Reviews

Now don't get me wrong. In no way is this movie a masterpiece or anything but a high-budget B-movie with some heavy cast trying their best to push this movie out of the gutter.

This is NOT a movie for anyone that hasn't played the computer game from the 1990s. This is a pure made-for-fans-only and I would not recommend anyone to have too much expectations.

But if you like the game-genre kind of movie adaptations, Doom is very true to the feeling, scenery and in most parts characters and monsters.

Without giving away any spoilers I would still like to say, YES you do get to see some true game POV scenes that is a must when making a movie about a game that maybe was the biggest part of the rise of this kind of FPS POV games as we see them today.

If you need to know what the synopsis is about, just google for the game or read it here on IMDB. And if you watch this movie in 2021, remember that this was made in 2004-2005! That is about the time that Justin Bieber stoped wearing diapers and started to lip-sync his way onto the music scene. =D.

Mix the scrips from the first movie with some Alien and then forget to hire good monster make-up artists or CGI editors .. and you will end up with this "sequel" to the Dwayne Jonson movie from 2005.

Same kind of story: special team is sent to a far away place to investigate mysterious silence in communication.

The only thing that this movie did put in some effort in (imho) is the tactical movements of the soldiers. But then again, how hard can it be to navigate to some cargo containers that are light up in yellow, futuristic neon light?

I was going to give this movie a 1/10, just as an honest rating of this B-movie. But then I did enjoy seeing a female protagonist and hero that was neither skinny nor excessivly muscular. She totally out acted her male counterparts and I was almost getting a little Alicia Vikander vibes from her. Hopefully she'll be getting some better scripts in the future, to help support her efforts in front of the camera.

Also, not all scenery was totally bad - even on a minimalistic budget - but sadly you never get the all anticipated POV storytelling anywhere in this movie. Most likely also due to the small budget.

But at least, this is a little enjoyable for all of us that have spent hours and days with the game back in the days. Remembering that the graphics in the first parts of this game-universe, would make Minecraft look realistic and multidimensional. =D.

The movie started with a BIG script blunder and then just fell from there to a desperate and pathetic drama (not spoiling what) that was so badly thought through that any kid would ask the same question; Why is something fall awat in space when you travel the same speed?

Not even the cuteness of the all american cutie Anna Kendrick could save this movie from flopping even more than Brad Pitt's failure of a space movie from last year.

I do think this movie has the intention to renew and maybe prepare the ground for a restart of the G. I. Joe franchise.

After all, it has been attempted before. But I'm not entirely sure that rewriting the entire origin story of two main counterparts of the GIJ-universe, is the right way to do it.

The complete change of Snake Eyes character and background, as well as the family connections and affiliations of Storm Shadow, just makes for a very confusing and at best "desperate" attempt to be as different as possible from the generally accepted hitory behind this toy-to-movie fantasy world.

I won't say the movie is not worth watching. There are some cool action scenes and at least in a few moments some spectacular fighting coreography. But sadly it can't hold up this entire movie, and especially since some characters are more a parody than even the previous G. I. Joe movies managed to present. If the movie was cut with 5min from the most embarrasing scenes (sub-spoiler - stone-wall camouflage master, for example), I could have agreed with the general rating of 5/10 for this.

The hype of this movie has been .. enormous ... and then they cr-p out this from their b-hind. This gives me the EXACT same feeling as the totally mind-ruining sequence in Dallas .. just before the character Bobby is waking up .. and the last most part of the series .. had just been a dream. I'll eat my shorts if the next movie doesn't have any kind of similarity to that Dallas plot-turnaround. If the Russo brothers wanted to sink the franchise to the bottom .. they sure have succeeded. I know I'm a minority in my opinion .... but maybe I'm one of the clear visioned ones, seeing what this movie really has done as far as ruin the future avengers or marvel movies. I feel cheated of any future experiences. This is not a spoiler, I'm just stating facts, together with my own opinions of a sad and boring predictable action-upgrade for every sequence .. that is the Russo brothers amateurish way of directing a movie.

This is what's wrong with movie making in the "big country of the west". They totally let movie makers create pure crap like this without even a warning label that "this will probably make you sick and vomit if you like quality movies". This is even more painful to watch than Aliens vs Avatars. My suggestion is that every viewer of this rubbish will request a psychological refund and damages from the makers of at least what it costed to rent/buy this bs (sorry, I refuse to call it movie one more time). I really hope that the cast of this "project" was smart enough to request such a good make up and fake name, that they won't be recognized when applying for roles in serious movies in the future.

There's no need for any other words than "CRAP" to describe this ... film - or whatever it should be called. If this was sold as a pre-production test filming, put together .. spoof film .. then MAYBE it could have been watched with eyes of what could be done with proper production.

But this piece of CRAP will only make sure I'll NEVER EVER watch a film made by Asylum or featuring any of the cast from this title, no matter if Angelina Jolie directs them or Jason stratham is the main star.

SHAME on you that let this out on the market and wasted valuable resources on something so pathetic it should be considered a crime against the arts. If I where a film maker, I would sue the ---- out of Asylum for destroying so much by taking this from a twisted persons mind and really capture on film.

Please erase this from history ... it's enough we have to live with Oprah and WWF. My eyes need a rinse .. all the blood in my tears are clouding my vision.