Doom: Critic Reviews

It's pretty clear by now that characters in sci-fi movies have never seen a sci-fi movie.

In this formulaic, claustrophobic shoot'em-up, based on a video game, soldiers quell a mutant uprising on Mars.

Charmless and brainless.

It's surprising The Rock's latest is as bearable as it is.

A good movie version of a video game as opposed to, say, an actual movie.

The only way this movie becomes any fun is when it stops impersonating a game and simply becomes one.

Yes, Doom is a bad movie but you already knew that.

Not only do we rarely get to participate in the fun -- fun being the chance to watch demon guts splattered across the walls -- but there's barely any to be found.

Doom ain't Shakespeare. But it's not bad.

Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play.

Despite some solid moves against viewer expectations, Doom ultimately embraces the cliched doom of all video game movies.

[A] dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.

Too often Doom is mindless entertainment minus the entertainment.

The only downside is that you can't use cheat codes to reach the end of the movie.

Videogame geeks and LAN-party enthusiasts everywhere, prepare to meet your Doom -- because it's really not all that bad.

Another sorry chapter in Hollywood's infatuation with video games, Doom is basically a deadly dull rehash of Resident Evil, which in turn was a third-generation clone of Aliens.

This isn't worth turning off the PlayStation to go see.

This movie proves that the best place to enjoy a video game is in your living room with a cordless precision controller iron-gripped in your sweaty hands.

Doom has some good jolts and action sequences, and never takes itself too seriously. However, watching the squad roaming around the dark corridors and sewer system of the research station starts to get repetitive.

It's unfathomable how many times Hollywood has struck out in attempts to convert popular video/computer games into movies. This is the kind of misfire that reinforces negative stereotypes.

There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault.

Just your basic Aliens rip-off with the name of a formerly popular video game franchise tacked on it.

It's as bad as we expect it to be.

Roger Ebert put it best, "Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play."