Doomsday (2008)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Centurion)
	Actors:  Rhona Mitra (Hollow Man, Shooter), Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm Mc Dowell (A Clockwork Orange, Halloween, Suck), Sean Pertwee (Howl, Gotham TV-series), MyAnna Buring (Kill List)
	Country: GB, USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 19.02.2016, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After a plague hits Scotland, the world (and in particular England) decides to quarantine the whole country by building a wall around it. On the day the wall closes, 7-year old Eden (Mitra) manages to escape. 25 years later, now a special forces agent, she is tasked with leading a team beyond the wall to find a cure for the recurrent disease that now threatens London.
Review: I loved Doomsday when I discovered it at the Munich Fantasy Film Festival in 2008. I was already familiar with the work of Neil Marshall and I kept on following him ever since. What a story: rebuilding Hadrien's wall to keep Scotland at bay! Knowing the History between the two countries, I find that the plot hits the mark, and such an irony confirmed that Marshall belongs to the new wave of European Genre directors to follow. Malcolm Mc Dowell is brilliant, Rhona Mitra an athletic sexy deadly weapon, and other actors like David O'Hara overplay their part for the joy of fans of the genre like me. Some scenes are pure fan-service (the rabbit!) while others and one in particular are the first that come to mind to whomever I ask who had seen the movie 8 years ago. If you are one of those, does BBQ remind you of something? Would you rather see a post-apocalyptic movie with cannibals, riots, world leaders fighting for power, high-tech, medieval battles or pimped cars races? Well thanks to Neil Marshall you don't have to chose and he gives you all of it in a nice bloody package. Doomsday is for me no less than one of the best post-apocalyptic movies ever, right after Mad Max 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.  But displaying such generosity has a drawback: some parts of the movie appear to have been less thought through than other, the best two universes being the diametrically opposed anarchy/cannibal urban setting and the medieval rural one, while the ending appears to be more rushed. But that didn't really spoil my pleasure as Doomsday is a totally assumed B-movie. One thing that disturbed me though is the music that I found sometime slightly inappropriate, at other times too present, or even completely spoiling the mood of the scene.
Rating: 7 /10