Synopsis
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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Cast
- Rhona MitraEden Sinclair
- Bob HoskinsBill Nelson
- Adrian LesterSergeant Norton
- Alexander SiddigPrime Minister John Hatcher
- David O'HaraMichael Canaris
- Malcolm McDowellDr. Marcus Kane
- Sean PertweeDr. Talbot
- MyAnna BuringCally Kane
- Emma CleasbyKatherine Sinclair
- Caryn PetersonVagrant Girl
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
Marshall reveals himself to be a terrific showman of chaos and comic savagery. This is Baz Luhrmann's "Mad Max." - 70
Variety
Neil Marshall's flair for visceral action more than compensates for his script's lack of conceptual novelty in Doomsday. Principally South Africa-shot tale of a post-apocalyptic Great Britain cobbles together large chunks of "Escape From New York," "The Road Warrior," "28 Days Later" and "Resident Evil," but those with a taste for revved-up, splattery fantasy thrills won't be complaining. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Marshall delivers what he promises and Mitri makes for a cool, kick-arse heroine in the Ellen Ripley mold. - 58
The A.V. Club
Marshall’s fixation on John Carpenter and early James Cameron is all too apparent, but his own distinctive cinematic style isn’t, making Doomsday a likeably rambling but generic shoot-’em-up. - 50
ReelViews
Doomsday tries to cram so much into its limited 105 minutes that aspects end up feeling rushed and confused (especially the political situation in England) and the ending is perfunctory. - 50
Film Threat
As a guilty pleasure, it’s spectacularly entertaining - 50
Los Angeles Times
Just to shake things up a little, I guess, the creators of the laughably over-the-top Doomsday thought it might be fun to turn the survivors of a deadly epidemic, rather than its victims, into maniacal murderers. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Mitra, clad in the requisite tight, sexy outfits, conveys a suitable toughness but little in the way of personality, while such distinguished British actors as Bob Hoskins and Adrian Lester dutifully show up to collect their paychecks.
