[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

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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 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

[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.

| Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2008

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.

Full Review | Mar 18, 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.

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

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 17, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 17, 2008

Totally earnest but in complete awe of its predecessors.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2008

Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up. Homage without innovation isn't homage, it's karaoke.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 16, 2008

Marshall reveals himself to be a terrific showman of chaos and comic savagery. This is Baz Luhrmann's Mad Max.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2008

Those with a taste for revved-up, splattery fantasy thrills won't be complaining.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2008

Doomsday plays more like a series of mini-remakes than a single, cohesive film.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 14, 2008

I can't support or defend Doomsday in the slightest. But it's also the most fun I've had at the movies in weeks. If you're in the mood for sheer sensation without the slightest bit of intelligence, this is the flick for you.

| Mar 14, 2008