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Movie Overview
Cast
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Karl Urban
Rosamund Pike
Director
Andrzej Bartkowiak
MPAA Rating
R - strong violence/gore and language
Doom (2005)
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OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten
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"Comes up short in terms of delivering a consistent, explosive, hard-hitting and scary interpretation of the video game."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A. J. Hakari
"Who knew that a life-and-death struggle in the dark with psychotic hybrids could end up being so bland?"
Eye for Film
Anton Bitel
B
"High art and smart sci-fi it is not, but you have to hand it to a film that plays its cards right, lays everything out on the table, and goes for broke."
FromTheBalcony
Bill Clark
D
"It comes as no surprise that the director blunders the material badly, if you can even call it material to begin with."
FilmJerk.com
Brian Orndorf
D+
"Roger Ebert put it best, "Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play.""
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"The Rock's version of the gung-ho zombie marine is nearly as gnarly as Dolph Lundgren's (in Universal Soldier), and definitely more personable"
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
B+
"DOOM Fans, rejoice! The movie might not be intellectually stimulating, but it’s huge fun."
EDGE Boston
David Foucher
1.5/4
"...a thoroughly mediocre
Aliens
ripoff."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
2/4
"Just an
Alien
knockoff, albeit a serviceable one."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
D
"Hollywood has rarely produced a series of films as consistent as those based on video games: A dozen of them now, and not one has been any good."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
1/4
"Too bad we didn’t have Bill Paxton’s Hudson to relentlessly shout out 'Game over, man. Game over!'"
eFilmCritic.com
Erik Childress
C+
"It has its strengths, but it's clunky, awkward, and repetitive every step of the way."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
1.5/4
"As a grand big screen video game brought to exaggerated life,
Doom
is about as flexibly entertaining as a needlessly squeaky joystick...an over-extended misfire."
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
F
"Just call it 'Aliens for Dummies'--dark, murky, loud, gory and incredibly dull."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
1/4
"It's unfathomable how many times Hollywood has struck out in attempts to convert popular video/computer games into movies. This is the kind of misfire that reinforces negative stereotypes."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
6/10
"Isn't half bad because you sense the filmmakers approached a limited concept with the right amount of fun and dedication in mind."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
6/10
"...it surprised me by actually being a lot better than it deserved to be."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
3/5
"Will never be any better than average, but we were always promised unapologetic, violent, action-oriented fun and so if you go in with that in mind you'd have to have a stone-cold heart not to have a blast."
FilmFocus
Joe Utichi
3/5
"During the obligatory explanation scene in
Doom,
I was quickly disinterested. I kept thinking, 'Okay, enough talk. Let’s start blowing things up.'"
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
1.5/4
"[A] gory, shameless
ALIENS
(1986) rip-off."
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
2/4
"Shows, once again, that most [video games]... are best left in their original form, allowing people to get their visceral thrills in the way they're accustomed -- with a control pad."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
F
"Gamers would be better off playing
Doom
or sitting in front of a blank screen than wasting time with this incredibly dull
Aliens
rip-off."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
"[K]nows it’s a videogame movie and knows it’s an
Aliens
ripoff and still can’t muster up enough winkingness or snark to at least be clever about it..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
1/4
"You’re supposed to watch a movie and play a videogame; they want us to watch a videogame (which is not fun) and feel like we’re playing a movie (which is not possible)."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
C-
"Game over."
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
2/4
"The predictably heavy metal-scored film's primary directive is to recreate the mindless mayhem of its joystick-controlled roots."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
2/5
"if you’re going to make a video game adaptation this boring, why not just call it
Myst
and be done with it?"
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
2/5
"So busy trying to look steely and hip that it forgets to engage us on any other level."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
2/5
"There's no rule that videogame movies have to be idiotic. And there's no rule that action-horror flicks need be dumb."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
2/5
"Forget dumb, stupid, loud, and endlessly derivative. I can live with those. But
boring
? I just didn't see that one coming."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
C+
"
Doom
may be by the numbers,...but those numbers add up to the most cleverly engineered video-game movie made to date."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
3/5
"for a movie based on a video game, it brings what it promises"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
"A nifty piece of low-ambition entertainment that knows exactly what it is, and delivers fairly well on its promises."
Cinefantastique
Steve Biodrowski
3/10
"A blasting,blood-splattered shoot-'em-up, it minimally utilizes the game's first-person, role-playing perspective - and there's no interactivity."
Modamag.com
Susan Granger
0.5/4
"I've already seen enough of everything that
Doom
has to offer."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
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Felix Vasquez Jr.
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