My 17 year old son is the person who forced me to watch this movie.
I’m gonna buy the kid the new Madden - I haven’t had so much fun watching a film in a long, long time.
Mad Max meets Resident Evil meets** 28 Days** with a sense of humor. The over the top acting was perfect for the tone - some of the special effects sucked, but it seemed as though the director wanted them to suck in certain spots.
I like the lead - “I don’t suppose you have a cigarette.” She’s pretty good as an action star.
The shaky camera in the fight scenes was perfect IMO and the director made beheading fun!
I liked the first two-thirds of the movie. The ending kind of petered out for me. It’s like they ran out of ideas and someone said, “Hey, let’s just start blowing shit up for no reason at all.”
Excellent movie for its genre. Better than what I expected. Though the “cooking” scene was a bit extreme and I could have done without it. But that’s just me.
It took me a while to realize that I had seen the lead in the TV show Boston Legal before. Talk about extreme opposites.
Mad Max + Escape from New York + Resident Evil + Army of Darkness = 2 hours of pure awesome.
I saw this in theaters and was crying by the end from laughing so hard. Every 10 minutes you think “well, there is no way they are going to go more over-the-top than dancing soccer hooligan cannibals”. And then in the next scene, there’s LARPers lead by Malcolm McDowell! It just keeps going up! I didn’t realize this was out on DVD already, I’ll have to pick this up.
Also, I find it telling that if we were to seal off Scottland for twenty years or so they would all become cannibals or live action role players.
I watched this movie with zero expectations, i’d never heard of it or of any of the actors apart from McDowell. It was fucking awesome! I loved every bit of it and i hope they make a sequel.
I picked this up simply because it was directed by Neil Marshall, and I’m a big fan of both Dog Soldiers and The Descent. Even though a couple of reviews compared Doomsday unfavorably to those two, I thought Marshall accomplished what he set out to do - make a loud, over-the-top, pure action-thriller. I liked it on an entirely different plane than his earlier flicks.