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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 19% Rotten Page   1   "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  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 19% Rotten Page   1