Doom (2005)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  3 / 10

  Doom was doomed right from the start. Come on, who honestly thought this was a good idea? Of all the video games to adapt with decent storylines, Universal chose a first-person horror shooter. *sigh*...oh dear. Loosely based off the video game with the same name, a squad of 'Rapid Response Tactical Soldiers' are called to a research station on Mars after a distress call. What they find is a legion of nightmarish creatures that lurk behind every corner. Nearly everything about this film is terrible. I do admire the scene that imitates the POV of the protagonist as he goes round shredding gruesome monsters with bullets and a chainsaw. Replicating the game's famous FPS aesthetics, the Mars station was a fitting environment. Aside from those small positives...yikes! This was just bad. The whole purpose of the Doom franchise was that demonic enemies from Hell were attacking. In this atrocity, the story is altered so that these creatures were synthetically created from an additional chromosome. So yes, the enemies are actually human. Why abolish the original story? What could you possibly gain from that? If the film is bad enough for the average moviegoer, then your only target audience is the fan base. Change the story, and you've lost the fans as well! To say the acting was below average is too kind. It's terrible. Clearly The Rock was not always box office gold, as he was horrendous in this. No emotion, stiff as cardboard and constantly hoisting his giant gun up at an attempt at being a badass. Karl Urban was generic. Rosamund Pike deserves better than this. Some of the visual effects were good and I applaud the use of practical effects, particularly the costumes for the creatures. The script was tedious, the characters are constantly shouting what they are about to do or what they are thinking. The lighting was dimmer than a 12th Century gothic Transylvanian castle, could hardly see a thing. Quick cuts, bad editing...I'm done. No more. Doom should simply be titled "Doom and Gloom". I can think of worst films, but this is abysmal. No question.

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