Doom (2005)

Redundant and unnecessary.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

I remember walking past an electronics shop back in the 90s, and seeing Doom playing on loop on that machine. It was the sole reason that I moved from an Amiga to a PC, however good the Amiga games machine was in its day.Like many reviewers here, I found the movie okay for sure, and The Rock can carry a movie despite its shortcomings. It had decent amount of one-liners, action, and the first person perspective section was well done.However, I'm still waiting for someone to produce a movie based on the game which is faithful to the content of the game itself.

The last 15 minutes or so of this movie where the camera turns to first-person and Karl Urban and The Rock randomly start fighting is right about where this movie goes downhill for me. I mean I still don't understand why The Rock's character all of a sudden wants to kill John Grimm (Karl Urban) before he's even turned into a monster, or that the previous guy to get bit on his neck was near-death before eventually dying and the Rock appears perfectly fine. Nonetheless, the rest of the movie for me was quite entertaining. The tension that builds as you anticipate the next attack by the monsters, and the enjoyment me and my brother had putting bets on who would die next only made this experience better. Overall, if you can try to look past the absurdity of the last 15 minutes and you like a good ole' fashioned pick 'em off movie like I do then give it a shot. Also, I recommend watching it with someone and betting which character dies next and where. Trust me it's fun.

Over the years this movie is holding up better and better to other movies from its generation. The Rock is really cool in one of his first lead roles and Carl Urban is good in almost every movie he appears. Only a few downthings to this movie and thats the somewhat thin plot and the really bad "first person scène". Overall give this movie a chance even if you've seen it some 10 years ago. You won't be dissapointed!

The human mind is limited. It is limited in the way it has invented the gods. It is limited in the way it imagines the near future. Ten years later the humans have game consoles far more advanced than the viewer can see in the first three minutes. But yea, the fans will talk about the story. There does not seem to be much of a story. Only action pasted over the few silly lines of text delivered with a mindless game. Well, there is the violence. That was the easy part anyway. Otherwise, a rip off Predator. Or maybe Aliens.Now comes the good part, the computer scientist kind of imagination. On Mars people have a genetic studies lab. It is below ground, obviously. It is on Mars because it was probably the closest thing to New York City in terms of rent or something. And the lab has infirmary, of course, since land is so cheap on Mars. And below everything you have subway-like sewers. And those are filled with sh*t water of course. Enough so the monsters could hide beneath the surface. And the facility has huge metal doors. Yet the access to the sewer is made through man holes with some sort of light manhole covers. It makes perfect sense. Only there is not much light to compensate for the special effects shortcomings.Otherwise, normal stuff. The doctor comes to retrieve the data. But does a dissection. The kind that you drop the flashlight in. And while the examination gloves are short, the doc has no problem putting the whole arm inside an unknown humanoid monster.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch