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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: 19% Rotten
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"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
"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."
TheMovieBoy.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
B
"For my money,
Doom
is the best of the video game adaptations (quite possibly the weakest status label I've ever given a film)."
TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Rick Curnutte
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
3/10
"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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