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Doomsday
SPOILERS:
First of from the look of the trailers, i had a feeling this wouldn't be great.
In my opinion, Neil Marshell's career started with a fun and very enjoyable werewolf romp and continued with an atmospheric, sppoky and mature Horror film. Its should a great development of his directing skills. This film in many ways a feel is a step back.
Don't get me wrong, this is an entertaining, unoriginal post apocalypic flick and if it was churned out by one of the Hollywood director droids I wouldn't have been so dissapointed. Its just i expected more from Neil Marshall.
Plotwise the film starts off like 28day later (or any other virus/epidemic film) then it jumps 30-ish years later and turns straight in Escape from New York.
New york is now a walled city filled with a Road warrior postApoc scum. And by New York I of courrse mean Scotland. Any way the government think theres a cure up there and they send in a Special Ops cop (who is played by someone who is not Kate Beckinsale ) to find it it.
The rest runs pretty much to the book with scenes lifted straight from Road Warrior/Thunderdome and lots of other End of days flicks. There are lots of great little touches in it - the sign on the bus read 'out of fucking service' and a Gift shop sign on the wall of Kanes castle.
At the end of the day its a fun flick and i've seen a lot worse (the cider helped) but when some one can make a film like The descent then you think he'd come up with some thing a little better......
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