The Movie

DOOM was released in 2005 with high expectations from fans of the overly famous FPS game series but with little acclaim due to the way it was produced. It centers on the latest installment of the series, mainly DOOM 3, which abandons most of the Biblical demonic lore in lieu of scientific mutations and zombified foes.

The movie is dark. Not in a figurative way but the fact that most of the film is just shrouded in darkness, hard to see anything as protagonists fire at mostly nothing and scream all about the place while being taken off one by one by ugly rendered CGI monsters. Starring Dwayne Johnson the Rock, who is not exactly the main hero despite what the movie poster would let anyone know,

During the course of the film it’s known that things went wrong because scientists messed around with tissue from alien beings found on Mars, experimenting on human beings and in turn turning them into vile creatures who either kill or infect others turning them into zombified, soulless beings that go out doing the same. Karl Urban being the main protagonist plays the titular "DOOM guy," fending off mutated research scientists and his own crazed commander while trying to survive the laboratory research compound in Mars where things went haywire at the beginning of the film. Urban along with his space marine squad confront the menacing creatures and tries to survive while also dodging Dwayne’s character who slowly succumbs to the infection. Near the end of the film it treats the viewer with one of the most hilarious scene emulating the game itself, going around in a first person point of view fighting off monsters after taking a super serum.

The movie has some nice scenes with shooting fanfare but it gets turned down pretty easily with all the jibber jabber about scientific stuff and lore about alien mutations and other stuff that would make you feel lost if you try to follow it. Unnecessary things like a display showcasing and alien being who is a bit above a human one and other stuff I can’t bother to remember because it just seem to be detached with anything else. There are some nods to the videogame here and there, including the BFG which Dwayne "comically" refers it as a "big f*cking gun," and some monsters straight from the third game do appear here, but there is not much else besides most of the movie taking place in Mars otherwise.

While the movie does have its moments action wise, its nothing more than a zombie flick at its core, with infected beings attacking infantry squads and some of the squad members becoming the infected themselves. It’s really a mixed bag when the word DOOM is slapped on the movie to remind you of what it’s supposed to be based on really. Dwayne Johnson's acting is quite wooden and his deliveries worst than what he ever did during his wrestling career at WWE(F), but I can get behind on him shooting stuff for the most part. Just like Street Fighter, DOOM is a videogame movie in name only, one that could had been better off being called anything else and you would believe it could had been (very) loosely on said game.

My score: D

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