Doom (2005)

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.

DOOM presents the sci fi atmosphere of the beautiful UAC Mars station in DOOM 3 and the mystery of what is going on as well of the morals of dealing with it very well in the first half, and delivers gory action the game's fans expect in the second. DOOM 3 fans will be pleased by the references, but this can be a little hard to place in a genre. It is a bit tame for a horror or action movie, so I prefer to classify it as a thriller. Like what DOOM 3 did for the franchise, it is more about the sci fi atmosphere of the place and the mysteries surrounding it and how it might affect Earth and the people at the station. More stars if they had a little better effects and took us all the way to hell, tho. Kudos for placing a part of the sequence in the first person perspective like the game. Also, it is very faithful to the source material with the look and feel of the space station, teleporting, Pinkie the Cyberdemon, and issues with the Sarge. At first, I hated the Sarge's character development, but I also recognize it is the opportunity for the best acting in the film. Rosamund Pike also really acts her heart out in her role as sister to a marine and a devoted forensic scientist. She shows real passion and resolve in investigating the mystery, and striking shock and horror wnen it goes all wrong. She really carries the viewer from scene to scene and will help non gamers have a character to identify with. But, seriously, Karl Urban, Star Trek's "I'm a doctor" bones is doomguy ? That makes it a must see for DOOM 3 fans and modern Star Trek fans alike. I watched it twice, and was glued to my seat each time.

One of the best game adaptation movie beside Resident evil! I really love the movie. And since i also played the game, i have no complaint about this. Well, although the story is predictable, but it is well executed. And it teaches you that no one knows the human heart. If you are a good person, then you'll be better. If you are bad, then welcome the monster. If you are into an action-horror genre, this is the right movie for you. You will be pleased with the action scene and the martial arts also. And there's a part when it's just like in the game, where the camera took the point of view from the main character, and it's like you who shoot the zombie monster. And it's cool!

This film pulls off the neat trick of ripping off like 4 different Aliens movies at once. It's a feat of screen writing. It's good fun for a long time, nonetheless. The casting is rather good, I've never liked Urban as much in anything else as I did in this. Rosamund Pike is great as always. And great credit for casting The Rock in a bad guy role. Dwayne Johnson is much better-suited to be playing menacing heavies like this than his usual stuff. He started out as a heel in wrestling for a good reason. Anyway it's well-made, by the numbers kind of stuff. It includes a 'revelation' of something the audience had figured out literally a half hour prior. Bad writing there. But it doesn't connect the twins' parents' death to the current plot - which is good writing and shows restraint. The monsters were OK. Nothing special. The rules of the hunt weren't really established - movie didn't quite play fair. Monsters would seemingly reappear out of nowhere when needed, when realistically, 3 or 4 giant monsters rampaging around would make a lot of noise and be hard to miss. There's a rather brilliant bit late. Urban has just 'evolved' via the injection. The film suddenly wakes up, as he wakes up, and suddenly we're seeing a hyper-kinetic film version of a first-person shooter game. Stylistically this works in two ways at once, showing how he sees now with heightened awareness and intelligence and ability, while also doing the cool homage to the game.Unfortunately, following this wonderful scene, we get a horrible endless drawn out terrible tedious not interesting at all knock down drag out between Urban and the Rock, both enhanced. This damn scene just refuses to end. There's literally no tension or interest whatsoever, the thing isn't filmed interestingly, or choreographed interestingly - we know who's going to win, and Pike's character has already been safely seen away, meaning there's nothing at stake in the scene and no risk to anybody. It's just bad. It's a slog. A huge comedown after the amazing rush of the first-person shooter sequence.But all in all, not a bad movie. As a fan of such stuff (monster movies, sci-fi action films, etc) I enjoyed it. No regrets.