Doomsday

After the excellent Dog Soldiers and the sublime Descent Neil Marshall has shot himself in the foot with Doomsday. This self inflicted wound is the kind that a German soldier would be executed out of hand for. There is no escape from the front for Marshall this time as Doomsday is just plain dreadful.
Marshall has obviously been given a fair budget this time round but has squandered it on effects rather than a tight script with well written characters that have been the hallmark of his previous films. Too many underwritten parts clog up the screen appearing and disappearing as if by magic; more likely butchered in the editing process to get the film running at a respectable length. At one point near the end Hoskins turns up in Scotland without any plausable reason other than to deliver a couple of lines of atrocious dialogue.
All that could be forgiven if Doomsday delivered on it's promise of extreme action and violence. Sadly the action is lightweight as we don't care… more »

After the excellent Dog Soldiers and the sublime Descent Neil Marshall has shot himself in the foot with Doomsday. This self inflicted wound is the kind that a German soldier would be executed out of hand for. There is no escape from the front for Marshall this time as Doomsday is just plain dreadful.
Marshall has obviously been given a fair budget this time round but has squandered it on effects rather than a tight script with well written characters that have been the hallmark of his previous films. Too many underwritten parts clog up the screen appearing and disappearing as if by magic; more likely butchered in the editing process to get the film running at a respectable length. At one point near the end Hoskins turns up in Scotland without any plausable reason other than to deliver a couple of lines of atrocious dialogue.
All that could be forgiven if Doomsday delivered on it's promise of extreme action and violence. Sadly the action is lightweight as we don't care about the characters enough rendering the considerable gore pointless and just unpleasent at times.
To make matters worse Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror was effortless in its amalgamation of 80s post apocalyptic movies whereas Doomsday is so completly obvious in what it has stolen from the genre that Marshall should have included a check list and pen.