This film tells of a strong combat mission by the elite fighting unit that is locked in the final battle to find a cure in the post-apocalyptic region. It seems that this mission will be dangerous because that region is dominated by a society of murderous dissidents and trying to do its utmost to prevent it from entering a new dark age.
I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it.
Creative Loafing
August 06, 2008
One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.
...a Whitman's sampler of bizarre story ideas and visual gimmicks, congealing around a premise that is so straightforward that it affords them no groundwork for stability or realization.
[Director] Marshall cribs whole sections from other movies (Aliens and The Road Warrior, most blatantly) so baldly that you have to wonder how he'd like it if someone ripped off The Descent this egregiously.
Much as one might admire the British health care system as presented in the documentary Sicko, even Michael Moore would have to admit they have a hard time over there coping with apocalyptic viruses.
Movies.com
April 04, 2011
In terms of sheer excitement, it's the best movie of 2008.
Most fantasy-action films blow their budgets in the first half-hour, and limp home with their makeup smeared. Doomsday is unusually patient, smartly saving most of its fireworks for the later innings.
If you can accept this farrago of nonsense, and enjoy simulated beheadings and lopped-off hands and massive spurts and splashes of blood, this may be the movie for you.
