DOOMSDAY (2008)

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Neil Marshall is the future of cinema.

Doomsday is bloody magnificent.

With influences that include 80’s classics like "Escape From New York," "Road Warrior," and "Excalibur" Doomsday is another extraordinary example (very much like the other genre-bending film "GRINDHOUSE") to how much fun and how much of an adrenaline rush cinema can be.

The performances are pitch perfect for this kind of film, the action scenes are state of the art, the cinematic and technical aspects of the film are flawless, and the way the film just builds and builds to a towering crescendo brings many of the original masters of horror to mind.

The story is simple: an elite team of soldiers are sent in (led by the uber-sexy Rhona Mitra (who i hope finally gets the due she deserves)) to a desolated land where many years ago the government blocked in an entire country because of a virus that killed anything it touched. well now that virus has been reborn again outside the towering walls where a nation thought it was safe. the team is sent in to the already infected ruins inside the walls to find a cure because evidence has been discovered that suggests after many years there are still survivors. from there we are exposed to cannbalism, rock concerts, knights and gladiators, castles, torture, human bbq, car chases and battles, and one stone cold hottie who gives new meaning to tongue flicking.

DOOMSDAY is a balls-out hardcore action film that fits many genres, many influences, and many stunts into one insane wild ride.

And the music brings elements of John Carpenter’s movie music with cowboy western and hard rock influences, tyler bates did the score (his others include 300, the devil’s rejects, and rob zombies halloween) and is turning into quite the composer to look out for.

I loved every minute of this damn film (Rhona Mitra is the new Snake Pliskenn, and does wonderful things with her "eye" lol) and is easily gonna be on my top films of 2008. its violent, scary, funny, insane, and gruesome... and it shows that director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) is definitely at the top of his game.

DOOMSDAY gets an A

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