I remember both DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT , two very different horror movies in both tone and feel . I wondered how writer/director would follow up on this . DOOMSDAY came along and got slaughtered by the critics and bombed at the box office so I made no attempt to see it until it came along on Sky movies recently . Whilst the critics are right to a certain degree it's nowhere bad as some of them claimed . It's certainly far from a masterpiece of course but is far more enjoyable than I was expecting
Where the critics are correct is the " Every post apocalyptic movie you've ever seen in your life plot " There's the basic premise of 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER , DEF CON 4 and MAD MAX along with nods to ALIENS and TOMB RAIDER . This isn't enough to condemn the film and is often entertaining . Indeed watching the first 15 minutes as survivors try to to storm the barricades is both impressive and bleak and the scene I remember is a couple of survivors triggering mines whilst a third is killed by an army sniper
Unfortunately where the film falls down is the horrendous lack of logic to much of the storyline . Just how quickly can barricades be erected to contain the infected ? Aren't there any farmers left alive to grow crops and herd cattle ? In fact cattle are shown so why do people become cannibals ? There's also countless scenes where petrol bombs are thrown but this contrasts with countless scenes where the Scottish society is very much medieval with no means of technology , so where'd they get they get the petrol for Molotov cocktails and cars ?
Not to be too critical DOOMSDAY is a highly watchable movie , maybe down to the fact that it's not too camp . Agreed you'll have to turn off your brain for most of it to work but there's enough gory action on screen to keep you entertained . In short it's very much a bizarre B movie
Where the critics are correct is the " Every post apocalyptic movie you've ever seen in your life plot " There's the basic premise of 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER , DEF CON 4 and MAD MAX along with nods to ALIENS and TOMB RAIDER . This isn't enough to condemn the film and is often entertaining . Indeed watching the first 15 minutes as survivors try to to storm the barricades is both impressive and bleak and the scene I remember is a couple of survivors triggering mines whilst a third is killed by an army sniper
Unfortunately where the film falls down is the horrendous lack of logic to much of the storyline . Just how quickly can barricades be erected to contain the infected ? Aren't there any farmers left alive to grow crops and herd cattle ? In fact cattle are shown so why do people become cannibals ? There's also countless scenes where petrol bombs are thrown but this contrasts with countless scenes where the Scottish society is very much medieval with no means of technology , so where'd they get they get the petrol for Molotov cocktails and cars ?
Not to be too critical DOOMSDAY is a highly watchable movie , maybe down to the fact that it's not too camp . Agreed you'll have to turn off your brain for most of it to work but there's enough gory action on screen to keep you entertained . In short it's very much a bizarre B movie