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Starring: Karl Urban,  Rosamund Pike,  Ben Daniels,  Razaaq Adoti,  Richard Brake, 
Directed By: Andrzej Bartkowiak, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 2005-10-21
Studio: Universal Studios
Format: AC-3,  Color,  Dolby,  Dubbed,  DVD-Video,  Subtitled,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

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Product Description
A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary Marines into action. Led by The Rock and Karl Urban they descend into the Olduvai Research Station where they find a legion of nightmarish creatures lurking in the darkness killing at will. Once there the Marines must use an arsenal of firepower to carry out their mission: nothing gets out alive. Based on the hugely popular video game Doom is an explosive action-packed thrill ride!System Requirements:Running Time: 113 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 025192031229 Manufacturer No: 20312

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Grab your BFG and get ready to kick some Martian-demon butt in Doom, another entry in the increasingly crowded videogame-to-movie genre. The Rock plays Sarge, the commander of a squad of Marines sent to investigate a disturbance at a scientific research facility on Mars. Among the squad is John Grimm (Karl Urban, who played Eomer in The Lord of the Rings), who turns out to have had a previous relationship with Samantha (Rosamund Pike, Die Another Day), the scientist who's accompanying the Marines in order to retrieve some vital data from the facility. Based on id Software's legendary first-person shooter, Doom tries its best to look like a game, with dark, angled corridors, ferocious creatures appearing out of nowhere, and a variety of lethal weapons that will, like the aforementioned BFG, warm the cockles of a gamer's heart. There's also one memorable sequence that actually turns the movie into a first-person shooter; the good news is that in the context of the whole film, it's not quite as goofy as it might have been. And that's not a bad frame of reference for the film in general. Considering the game-to-movie field includes such duds as Wing Commander, if you go into Doom with low expectations, you'll probably find it a surprisingly respectable horror/sci-fi thriller in the Resident Evil vein (including its somewhat obligatory subplot of corporate wrongdoing). Also in its favor is that it's unabashedly R-rated, for the extreme gore that is a trademark of the game. After all, the purpose of the movie is to pack scares and thrills into a setting that gamers will quickly recognize. In that sense, it qualifies as a success. --David Horiuchi

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Customer Reviews

Could Have Been Great, Just OK
I am a fan of almost Sci-Fi movies and video games, so am predispositioned to rate even "bad" movies as at least watchable. Sadly, this is the group Doom falls into. The premise is fairly straight forward and those who played game will likely enjoy seeing the monsters "fleshed out" (pun intended :-) but it loses a lot in translation from game to movie.

"The Rock" turned in a strong performance and perhaps saved the film almost singlehandedly. The special effects were great in some parts and fairly weak in others, which leads me to believe that there was more than one production company working on the CGI elements.

Overall, it is watchable and even enjoyable if you are fan of the genre.

Intense science fiction/horror, entertaining
I enjoyed this film on TV and finally purchased the DVD for myself. The extended addition has a good number of additional scenes edited out for TV, although a warning is that the box says it is 1 hr 53 min, but it is more like 1 hr 43 min, with almost 10 minutes of end credits. The action is still good, even more so with the extra scenes that explain more of the action and the raunchiness of the film. It is entertaining and suspenseful, but this is also pretty brutal sci-fi/monster stuff. The male lead, Urban, has played the tough warrior in several films of this genre and does a really good job here. The Rock's character changes towards the end, doing a moral flip-flop that seems to be motivated by fear. The female lead is a puny, skinny thing with a wierd facial expression, always seeming to be surprised or shocked -- she's frail and vulnerable, classic wimpy female stuff, often screaming, and not the tough chick that has been showing up in a good many films in the last decade. A Xena type would have been a lot more interesting and fun than this wimpy one, who needs men to protect her. There are other drawbacks to the film too. I didn't appreciate the traditional female exploitation by having to have a fully naked woman so the slimy members of the team could make a move to rape her. That wasn't just demeaning to women but also disgusting and inappropriate, gratuitous rather than meaningful to the film itself. Also, the bigger problem is that most of the film is just way too dark. It's very hard to see what's going on. I kept turning my brightness up on my TV, but of course that doesn't help when the dark portions of the film are also flat. It just gives you a kind of fog. Of course, in the end the storyline is rather old, being more or less vampirish, so the film could have been done along more innovative or intellectual lines except that it is just an action thriller and so indicative of the weaknesses in the genre as well as the strengths. Overall, it was still entertaining, but if there is a Doom 2, it'd be nice to have the writers and producers come into the 21st century where women are concerned, having bold strong women rather than weaklings and victims.

A BLATANT HACK-JOB VERSION OF RESIDENT EVIL 7.5 OUT OF 10
I must admit, Doom had much more potential to be a movie than most other games. It's not that it's bad, there still good to be had, but it just could have done so much more. I love the original Doom for SNES and PC, but the movie borrows too much from the first Resident Evil movie and doesn't really capture the spirit of the classic game. Not to mention the fact that I did not know that I would be stamping this film as the 18th zombie I've watched.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: A team of marines are sent to Mars to investigate a distress call put out from a remote research center on the planet called the Olduvai Research Station. Strange things begin happening; scientists are dead, terrifying creatures lurk in the dark and wait to eat and infect the soldiers, all while trying to figure out what Chromosome-24 does to the human body when injected into the system. The storyline just isn't that great, it borrows pages from the first Resident Evil movie, only Resident Evil told its story in a much better fashion in every single way and it was more explanatory.
GORE FACTOR: Limb-ripping, flesh eating, and even some chainsaw action, but there is very little present most of the time.
MUSIC: Why is this music even here? It sucks! There is not much present, and it doesn't fit the themes of the movie.
SCARE FACTOR: You will mostly end up laughing at its attempt to be scary, because it is not scary at all. The creature designs sure look great though, and seem to follow the game.
ENTERTAINMENT: You will mostly find it to be comedic, even though it is unintentional. Certain action scenes are quite entertaining, while others are just downright stupid. For example: The fight scene at the end of the movie. It's like watching a freaking Jean Claude Van Damme movie for Godsake (UUUUGGGGHHHHH.....). It does a decent job of ripping off Resident Evil, but it just doesn't really follow the spirit of the awesome game.
OVERALL: It's worth a rental, maybe even a buy if you're interested enough. Just don't expect to be wowed by anything.
THE GOOD: Decent gore, decent ripping off of the first Resident Evil movie, and it's funny.
THE BAD: Doesn't really follow the spirit of the game, music is awful, and the movie is unintentionally funny.

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Doomed to Failure
The Good Things
*Good special effects.
*The last 13 minutes or so were great. The movie's finale includes a fantastic sequence designed to look just like a FPS game. Not to mention, having the Rock turn into a villian and the other guy become a hero was a great twist.
*The music score/soundtrack is awesome.

The Bad Things
*A very weak adaptation of the computer game. The story line is totally different. There are no scary demons and there is no Hell, just a bunch of ugly zombies on a martian base (albiet, the movie tried to keep up with the demonology by having people turn into demons; it is somewhat interesting).
*The movie itself has a weak filming style. It is very forgetable (save for the last 13 minutes) and indistinctive. I found much of it dull and boring.

Overall, this is like a B-rated flick with good special effects and it just happens to share the title of the computer game. I believed that "Doom" could have been promising as a movie, but this film falls short with its dull photography and uninteresting story. Only the ending is worthwhile (and the soundtrack, if you like metal).

The video and audio quality are good, and the disc has a few featurettes. The unrated version has one or two extra featurettes as well (I'm not sure what makes it unrated, though).

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