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REEL REVIEWS
Weak, overused plot dooms Doomsday film at box office
KATIE BRADFORD
The end is nigh. Hmm. . . Ive heard this before.It seems that
every threemonths, another horror/thriller/action/sci-fi
some-thing-or-other is released towarn us about the vari-ety of
different diseases thatwill destroy the world.
Doomsday is yet anotherversion of this popular trendin
science-fiction, and it isnot near as impressive as itsbrothers. In
fact, it blatant-ly copies aspects of thesepopular films, namely
the28 Days/Weeks Later series badly. Even the viruseshave similar
names.
In fact, the most irritatingpart is that I expected muchbetter
from writer/director
Neil Marshall, who isresponsible for the originaland terrifying
(and personalfavourite) The Descent. Imactually finding it
difficultto decide where to begin,and wondering if my wordlimit
will be sufficient.
Perhaps Ill begin byattempting to explain the
plot; attempting because Ihardly understand it
myself.Apparently, a virus brokeout in Great Britain theworst of
which in Scotland which causes boils, murder-ous rampages, and
throwingup of various liquids. TheUK government sectionedoff
Scotland with a verylarge wall a-la Berlin andleft the Scots to be
killedoff. They then went on tolive happily in an overpopu-lated,
unemployed, povertystricken utopia.
In 2035 the virus breaksout in the safe zone, andthey decide its
time to ven-ture back across the wall.
Why? Apparently theybelieve that civilizations onthe other side
have a cure.
They send Eden Sinclair(Rhona Mitra, one of the fewredeeming
qualities of thefilm) and an elite squadronof special police to
retrievethe cure, but are ambushedby a punch of punk rockers. . .
or cannibals . . . or punkrock cannibals . . . no oneis really sure
what they are,
just that theyre alive, tickedoff, and hungry for humans.
Other civilizations, non-punk rock ones, are found.They live in
a castle. Itslike Medieval Times, exceptno free food, funny hats
oradmission fee. The castleis explained, but never thefull adoption
of a MedievalSociety.
Apparently none of thesedetails are important, simi-lar to any
character devel-opment or back-story, orstory at all (save a few
shortscenes).
The film tries desperatelyto be original, but only man-ages to
be infuriating andeven incomprehensible attimes. I have no clue
whythey dress as punk rockers.
Most of the serious actionmade me snicker, as did the
concept that this film is any-thing more than a straight-
to-DVD piece of trash. Skipit, I beg of you.
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