DOOMSDAY (UNRATED WIDESCREEN EDITION) (2008) Doomsday (Unrated Widescreen Edition) (2008) Actors: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Caryn Peterson, Adeola Ariyo Directors: Neil Marshall Producers: Marc D. Watch Doomsday (Unrated) instantly on VUDU. To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades. 809 Doomsday subtitles in 39 languages English (128) Dutch (55) Romanian (55) Spanish (51) Turkish (38) Polish (37). Rate Doomsday UNRATED DVDRip XviD-LMG Sub as bad SubtitleSource.org x315. Doomsday.2008.1CD.-SUB. The plot of Doomsday, insofar as it makes sense, is fairly simple. After the devastating Reaper Virus sweeps through the UK, the government decides to wall off Scotland and trap it there. This results in a safe. From the director of The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through a post apocalyptic hell! Doomsday Unrated is loaded with more explosive action not shown in theaters. From the director of The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through a post apocalyptic hell! Doomsday Unrated is loaded with more explosive action not shown in theaters! Doomsday did not perform well at the box office, and critics gave the film mixed reviews. In 2008, an unknown killer virus. The unrated version was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 29 July 2008 in the United States. Doomsday Unrated Blu- ray Review - IGN. By Chris Carle Virtually everyone has someone in their life that they can describe as ? Doomsday is like that person: likeable, handsome, but not all put together. You love it, but you don't rightly know why. It swings wildly between sci- fi, horror, and fantasy, but maintains action throughout. In fact, this thread is the thing that keeps the movie from dissipating into disaster; but just barely. In the end it's a pastiche of a ton of movies you have already seen: Road Warrior, 2. Days Later, Resident Evil, even Lord of the Rings. Add an advertisement for Bentley into the mix and you have a frustrating but interesting pile of movie. Doomsday shakes free from the bounds of a confining setting—in Dog Soldiers and in The Descent it was a cave—but that is not necessarily a good thing. Although it still deals with themes of separation and confinement, the setting itself is large (all of Scotland) and it's obvious that Marshall is really happy no longer having to color within the lines. After the devastating Reaper Virus sweeps through the UK, the government decides to wall off Scotland and trap it there. This results in a safe London, but a wasteland of disease on the Scotland side of the wall. After a couple of decades of silence, it is assumed that the people left to die are all gone. But that's not the case. When the virus rears its ugly head again, a small team of commandos (can't be a large team, can it?) is sent across the border to search for Marcus Kane (Malcolm Mc. Dowell), who is said to have found a cure. Sinclair is all snarl and one- liners, and Mitra plays her cool, like Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil, but with heavier artillery. Mitra is fun to watch, and could become a great female action heroine if she's allowed to broaden her scope. Sinclair's unit is a shallow group of ragtag soldiers who are barely introduced and very poorly characterized. When they are dispatched in short order, you feel nothing for them. But that doesn't matter; there is much more charisma on the other team. Looking like a cross between the cast from Mad Max and the starting lineup of Rancid, this band of churls is so icky they attack everyone without asking questions, kill for pleasure, and ultimately eat their victims. They are cartoonishly evil and sport the Mohawks, nipple piercings and leathers to prove it. Plus, they seem to like sex and music. At the head of the circus is Sol, who screams and prances through the film like a hyena on PCP. Played by Craig Conroy, this devilish lad and his histrionics are borderline annoying but ultimately mesmerizing. Hair is dyed, scenery is chewed. From there, it's a high- speed Road Warrior style chase to the end of the movie filled with leaps in logic and physics. There is plenty of stuff here that doesn't work: Eden has a removable, remote control eye that adds nothing to the plot; the Marauders treat a cannibal feast like it's the MTV Music Awards; and Bob Hoskins is utterly wasted as the police commander and confidant of Major Sinclair. The plot is flimsy, the characters are broad, and the genre changes minute- by- minute. But the sheer audacity and scope of the film helps: it all seems so much more epic than it is. The action is also beautifully shot. Marshall has a clear sense of what makes a compelling sequence, so at times it barely matters if it all makes sense. The man certainly does know how to splash gore on a screen, and the more morbid fans will delight in the fact that not even cute bunnies are safe from his splatter gun. It is a diversion, a wild entertainment; and if you're the kind of person who can surrender without asking too many questions, it might be just the thing for a night at home. Score: 6 out of 1.
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