A sloppy ode to John Carpenter

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 6, 2023

The look of the picture is atmospheric and perfectly terrifying, but the eventual clashes and tragedies involve generic soldiers barely worthy of individual names.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Marshall's pilfering is brazen... but his movie is such an exhilarating, hell-for-leather ride that by the time you spot borrowings from Excalibur and Gladiator you'll probably applaud him for his cheek.

| Nov 4, 2020

Marshall sabotages himself here with a script that tries to accomplish far too much.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

It's a jumbled mishmash of genres and tones. It doesn't always work, but when it does it REALLY does.

| Oct 31, 2018

[It] may not have anything new to bring to the gallows, but what it does have is Marshall's deadly serious tone (one suspects Marshall could direct Robin Williams and Christopher Walken in Waiting for Godot and come out of it with his genre cred intact)

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 19, 2018

Filmmaker Neil Marshall delivers a blisteringly-paced opening stretch that effectively establishes the movie's dystopian landscape and the rough-and-tumble protagonists...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2018

Doomsday does for the 1980s-style post-apocalypticism of Road Warrior what Grease did for the 1950s. It turns it into a kiddie musical. The difference is that people liked Grease.

| Nov 15, 2017

...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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2013

I somehow ended up admiring "Doomsday" for being the most unapologetically ridiculously, preposterous action movie I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 29, 2012

Marshall's adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2011

In terms of sheer excitement, it's the best movie of 2008.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

As it slogs through one hectic yet mundane set pieces after another, the film slowly drowns in its own pool of clichs.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 29, 2010

One's enjoyment of Doomsday might stem from how much one admires a blatant homage to the 1980s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2008

Doomsday might seem novel - if you've never seen "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," "Escape from New York" or any other post-apocalyptic flick before.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2008

A bit like a medley of greatest hits performed by a hot, young talent who brings a new vocal inflection to the tired, old standards.

| Jul 10, 2008

Doomsday possde dfinitivement toutes les caractristiques d'un film culte en devenir, mme si celles-ci nous laissent toujours en tte une curieuse impression de dj vu.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 8, 2008

A tribute to the early 1980s anarchy actioners The Road Warrior and Escape From New York, Neil Marshall's Doomsday also blends elements from 28 Days Later for a fun and ultra-violent action-sci-fi-kinda-horror film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2008

Get your Mad Max mutant-maniacs-in-monster-machines on.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Jun 12, 2008