Doomed (2007)

Just what I expected

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

I am not a "Survivor" fan. I find all those game boring. But, come up with a "Survivor" episode where you have to escape a bunch of zombies to win the prize, and I'll be glued to the set.Forget the story here, what there is of it has so many holes it looks like Swiss cheese, and the dialog is rehashed from other low budget films.In fact, halfway through a hot girl called looking for a shoulder to cry on and I muted the sound and read the subtitles while we talked. I guess everyone else was out partying, and I was the only one left. I didn't miss a thing. That's how heavy this was.Bottom line, the only person in this film with any experience was Mary Christina Brown. But the fact that there was no nudity, and no gore made this one zombie film to pass on - even if you see it free.

This has to be one of the worst films of this year. The special effects were horrible and amateur. Totally low budget as well. Everything was typical from start, it starts off with killing the off the two black actors in the beginning and through out the film it was so annoying to see how these people had no sense of survival which is typical in these types of films, it was just way too predictable. The zombies weren't even realistic or scary. They look like they were wearing Halloween costumes in all honesty. It's no wonder it went straight to DVD. I couldn't imagine this even playing in the Theaters. I would be seriously p*ssed off if I paid to see this honestly.

Or at least smarter ones...Here's the setup... Convicted criminals are placed on the "Isla Di Romero" (if that isn't a dead giveaway) and have to get to the other side of the island in the nature of a Reality TV show. Unbeknownst to the contestants, the island is inhabited by Zombies who are the result of the government's attempt to create a super-soldier.Now, paint me blue and call me silly, but if the government was trying to hide this program, do you think they'd let a bunch of reality TV guys use their island to film their TV show? And if they "nuked" the island, don't you think there wouldn't be so many lush plants growing this soon? Yes, yes, you aren't supposed to use logic in a film like this, any more than you have a bunch of people who apparently have never seen a Zombie movie before. Like you don't go anywhere alone, and you don't leave people who can help you behind...This movie illustrated the famous Joe Bob Briggs rule of Drive in Movies (which will soon be the rule of Direct to DVD movies.) Anyone can die at any time. The characters we are supposed to like, the Marine and the Nurse, are dispensed with fairly quickly, while the characters you don't like almost make it to the end of the movie..None of the characters are given any back story... Why were they sent to prison? Were the charges just or not? (which would have given the audience someone to cheer for or against.) Now, this COULD have been a fun movie. Reality TV is an institution that thoroughly deserves to be lampooned. Unfortunately, the film misses the mark by a mile.

Presented in the form of a game show (Think The Running Man or Survivor - Series 7, but not a good as either one) you have Doomed.It's cast are all no-namers and that should be the huge give-away right there. It takes ideas from films like Fortress, Resident Evil, Dawn Of The Dead and manages to make a pretty bad film.It's pretty low budget or looks that way.Teams of convicts are paired together (yep, that'll be stolen from Fortress then) and are told they must make it across the island alive to win the prize. (Hmm, sounds just like Battle Royale actually) But they have unknown objects in their way (like Zombies, how predictable. George Romero must be laughing at the idea) and of course are fighting amongst themselves and each other.To be honest the plot is pretty thin and laughable. None of the tension or scares actually work. Finding zombies or failed military experiments in a forgotten bunker has been done in all sorts of things (Lost would be the most recent) and it really wasn't done all that different here.I got the feeling the writer had played the game Smash TV as a child (the game ideas are very alike) and had seen the Day Of The Dead remake (that's where he stole his crap and predictable from a mile away ending).Because the cast are all complete unknowns, you know most of them are going to die anyway.This is tired, predictable and adds nothing to the survival horror or zombie genres.