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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1   "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 Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1