Doom (2005)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2005
	Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak (Cradle 2 the Grave, Director of Photography on Spieces, Dante's Peak, U.S. Marshals)
	Actors: Karl Urban (The Lord of the Rings 2-3, The Chronicles of Riddick, Dredd), Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day, Wrath of the Titans), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (The Scorpion King, Welcome to the Jungle)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 09.10.2013, Blu-ray, Home Cinema
Synopsis: Sarge (Johnson) and his team are sent to the planet Mars through the mysterious Ark to rescue a group of scientists after receiving a distress signal. What will they find there?
Review: Adapted from the hit video game of the same name (I am not sure but probably the original First-Person Shooter), Doom came right on time to please the nostalgic gamers, benefit from decent special effects and feature the action hero of the years 2000 in the person of The Rock. Watching it now in Blu-ray gave me the same feeling as when I watched it in a Theater in 2009: the movie looks like a copycat of Alien not trying to be too scary, but rather focusing on the Marine's team hunting down monsters in the sewers. The simplistic story actually reminds of this era in videogaming when story was not very important, unlike nowadays when even First-Persons Shooters have stories worthy of a Hollywood movie. The 5-minutes scenes towards the end when the hero shoots enemies in corridors (viewed in First Person of course) could be seen as a useless gimmick but for me completes well this adaptation. Not a major film, but a nice entertaining B-movie, for me better built than the Resident Evil series, and not taking its viewers for imbeciles without saying it. Doom doesn't pretent to be anything more than a movie in which guys with big muscles shoot monsters with the help of Big F***ing Guns.
Rating: 6 /10