Nonureva Really Surprised!
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Reticent_Reviewer I walking past an electronics shop back in the 90s, and seeing Doom playing on loop on that machine. It was the sole reason that I moved from an Amiga to a PC, however good the Amiga games machine was in its day.Like many reviewers here, I found the movie okay for sure, and The Rock can carry a movie despite its shortcomings. It had decent amount of one-liners, action, and the first person perspective section was well done.However, I'm still waiting for someone to produce a movie based on the game which is faithful to the content of the game itself.
The Movie Diorama Come on, who honestly thought this was a good idea? Of all the video games to adapt with decent storylines, Universal chose a first-person horror shooter. *sigh*...oh dear. Loosely based off the video game with the same name, a squad of 'Rapid Response Tactical Soldiers' are called to a research station on Mars after a distress call. What they find is a legion of nightmarish creatures that lurk behind every corner. Nearly everything about this film is terrible. I do ire the scene that imitates the POV of the protagonist as he goes round shredding gruesome monsters with bullets and a chainsaw. Replicating the game's famous FPS aesthetics, the Mars station was a fitting environment. Aside from those small positives...yikes! This was just bad. The whole purpose of the Doom franchise was that demonic enemies from Hell were attacking. In this atrocity, the story is altered so that these creatures were synthetically created from an additional chromosome. So yes, the enemies are actually human. Why abolish the original story? What could you possibly gain from that? If the film is bad enough for the average moviegoer, then your only target audience is the fan base. Change the story, and you've lost the fans as well! To say the acting was below average is too kind. It's terrible. Clearly The Rock was not always box office gold, as he was horrendous in this. No emotion, stiff as cardboard and constantly hoisting his giant gun up at an attempt at being a badass. Karl Urban was generic. Rosamund Pike deserves better than this. Some of the visual effects were good and I applaud the use of practical effects, particularly the costumes for the creatures. The script was tedious, the characters are constantly shouting what they are about to do or what they are thinking. The lighting was dimmer than a 12th Century gothic Transylvanian castle, could hardly see a thing. Quick cuts, bad editing...I'm done. No more. Doom should simply be titled "Doom and Gloom". I can think of worst films, but this is abysmal. No question.
James Purcell I saw this back in 2005, and I'm just copy and pasting my review from my old .I wasn't expecting any sort of plot from this movie. I knew exactly what I was getting into and going to get. I was right in that I didn't get a sensible plot, and I got marines blasting at baddies. However I also got humorously bad acting, poor dialogue, unconvincing sets, weapons that look like toys, stupid decisions by the characters (ie. when the rock refuses to call for reinforcements - not to mention the various "you'll be OK alone right?" moments), clichés up the ass as mentioned by another poster on this bored (ie. the dark brooding character who's inner torment keeps him alive). This movie was just bad, even for what it was. It has two cool parts in my opinion. The opening scene, and the part where the monster gets stuck in the nano door. That's all I . Go rent Aliens.
Tominatorxx First of all, I kinda like this film for what it is: an action/horror movie. But I have no idea why the DOOM name is attached to it. As a big fan of the games I can safely say there is not much in this film that is faithful to its source material. Now there are similarities between this film and the DOOM games (as you would expect) but there are also many things that are completely different from the games.So the film is set on Mars like one part of the games is (the other being Hell which I will come back to later in this review) in a facility where all hell broke loose (pun intended). A special team of highly trained soldiers is sent there to investigate and to terminate the threat.Now this is already the first big difference. DOOM games are well known for having a nameless character starring as the protagonist. We all refer to him as our beloved Doomguy. Now do I think the director made a mistake by not following the game in that aspect? Not really to be honest. It would be almost impossible to make a film in which the protagonist doesn't say a word. You could ask yourself: "Then why would you make a film based on a game like DOOM?". And to be honest I don't know why you would.But I have to say that the idea of soldiers sent in by UAC is possibly the best they could come up with. At least that way you can have conversations in your film.Now back to the story. Without spoiling everything. The reason why these monstrosities are causing havoc has something to do with chromosome science. They want to create superhumans by adding 1 chromosome to people. Turns out the test subjects (criminals) become monsters after they get injected with the 24th chromosome. The reason? I'm not going to spoil that. But honestly it is basically pure nonsense.The people who read the previous paragraph and played the DOOM games will immediately notice something... Where are the demons from hell? Well they aren't in the film, in fact they never go to hell either. I know... a DOOM film without demons from hell... is not a real DOOM film in my opinion.What is in the film though is the BFG (though for some reason it shoots blue energy instead of green plasma).If you read this review up to this part, you might as well be reading a review about a film adaptation of Resident Evil. Monsters and zombies created by questionable science projects, a team of trained operatives which is send to investigate. Only differences are: we are in a science facility on Mars instead of a creepy mansion. Characters can even get infected by the monsters in the movie. In the games the monsters from hell just kill you. That's it. Onto the good things about this film then. Most of the characters are enjoyable to watch, the acting is good, the atmosphere is very well done (very DOOM 3 like), the special effects are pretty good for a 2005 film and the soundtrack is very good as well. And I should of course also mention the FPS section of the film, which is really well done. It's quite impressive actually, if you consider that the film came out in 2005. Nowadays it's easy with GOPRO cameras but back then it must have been really hard to pull off.All in all I have to say that I enjoyed the film. Mostly because of its atmosphere and not because it's a good DOOM film. In fact if I would rate it purely on the basis of it being faithful to DOOM, I would probably give it a 3 out of 10.But if you watch this film and can look at it as an original idea that isn't based on a certain game, then I think you might like it for what it is. Me personally, I'm kind of torn between giving it a 5 or a 6 out of 10. It's an okay film. I'll probably give it a 6 just because that FPS section was really well done and the atmosphere was definitely good as well.Don't expect anything great from this film. It's pure popcorn entertainment. And it's pretty good popcorn entertainment.
