Review: Doomsday (Madmax ‘08)
Mankind has a expiration date…
Stealing from “28 days later”, “V for Vendetta” and “Madmax”, we see a futuristic look at what the government is ready to do when life becomes a political chess piece, and nothing more.
Doomsday opens with a “virus” already running rampant throughout the British Isles. The spread of the aptly named “reaper” virus is taking lives in the thousands in the first few hours of the spread.
Newspaper articles are strewn across the movie screen trying to show us the atrocities that are happening due to a massive 30 foot wall going up to contain the virus. Murder, rape, become the norm in a society left in a contamination zone to die. Or to survive?
We are introduced to Eden (our main character) as a child with her mother trying to drive out of the city only to be stopped by the sheer mass of people trying to exit before the doors are closed for good. We see lots of heads rolling, bodies flying all the while introducing laughs that shouldn’t be producing laughs. The corniness this film introduces early on continues throughout the story-line.
Present day Eden is a force to be reckoned with on the police force working under Bill Nelson (the good cop stuck in between the politically calloused and the military tyrants). We have seen this story-line many times before. Is this different? Not really.
The lack of acting ability was overcome by an immeasurable amount of blood and gore. Burning bodies, heads rolling (literally), and to make it more of a B movie, they even throw in some boobies for you to see before they got bloodied up.
With a cast of familiar british actors but no one to carry this movie, the acting falls short of anything above par. Rhona Mitra gives the audience something to look at in Eden Sinclair, but the acting falls short all around. With the likes of Bob Haskins, David O’Hara, and the ever popular Malcolm McDowell, you would expect more. This movie is a mess of chaos, overdone blood, death, boobies and more. If you are into films that have an outrageous plot line, a futuristic style, and a lack of acting. This is the movie for you. It reminds me a little of the Resident Evil series. Although its a train wreck in terms of acting, the film entertains to a degree.
Overall I would not recommend this to many of my friends.
