A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race. Doomsday is one of those films that have a good concept but it's executed pretty poorly for example the movie doesn't know what it wants to be is it an action film? a survival film? a zombie film? a post apocalyptic film? or a horror film? It mixes so many things together that your head starts hurting after a while you basically go from a bunch of crazy people to knights and infected dudes trying to break inside a building. The acting and the characters are fine but that isn't enough to save the movie. (5/10)

(Originally seen many years ago) Extremely dumb and rather nasty as well, film's like this bring nothing new to cinema, except maybe extra mean spirited violence and themes of cannibalism, but if there are people who find this sort of thing fun, I suppose they will keep making this uninspired, nasty trash. Doomsday is pointless and awful. 0/10

DOOMSDAY is one huge mess of a movie, but in a good way. Neil Marshall, the Scottish director of such low budget but entertaining fare as DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, apparently decided to make a good old-fashioned post apocalypse movie while paying tribute to his favourite movies along the way. Some might call this film a rip off of the popular '80s sci fi films, some might call it a pastiche, while others might call it a homage. For me, DOOMSDAY is original enough to be entertaining throughout, even if the story is all over the place and frequently unbelievable (even by genre stakes) and the epilogue is a damp squib compared to what's come before.For the record, this movie references THE LORD OF THE RINGS (in a strange feudal interlude, the armour is the same as that of the Orcs in Jackson's opus); GLADIATOR (there's a fierce arena battle that doesn't disappoint); ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (you can sense it in the get-in-there-and-do-the-job vibe as well as stuff like the walled-off area and streets brimming with thugs); THE WARRIORS (the punk-inspired bad guys); DISTRICT 13 (the revamped 2000s action vibe, and the film that no doubt convinced Marshall to make this); MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (again, the punk bad guys as well as the climatic road chase) and also 28 DAYS LATER (infected zombies running amok). There are probably plenty of other references I either didn't get or didn't notice at the time.Anyway, the main reason I liked this film was because it's fun, and a whole lot of fun. Genre fans will have a ball. Marshall throws in plenty of crowd-pleasing stuff and the movie never stops moving. There's a ton of action and it's also very gory, with lots of heads being severed, as well as limbs and arterial sprays of god-knows-what. Marshall is a guy who shows a rabbit being machine-gunned for a laugh and who doesn't shy away from showing cannibalism in graphic detail, either. The cast are champions, sharing fun, hard-ass dialogue and it's great to see the likes of Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell giving authority while letting the likes of Rhona Mitra and Adrian Lester have some new-found glory – Mitra and Lester are both fine, by the way. Sean Pertwee pops up yet again for an exceedingly unpleasant demise and there seems to be no end to the budget, with tons of shoot-outs, chases, explosions and more.I'm not really sure why this film gets a lot of flak, because it sets out to be a fun romp and never pretends to be anything else. It's gory, funny, action-packed and well-choreographed; I didn't find a single thing not to like, and that's great. If TAKEN and RAMBO are 2008's best serious action thrillers, then this is the tongue-in-cheek flipside of the coin.

This movie is not good, like seriously not good. But it is fun; really really fun. The director obviously enjoyed making this movie and it shows. To say it takes inspiration from John Carpenter and George Miller's films are an understatement. It never comes close to eclipsing either of them, but it doesn't really try to. It gracefully walks the line between an homage and a straight rip-off. The issues this movie has are pretty obvious. Every character is one dimensional except for the scientist doctor guy ( who really cares what he is) who has all of 5 minutes of screen time. This movie has some god awful CGI, including a bloody eye at the beginning of the movie that looks like a video game wound. Most of the time though, this movie goes for practical effects. It uses real fire. real car crashes. Real squibs when getting shot (for the most part). The villains are in one of two camps. They're either just crazy for the sake of being crazy, or the evil leader type for the sake of being an evil leader. But then again it's pretty obvious this movie was going for a fun film rather than one with any depth whatsoever, and it mainly succeeds. overall, this is probably the only 6.5 film I can recommend to anyone. It isn't good. It isn't citizen Kane. But when it comes to movies made for getting some buddies together or switching to it when it's shown on TV, doomsday is pretty great.