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Doom (2005)
A Doom Fan Extremely Disappointed....
OK....seeing as its David Callaham's first screenplay and story, I was willing to walk into the theater with a sort of "open mindedness". Although this movie is supposed to be entirely based off a game. There is definitely a large fan base that was brought up with this game, myself included. Therefore when the plot was dramatically changed from the game it was a huge disappointment and let down to me. One thing that really bugs me about "scary" movies these days is that there is no build up to the action. In this movie in particular there is hardly any in depth explanation to anything that is going on, its all sort of mentioned on the fly to patch the many holes in the plot. It sucks, and makes the characters/situations a whole lot less identifiable.
If you are looking to go see a movie based on the classic doom plot, this movie is way off and a waste of money. First off this movie primarily looked like DOOM 3, and honestly it did look great. Although I mainly didn't like the movie because the plot of DOOM 3 includes Hell. It seems that Callaham has absolutely no guts, rather than being slightly controversial and including this concept he decided to skirt around it by adding a ridiculous virus to the plot.
Another thing that bothered me about this film was the fact that it looked a ton like Resident Evil (the movie). They both kind of started off the same (people getting extremities caught in doors), and ended the same (elevator/tram out of the complex). There was also a lot of zombie shooting...I don't know...Doom really just went for cheap thrills. Oh I almost forgot the Marines that were supposed to be an elite fighting force seem like a bunch of random dudes with guns. This cast really does not make me believe at all that these characters are Marines.
Well, the novelty of this film died when the first zombie did...It's kind of tragic though because this movie had a ton of potential, next time let any random DOOM fan write the script, most likely it will turn out better.
If you still want to see it, please SAVE MONEY and RENT IT...you'll see what I'm talking about.