Reasons to watch Doom: When you’re bored. Me, perhaps I just like the word "doom". WWF’s (the wrestling thugs, not the panda lovers) The Rock stars in this movie adaptation of a popular pc-game. It’s like Ghost of Mars and Resident Evil roled into one bad reel.

The setting was supposed to be as gritty and gorey as Aliens VS. Predator but I found myself laughing and flinching at the acting. I got used to The Rock’s scene-stealing deliveries so I didn’t mind his eyebrow-effect thing no longer.

There’s just too many cliché’s in this movie to count but here goes some of it:
The movie takes place on Mars. The earth people in 2025 discovers a portal that enables people to travel from here to the red planet. A team of marines are called to rescue and contain a laboratory wherein scientists got butchered by some unknown creature. The dead comes back to life when it was bitten by the “creature/s”. One by one, every 5 minutes or so, the soldiers get mutilated. Somehow, the US government fails to send back-up to the lab – so it’s a serious Mars incident and they only bring in 10 soldiers and no back-ups came with more fire power?

It got too predictable that halfway thru the movie the unthinkable happened – I dozed off. I've been watching too many movies lately.


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