joshua-c-s-63903
The last 15 minutes or so of this movie where the camera turns to first-person and Karl Urban and The Rock randomly start fighting is right about where this movie goes downhill for me. I mean I still don't understand why The Rock's character all of a sudden wants to kill John Grimm (Karl Urban) before he's even turned into a monster, or that the previous guy to get bit on his neck was near-death before eventually dying and the Rock appears perfectly fine. Nonetheless, the rest of the movie for me was quite entertaining. The tension that builds as you anticipate the next attack by the monsters, and the enjoyment me and my brother had putting bets on who would die next only made this experience better. Overall, if you can try to look past the absurdity of the last 15 minutes and you like a good ole' fashioned pick 'em off movie like I do then give it a shot. Also, I recommend watching it with someone and betting which character dies next and where. Trust me it's fun.
uluosman
This movie must be rated at least nine out of ten since the cast is well- suited for an action film, the plot is coherent and bears resemblance to the original game and acting is , in contrast to what other critics say, is actually awesome. The psychological and physical struggle between The Rock and Urban is well told throughout the movie, thus the climax is their final fight. Overall, a good plot and characters make a good sci-fi action adventure movie. This film is definitely worth watching twice.
Sam Snyder (samuelsnyder-33369)
OK, let me explain. This movie is the best video game movie ever made. Not because it's good, but because you will laugh your ass off at at this movie. It tries hard at points to be a gritty version of the DOOM games, like DOOM 3, but it also gets the fun tone of DOOM 1 and 2, and it uses that in some scenes too. the Rock is in this film, WHY?!?!?!?!? He makes this film just a joy to watch. Watch this film if you just want to have a fun 2 hours
dvts
This film pulls off the neat trick of ripping off like 4 different Aliens movies at once. It's a feat of screen writing. It's good fun for a long time, nonetheless. The casting is rather good, I've never liked Urban as much in anything else as I did in this. Rosamund Pike is great as always. And great credit for casting The Rock in a bad guy role. Dwayne Johnson is much better-suited to be playing menacing heavies like this than his usual stuff. He started out as a heel in wrestling for a good reason. Anyway it's well-made, by the numbers kind of stuff. It includes a 'revelation' of something the audience had figured out literally a half hour prior. Bad writing there. But it doesn't connect the twins' parents' death to the current plot - which is good writing and shows restraint. The monsters were OK. Nothing special. The rules of the hunt weren't really established - movie didn't quite play fair. Monsters would seemingly reappear out of nowhere when needed, when realistically, 3 or 4 giant monsters rampaging around would make a lot of noise and be hard to miss. There's a rather brilliant bit late. Urban has just 'evolved' via the injection. The film suddenly wakes up, as he wakes up, and suddenly we're seeing a hyper-kinetic film version of a first-person shooter game. Stylistically this works in two ways at once, showing how he sees now with heightened awareness and intelligence and ability, while also doing the cool homage to the game.Unfortunately, following this wonderful scene, we get a horrible endless drawn out terrible tedious not interesting at all knock down drag out between Urban and the Rock, both enhanced. This damn scene just refuses to end. There's literally no tension or interest whatsoever, the thing isn't filmed interestingly, or choreographed interestingly - we know who's going to win, and Pike's character has already been safely seen away, meaning there's nothing at stake in the scene and no risk to anybody. It's just bad. It's a slog. A huge comedown after the amazing rush of the first-person shooter sequence.But all in all, not a bad movie. As a fan of such stuff (monster movies, sci-fi action films, etc) I enjoyed it. No regrets.
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