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Doomsday [Unrated/Rated] [Widescreen]

Actor(s): Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara
Director(s): Neil Marshall
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Gore
Movie Release: 2008
DVD Release: 07/29/2008
Format: DVD - Color
Edition: Dual Layered
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 2 hrs 0 mins
Studio: Universal Studios
Members Wishing: 2
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi Action
See Also: Doomsday [Unrated/Rated] [Fullscreen], Doomsday [Blu-ray]

DVD Synopsis

Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desperate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neil Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Few could have foreseen the terror that the microorganism known as "Reaper" would unleash upon the unsuspecting population, and when terrified authorities quarantined the entire country in hopes of saving the human race, the streets immediately descended into chaos. Thirty years later, the inhabitants of planet Earth think that they've seen the last of the merciless killer disease, but they couldn't be more wrong. When "Reaper" reappears more powerful than ever in a major city, an elite group of professionals led by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) are forced to travel back into the sealed-off country where the virus first broke out in order to create a cure and save humankind from certain doom. Now, as the rest of the world anxiously awaits word of their ultimate fate, Eden and her brave team are about to find out that there is indeed a hell, and they are about to journey directly into its black, envenomed heart. Also in the cast are Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell, as well as a host of veterans from Marshall's past productions, including Sean Pertwee, MyAnna Buring, Craig Conway, and Nora-Jane Noone. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Actors

Rhona Mitra - Eden Sinclair
Bob Hoskins - Bill Nelson
Adrian Lester - Seargent Norton
Alexander Siddig - John Hatcher
David O'Hara - Canaris

Member Movie Reviews

Shannon H. from RICHLAND, MO wrote on 10/19/2009...

This is my kind of movie!

Jorge S. (jorgito2001) from WESLEY CHAPEL, FL wrote on 8/13/2009...

As another review stated, it starts out "28 Days Later" & turns into "Mad Max". Great direction & lots of action..just not what I expected. Rhona Mitra can easily be an action superstar if she starred in more movies like this!

Jeff V. (burielofmel) from HARRIMAN, TN wrote on 8/6/2008...

0 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is like Mad Max meets Escape From New York. Has some bonus material but said material isn't all that interesting. The movie is okay but not really the type of movie I've been yearning for lately.

Jason C. (JJC) from NEWARK, NJ wrote on 7/7/2008...

2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

"Doomsday" is a film I've been yearning for lately, and coincidentally it arrived just in time. I kept saying to all my movie-heads that the "Midnite" films of the 70s and 80s have passed us, they're long gone...those cult films that made the movie experience unique and important of all, fun. We need them! Well, "Doomsday" is that film I've been missing all those years ago.

A homage to "Escape from New York" and "The Road Warrior" (and add a little dose of the zombie film), "Doomsday" tells the story of an epidemic known as the Reaper Virus, that spreads in modern day and was contained with a 30 foot steel wall around Scotland with basically everyone in it left to die. 25 years later, the epidemic presents itself again outside the wall but this time, the British Government has a possible hope.

A classified government file from three years prior presents satellite photos of survivors left in Scotland, with no infection...indicating a possible cure. An elite team of special operatives led by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) along with two scientists are sent into Scotland to find this "cure," if it even exists....but Scotland is not the land it once was.

Most of the remaining survivors have turned into vicious, psychopathic cannibals led by Sol (Craig Conway) who runs this carnival of mayhem. Sol has taken major interest on why after 25 years, the outside world has come back in. Also a major leader is Dr. Kane (Malcolm McDowell) who has stationed himself in the highlands of Scotland, away from Sol (his son) and the freaks of nature. Kane, a once respected scientist, now lives like a medieval king, and accepts the primitive life and bans all word of the outside world, which he's brainwashed to his cult, does not exist anymore. But does Kane have the cure?

"Doomsday" is such a great time, that the kid who watched "Escape From New York" and "The Road Warrior" for the first time, came back after all those years. Great drive-in fun!! Directed by Neil Marshall, who gave us two great horror films already, "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent," really does a great job with this inspiring material. I love how one minute you're watching a futuristic sci-fi film and then the next, you're watching a medieval film, and then next you're watching a post-apocalyptic extravaganza. Brilliance. Rhona Mitra is the heroine, looking amazingly sexy and doing a great job meshing the roles of anti-heros Snake Plissken and Mad Max, as the tough as nails solider, Eden! Craig Conway does his best Vernon Wells (Wez from "The Road Warrior") imitation as Sol, in a great psycho performance, and Malcolm McDowell...well...need I say more?

It has the car chase action of "The Road Warrior", the crazy world inside the prison of "Escape from New York" and a "Resident Evil" feel of action and horror! I loved every minute of this ode to the Midnite movies of yesteryear!

GO SEE IT...AND HAVE A GREAT TIME!

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