Doom

When I first heard that they were making a Doom movie my first thought was "Oh great, I wonder how they're going to fuck this up." My second thought was "Its probably going to be about genetic engineering." My third thought was "I need to pee."

Shares a name with the video game, shares a few terms and weapons, shares characters. Is not DOOM.

Doom was about demons overrunning a scientific outpost on Mars (and later Earth), Doom the Movie decides to pander to the audience of the early 2000's and throw the actual plot of the game in the bin in order to make a story about genetic hybrids.

God, it's been done! And not very well I might add (admittedly 28 Days Later loosely involved gene splicing as the initial catalyst for the disaster that followed, and it was a good film).

However The Rock once again proves that he can in fact act (apart from one scene which was a total mess on all parts) and does manage to save a bit of face for the show, and the innovative first person sequence was enjoyable but I can see why they decided not to do it for the whole film.

There were some nice tongue in cheek references to the game heritage, such as the Pinky Demon and Sarge (The Rock) saying the actual real world meaning of the 'BFG' abbreviation.

The action isn't bad and the 'silvery blue eyes in the otherwise black sewer' scene is creepy as fuck, so as an action movie along the Predator lines Doom fares quite well, you just have to forget that it is supposed to be about Hell crossing over.

In this case it's more like Hell freezing over.

Rating: C