With all the movies coming out of the Hollywood these days, one needs some set of mental filters (aka stereotypes) to pick good films and avoid all the rest. But, as with any other area of human life, stereotypes can heal and harm. According to the set of movie stereotypes in my head, I was totally going to avoid the movie “Doomsday“. I’ve heard that it was about some virus outbreak, sealed contaminated area, and a bunch of people going in to find the cure. That’s all I knew, and that sounded a lot like something along the lines of “28 Days Later“, “Resident Evil“, and many other movies. Those movies, they aren’t bad, but I’ve seen enough of them.
Luckily, my friend and colleague Igor likes this type of movies a lot. So he managed to persuade me to go and see “Doomsday”. And I’m glad he did.
The story of the film was very much like I expected it. But, we weren’t there for the story, were we? It’s how one tells the story. And in this type of films, it’s all about how you show infected people, their mutations, human flash, body parts, horror, black humor, and the rest of the visual effects. “Doomsday” was pretty good in this regard. I’d say it was a little bit more bloodier than it needed, but no serious complains in this department.
All that is not very important however. Because “Doomsday” has something that so many other movies don’t. It has the spirit. The atmosphere, if you will. And it suits it very well. It is a very rock-n-roll movie. So much rock-n-roll, that it is much closer to punk rock in its spirit (and literary, most of the characters appear to be some serious fans of punk rock music).
There are a few places in the movie, which are either boring or a little bit too far fetched, but, gladly, they are very few and very short. In most of it, the film provides excellent entertainment and positive energy boost. It is mostly funny, and hilarious at places. It has excellent special effects and strong characters in it. There are a few memorable quotes, including some very peculiar ways of using an F* word (the film is very British in its nature).
So, if you like uncensored punk rock with lots of fun, if you are not easily destabilized by motion pictures, if you don’t truly belief that people in the movie suffer in pain or die in pieces, if you welcome the creativity of the creator even if it is a little bit out of your bounds sometimes, if you enjoyed “Mad Max” trilogy and darker (non-romantic) side of “Waterworld” than I strongly recommend to watch this movie. You won’t regret it.
7 out of 10.