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Doomsday (DVD)
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU17 9UW, GB
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- Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- DVD/ Blu-Ray/ HD-DVD: DVD
- Region: Region 2: Europe
- Title: Doomsday (DVD)
- Leading Role: Nora-Jane Noone, Adrian Lester, Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Malcolm McDowell, David O'Hara, Alexander Siddig, Sean Pertwee
- Director: Neil Marshall
- Rating: UK:18
- EAN: 5050582540338
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Loud, violent, and proudly derivative, the post-apocalyptic action-thriller Doomsday is the latest from UK cult director Neil Marshall, who impressed horror fans with his previous efforts, Dog Soldiers and The Descent.
Both pictures established Marshall as a director with a knack for
reinventing well-worn genre pictures, but here, he seems more interested
in stitching together favorite scenes and elements from established
horror and science-fiction films. Escape from New York is the main source for Doomsday, though there are plenty of nods to The Road Warrior
and its multitude of Italian-made carbon copies, as well as the
zombie/plague subgenre; the lovely but impassive Rhona Mitra is the
Snake Plissken-esque loner sent by police (represented by Bob Hoskins)
to infiltrate Scotland, which has descended into anarchy following a
viral outbreak. The disease has surfaced in London (now a walled
city), and Mitra is dispatched to find a scientist who may possess a
cure. Marshall's vision of Scotland in ruins brings together the
punk/modern primitive costume design of George Miller's Mad Max
trilogy with some eclectic homegrown elements (knights on horseback
defending a gang leader's castle), and while these touches are novel,
the picture as a whole should ring overly familiar to any viewer who's
spent time in the exploitation trenches during the past 25 years.
Younger and less discerning audience members will undoubtedly enjoy the
plentiful violence and gore, as well as the unbridled performances of
the supporting cast, especially stuntwoman/actress Lee-Ann Liebenberg as
the heavily tattooed Viper.