Release Date
March 14, 2008
DVD Release Date
July 29, 2008 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Neil Marshall
Writer
Neil Marshall
Cast
Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell
Studio
Running Time
105 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity
What is Doomsday about?
In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
I went into Doomsday expecting the worst. Despite being written and directed by Neil Marshall, the man behind The Descent, I had little hope that Doomsday would be anything more than a piss-poor Mad Max-meets-Resident Evil rip-off. In many ways it is, but Marshall embraces the ludicrous nature of his film with open arms - and it works.
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