If you have ever played Doom then you will probably find the film very disappointing, if not then you may get some enjoyment out of the it. Either way there is no doubting that the film is still below average.

Doom sees Dwight 'The Rock' Johnson as a marine commander and his troops investigating strange goings on with a space station on......Mars. Changing the premise of the original game, which took place on earth and had you battling the minions of hell in their various guises, drastically affects the story and apart from a couple of aesthetics Doom fans will find little that will look even similar to the game and may struggle to come to terms with the changes. The only thing that is similar is the inclusion of the BFG 9000 (you know what that stands for) and a 3 minute first person shoot em up style camera towards the end of the film which, although being very entertaining and giving fans a little of what they want, it all seems to come a little too late.

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If you have ever played Doom then you will probably find the film very disappointing, if not then you may get some enjoyment out of the it. Either way there is no doubting that the film is still below average.

Doom sees Dwight 'The Rock' Johnson as a marine commander and his troops investigating strange goings on with a space station on......Mars. Changing the premise of the original game, which took place on earth and had you battling the minions of hell in their various guises, drastically affects the story and apart from a couple of aesthetics Doom fans will find little that will look even similar to the game and may struggle to come to terms with the changes. The only thing that is similar is the inclusion of the BFG 9000 (you know what that stands for) and a 3 minute first person shoot em up style camera towards the end of the film which, although being very entertaining and giving fans a little of what they want, it all seems to come a little too late.

This is its biggest down fall as a good conversation of this game would have made it a lot more popular and a lot better as the story is already well established. It is yet again another case of a poor conversation from a classic game. As a film itself there are a couple of moments that do excite, especially for Sci-Fi fans such as the virtual walls and how they get to Mars in the first place. But whilst the special effects do impress there is still one big thing that this film doesn't have and it was probably the most intrinsic element of the game, fear. Whilst playing Doom you feared what was around the next corner, especially when you could hear a door opening somewhere and not knowing what had been released or where it was. Places where you had previously cleared would become re-infected with hells minions and you could never rest on your laurels. This coupled with some very disturbing level designs, images and sound effects as well of moments of being in almost total darkness really built up a tremendous amount of tension and dread. The film quite simply has none of those moments and so in this area the audience, and Doom fans in particular, are let down badly. In this respect the director and script writers should really have at least played the game and focused on those key elements as it looks like they have just stolen the name and thought of their own ideas.

This also feels very similar to John Carpenters Ghost of Mars not only because of the setting but the fact that both films showed a lot of promise but just didn't deliver on any of the essential ingredients that they tried to add in and, more importantly, it has left fans extremely frustrated with a film that bears little resemblance to their favourite game. I would love to see this film done again properly and stick to the story as I think it would be a really great film.