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Posted By: caseynight88 at 11:14am, September 22, 2009
Fantastic this ain't. I adored the first person sequence. The rest, bleh, not so much.
Posted By: Bostic101 at 7:19pm, September 13, 2009
Dwayne Johnson really picked a bad decision here. I enjoyed The Run Down & Walking Tall but I didn't agree with this film one bit. The actors were Horrible to say te least and CGI was just as bad
As with every video game to movie adaptation, Doom fails in most ways. For one, they get a load of terrible actors, with hardly no exprience to act out as the "toughest" marines ever. The Rock is a great example. From the terrible creature CGI and make up, to the rather horrible plot, Doom fails, point blank. Although, I liked the "first person view" section of the movie. That's what gains it the 3 rating!
Although more stupid and uncalled for than necessary, the action and the innovative FPS-sequence as well as a nicely overplayed The Rock are yet considered decent "fast food"-entertainment.
As with the majority of movies based on games Doom is visually captured, offering solid and strong action sequences, real and gory special effects as well as nice camera work; the FPS-sequence by the ending is not only the film's hallmark but innovative, nicely done and obviously somewhat appreciative by fans and FPS-players. However, the alteration of plot replacing "hell" with "genetics" is totally unnecessary and unwise, as is the silly and suspense killing "Quake II"-scores during the battle sequences.
"As with the majority of movies based on games"-part 2 Doom obviously has no script nor characters to deliver; a few short scenes revolving a couple of characters at a time attempt to deliver characters, but it ends up useless. The cast works fine having a nicely working overplayed The Rock and a solid Karl Urban in the leading roles. A well performed Rosamund Pike and a funny-nasty Richard Brake, however, are brought to the "highlights"-category, creating a little nerve out of their roles.
Doom brings a few solid elements and decent entertainment visually, but plot and script remain decidedly sloppy and unwise.
Insulting the fans of this game (including me) is a disgrace. Please Please if another Doom movie is made (probably not now) make sure that somebody locks the director in a dark room with just a computer and a huge screen and get him playing Doom3 with the volume racked up to very loud, then he'll know what scary is!!! and hopefully translate that to screen. Lets hope a french horror director picks up the tab
I can remember being super hyped to see this movie, untill i heard about the god-awful "Rock" being the lead. I than knew right away what kind of film i'd be viewing. A shit movie.
The filmmakers seemed to have no knowledge or respect for the source material. Whoever green-lit this script needs a swift kick to the groin.
Posted By: AshWilliams95 at 12:26am, December 30, 2008
The doom movie was an absolute disgrace compared to the video game. If this movie was named something else other than doom I honestly wouldn't have thought it was based on the game. The storyline is nothing like doom and the action that is in this movie is pathetic. Okay the storyline for doom is this: You are a marine on mars and a scientist unlocks the portals to hell, soon the whole mars bars is overrun and everyone is either a zombie or a flesh eating demon spawn. You are the only survivor and you have to battle your way out through the hordes of endless demons, pure fps fun! But on this shitty movie a rescue team is sent into the mars base and there is hardly any demons from the game in this movie at all. The poster is a complete piece of shit, it shows a guy holding a p90 and that gun isn't even in the god damn movie! The special effects were lame and the demons and zombies looked like shit. There was lots of gore in this movie and it looked kind of good. Sarge's transformation at the end was gay and not scary one bit, the whole end fight was boring and stupid. The only gun from the game in this movie was the B.F.G. and what does it stand for in the movie??? Bio force gun!!!! What a piece of shit! Every single doom fan knows that B.F.G. means big fucking gun! Did they even play the game before they made this movie???? The acting was cheesy and not too good for my liking. The gooey teleporter thing sucked ass that wasn't even in the freaking game. I still can't believe how many demons were actually in this movie, hardly any! Lets list them.
Imp: There was a few imps here and there and I didn't see one fireball and they looked completely different then the original version.
Hellknight: I think there was one pitiful scene with the bad ass hell knight, and again it didn't look anything like the original version. It didn't cast any fireballs and the fight that it had with one of the marines...........Made the hellknight seem like a mindless, huge zombie!
Pinky: There was one pinky out of the whole movie! What a fuck up and guess what the pinky was before it got transformed??? Some pitiful half robot half human guy who did absoulutley nothing!
So thats about all the demons you'll see in this stupid movie, and someone please tell me what demon that is on the poster!!!!!! The only enemy you see alot of is those bloody zombies! Doom was infamous for it's grotesque scary looking demons not just another zombie fps! Now onto the fps scene itself. Man is it bad! The gun again isn't from the game at all and all he shoots is zombies and a few imps. The calmness of the character when he is blowing away all this shit that is out to kill him is just totally unrealistic. Doom got your adrenaline pumping and nerves racing as you were constantly watching out for something to jump out. But this guy really dosen't care if he lives or dies, he is just walking around blowing zombies heads off. The bit where he has the chainsaw and kills the pinky with it was gay, they could have done way better use of the chainsaw and had way more gore on that part! How sarge dies is just uncreative and so predictable, and he got killed for a good reason, he was a fucking psychopath before! He shot his own team member in the neck at close range, so much for team work I guess we can chuck that idea out the window! But there shouldn't even be a team it should be one bad ass marine taking em all on, true doom style! Even some of the people in the team are a bit strange, infact the whole team is fucked up! There is one guy who cuts himself every time he makes a mistake. Another guy likes to perv on naked one armed zombies, yes thats right NAKED ONE ARMED ZOMBIES WHILE IN THE ACT OF FEEDING! Yea that sure turns me on, the director must have had some sick thoughts going through his head when he thought up that gem of a scene. Overall this movie was lame and a disgrace to doom fans everywhere and the doom franchise itself! Next time they decide to make a doom movie, let someone direct it who has actually played the damn game!!!!!!!!!!!!! The director even said in an interview that he was a hardcore doom fan as a kid and still is now, yeah well it really shows that in this movie. I mean all true fans of the franchise know that there is like only 3 important demons and a fuckload of zombies to worry about, not the insanely powerful hellknight or the gruesome mancubus. What a stupid ass hole!!!!!!! The game doom 3 was fucking scary as fucking shit but this garbage didn't even keep me entertained for 2 minutes at the most! Doom also had great lighting but the movie's lighting effects were shit as! The ending was shit, no huge awesome epic battle with the cyberdemon just a "hardcore" chainsaw fight with a stupid pinky that is considered to be a "boss"! Overall this movie sucked ass and I hate it to death, I give Doom the movie a shitty 2/10. Although the movie was a huge dissapointment I know that when doom 4 comes out its gunna be kick ass!!
Posted By: Protecious at 3:26pm, September 30, 2008
a failure of a film that lacks integrity with characters and villian, too familiar with other sci fi horror films and nothing to different here that i havent seen before.
"[N]othing in the world could prepare me for the cinematic catastrophe I was about to witness. When a game is turned into a film, one can only expect the story to be changed a little, but surely not to such a degree that the title is the only thing linking the two. Let me give you a little run down on the storyline differences.
Game:- A secret research base on the moon accidentally creates a rift between the moon's surface and the shores of hell, people become possessed, satanic rituals take place, demons run riot and soon the base begins to merge with hell itself, the player (you) is the last surviving member of a team of marines sent to investigate (pretty basic stuff) Movie:- A research facility on Mars try to make a serum to make people into super humans. But it does not work on everyone, some people when infected mutate into large monsters that have detachable tongues which pass the infection onto others. Confused yet? There's more. Using what seems to be floating liquid mercury, The Rock and his team of equally talentless actors travel to mars to investigate a distress call. While there they discover what has happened and are all killed except for The Rock and some white guy who's name I can't remember, both of which become super humans and have to battle it out.
Now that I'm done bitching about the differences between the film and the game, permit me to explain to you the other reasons why this seizure of a film is not worth your time.
The dialogue is, how should i put it?, very structured, by this I mean that when the characters interact with one another, you are very aware that it has been scripted and there is no ad-libbing.
The cinematography is clumsy. The camera angle never quite knows what it wants to do, and the lighting (where there is any) is just irritating.
The filters are not subtle, they use lots of red (probably because it's set on Mars) and a fair bit of everyone's favourite green (because it's "post-Matrix") But the most laughable part has to be the five minute long first person sequence, which looks exactly like "Doom 3" on Xbox, the CGI in this scene is laughable (although possibly deliberate) and it ingeniously shows the big hulking monsters attacking the main character with a chainsaw which he later uses against what can only be described as a "boss" All in all, this film is terrible. Less of a film, more of a Labotomy on celluloid. Spend your £3.75 renting price on something more worthwhile, like paying Lenox Lewis to punch you in the face, it would be more fun I assure you!" --Mr_Pink05
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