Review of Doomsday

Fine Young Cannibals

You know how sometimes movies are released with titles that aren't really their titles overseas on the bootleg VCD market? A film involving a shark will be called DEEP BLUE SEA 2, or random Eugene Levy sex comedy (let's just pretend there are a lot of them, okay?) will be called AMERICAN PIE 5. DOOMSDAY, if it doesn't make a name for itself at the box office could easily be called GRINDHOUSE 2... Actually, that's a bad example since it didn't do such hot business. MAD MAX 4, ESCAPE FROM SCOTLAND, or 28 YEARS LATER might be better. Each of are compliments. I'm not taking the piss out of the film one bit. It's an all you can eat buffet for genre film lovers. Part plague film, part post apocalyptic punk film, part medieval film, part James Bond chase film come Mad Max chase... DOOMSDAY is going to be the most bloody fun you have all year at the movies. I can't imagine a grislier badass film getting a theatrical release. If I were titling it for the foreign VCD market, I'd probably call it 28 DOOMSDAYS LATER: THE ROAD WARRIORS OF GORE AND PUNK ROCK ESCAPE FROM SCOTLAND. When the day comes that someone makes a film that's dubbed DOOMSDAY 2, put me down for a copy.

-Jeff
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Posted on 03/15/08 by: Jeff. 10:34 PM