 14, 2008

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  • jmanard52
    September 3, 2008
    jmanard52
    Halfway thru this movie I realized I was having a lot of fun watching a sci-fi action movie that I thought was going to be horrible. We are talking a lot of 'road warriorish' rip off here but all in all it was a decent time.
  • phubbs1
    February 9, 2012
    phubbs1
    Where to begin with this haha first of, you have a '28 Days/Weeks later' clone with almost the same flippin story line. Killer virus, England is screwed, Scotland used as quaratine zone, survivors discovered, go in and get the cure. Very predictable and with a little 'Escape from... read more New York' throw into the bargain. Now so far its an eerie and quite decent horror/sci-fi flick, but things start to go wrong, first of, Scotland has all been left for dead and everyone has suppose to have been dead for along time (30yrs) from the killer virus, but then all of a sudden, people are found roaming around via sat shots....hmmmmm

    OK, send in the elite team lead by a sexy female (Kate Beckinsale wannabe) ala 'Aliens' to get the cure from these people. Hence the now Aliens rip, a team go in being watched by a team on cam and end up in a admittedly very good shoot out with a never ending supply of nasty Scottish weirdos. The team is killed of one by one till the last few are captured, very exciting but very 'Aliens' haha one question that does stand out though is how on earth all theses hundreds of people managed to live n survive in a community like the film shows without being detected for so long?????? and how come so many are immune to the virus??? it was suppose to be a KILLER.

    Anywho, from then we get a very odd 'Matrix' style 'city of Zion' setup with all the locals raving away to the 'Fine Young Cannibals' (80's gold hehe) and eating the captured soldiers, all in a very 'Mad Max/Rocky Horror' costume setup within a concert or arena. The leader of the Scottish cannibals is a direct 'Mad Max' rip of right down to his hair style. He also seems to have a '28 Days Later' or 'Resident Evil' style tat on his back which is rather similar to the toxic logo they both use...AND he has his very own gimp in rubber, much like Mad Max 2's Vernon Wells character.

    NOW...from there lots happen (won't spoil) but we now end up in another part of Scotland where the locals are living back in Medival times with horses, knights and Malcolm Macdowell leading them. We now end up with 'Gladiator' style fights and gun battles, oh and a Bentley turns up to, lol! still with me?

    From there, in the escape form of the Bentley we end the film with a HUGE TOTAL MASSIVE rip of 'Mad Max 2', quite a gloriously bloody and spot on rip I must say. Its actually a very cool sequence with great cars and fighting but I just cant understand how they got away with it haha its such a copy its untrue. Also, you may wonder how all these crappy cars can keep up with a modern day super Bentley haha it should wipe the floor with the cannibal carriers. After all this the film tends to end on a rather unexplained note, the heroine stays in disease infested Scotland and returns to the cannibal camp to proclaim their leader dead..why?? no sense atall.

    Overall this film is really really good, very tense,exciting, bloody, gorey and has absolutely every element a film could need, they have packed in almost all sci-fi action genres into one film haha bizaare!! but it does work and its a good British film if you overlook the outrageous copying of many many classic movies, worth a look for sure.
  • ythelastman89
    May 28, 2011
    ythelastman89
    It's very easy to write off Doomsday as the daughter of The Road Warrior and Escape from New York, but there's something really unique and cool about this. Neil Marshall's beautiful sense of style and visuals are at the top of their game here, I also forgot how gory and overly vi... read moreolent it is. Most newer movies like this tend to lack the carnage necessary for an audience to truly experience a post-apocalyptic mayhem scenario in which humans are truly savage. Cannibalism, gladiatorial matches, roastings and destruction are a thing of nature in this well put together wasteland. Obviously this movie has the upper hand when it comes to it's lead; Rhona Mitra is essentially the sexy female counterpart to Snake Plissken. Actually she's a much more developed character, which helps considering her relation to the plot. If you're looking for a non-stop action movie that takes all the cool stuff from the 80s and updates it for a new generation, this is your movie. It's hard to not find something to like here because there's such a huge compilation of characters, visuals and style.
  • ironclad1609
    May 10, 2011
    ironclad1609
    Call me crazy but the idea of a "Escape from new York" and "Mad Max" mix set in the Scottish highlands sounds fantastic. And the premise of isolated and virus infected Scotland starts out rather promising. The film has very little ideas that aren't based on other movies, in the b... read moreeginning it's the tank cars from "Aliens", later the films mentioned above. That's fairly entertaining but sadly gets dumber every minute. It's just one of those films where you can always tell what's about to happen to the next minor character who's not needed anymore. The cinematography is rather decent and the soundtrack and editing always suggest there is excitement, when you really couldn't care less. The final Mad Max car chase is decent enough and shows how much fun this could have been with a little more brains and a little less predictability. Sadly, this is just a huge collection of stereotypes that takes itself way too seriously.
  • CloudStrife84
    March 15, 2011
    CloudStrife84
    Far from extraordinary, but not bad if you look to its entertainment value. I feel like I've seen a hundred films of the kind, yet somehow I keep returning for more. Oh well, as long as they fill my need for action, I suppose it's always worth my time. Not great, not awful, but s... read moreomewhere in the middle on the quality scale.
  • RossCollinsUK
    March 5, 2011
    RossCollinsUK
    Weird, mixed up movie about a post-bio-apocalyptic Scotland.
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    February 25, 2011
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    A glorious ode to old school post-apocalyptic films and practical gore effects, DOOMSDAY is an entertaining film that is just too overstuffed with scattershot ideas and concepts to fully work. Neil Marshall has made a film with a serious identity crisis... It tries being way too ... read moremany things at once and suffers because of this.

    An entertaining film, but deeply flawed. Neil Marshall's weakest effort to date, but still worth checking out for genre fans.
  • SirPant
    February 16, 2011
    SirPant
    I really liked the idea of Doomsday, it's not particularly original but I thought having Scotland as a segregated viral zone was quite interesting (That isn't an anti-Scottish comment BTW, my second name is LAWRIE after all!). It was fun for the most part too, a bit silly in plac... read morees but overall entertaining. The thing that annoyed me about it though was the tribal aspect. How many post-apocalyptic cyber-punks tribes have we seen now, I know it is part love letter to films such as The Warriors (anyone else spot the Baseball Fury?) but it comes off as poor imitation rather than tribute. The medieval tribe thing was handled particularly badly in my opinion, making it not such a great film in the end - which is a huge shame as the story had so much potential! Rhona Mitra makes the leap from my bedroom wall during my collage days to getting her first leading role rather well. She should have been Lara Croft eh!
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    December 31, 2010
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    Entertaining and full of some good action but to tell the truth it wasn't the best futuristic post-apocaliptic I've ever seen. Still, good movie.

    In an apocalyptic vision of the future, authorities brutally quarantine Scotland as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strike... read mores. The literal walling-off works for three decades - until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in London. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), 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. Now, 27 years after the epidemic, groups of survivors are marauding through the streets of Glasgow and the virus has surfaced outside the wall. The British P.M., John Hatcher (Alexander Siddig), and his ruthless chief advisor, Michael Canaris (David O'Hara), have decided to send a covert team into Scotland to search for a cure. On the recommendation of Chief of Police Bill Nelson (Bob Hoskins), Eden is a no-nonsense cop who was evacuated from Scotland as a child. She is told to seek out a scientist named Kane (Malcolm McDowell), who is the most likely survivor to possess the cure. Once within the containment zone, however, she finds that such a task will not be easily accomplished. There are two barbaric factions at war - one led by Kane and the other by his son, Sol (Craig Conway) - and both want Sinclair and her compatriots dead.
  • paulkoh110
    December 27, 2010
    paulkoh110
    I really didnt like this movie. The action was short and not that enjoyable, the acting was awful, and the story was a joke. The only thing good was its massive diversity in filming areas, but apart from that this movie was CRAP

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Critic Reviews

Gregory Kirschling
March 19, 2008
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

[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 egreg... Full Review

Jim Ridley
March 18, 2008
Jim Ridley, Village Voice

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. Full Review

David Hiltbrand
March 18, 2008
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer

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. Full Review

Philip Marchand
March 17, 2008
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star

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. Full Review

Jan Stuart
March 17, 2008
Jan Stuart, Newsday

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. Full Review

Matt Zoller Seitz
March 16, 2008
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up. Homage without inn... Full Review

Wesley Morris
March 16, 2008
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

Marshall reveals himself to be a terrific showman of chaos and comic savagery. This is Baz Luhrmann's Mad Max. Full Review

James Berardinelli
March 14, 2008
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Doomsday typifies the kind of movie that gets dumped into theaters during the late winter -- a regurgitated storyline, no big stars, and no real prospects at the box office. Full Review

Dennis Harvey
March 14, 2008
Dennis Harvey, Variety

Those with a taste for revved-up, splattery fantasy thrills won't be complaining. Full Review

Roger Moore
March 14, 2008
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

Imagine the first serious competition to the Deutsche dummkopf Uwe Boll as "worst director" working today, thanks to this mad and maddening mash-up genre picture. Full Review

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