dakjets Encouraged by the reviews here, I gave this movie a chance a late tv night. I love all the Aliens films, and thought that something good is going on here. But unfortunately no way. This was very bad. Very thin story, and with so-called monsters more or less absent. A lot of shouting and hiding but no content. And if such a movie works, it must actually be both exciting and creepy. This one are none of the parts. Steer away.

Sam Panico Andrzej Bartkowiak has been the cinematographer on three films that were nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment and Prizzi's Honor. But he may be better known for his films that combined hip-hop and action, like Cradle 2 the Grave, Exit Wounds and Romeo Must Die. He's also been behind two video game films: Doom and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.That said, Time selected this as one of the top 10 worst video game movies, along with House of the Dead, Wing Commander, In the Name of the King, Hitman, BloodRayne, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Double Dragon, Street Fighter and Super Mario Brothers. Trust me -- it's not that bad. And films like this (and a few others on the list) don't belong in the same wastebin as Uwe Boll films.After a Mars research station is attacked, Dr. Todd Carmack sends a distress call that is answered by a team of Marines, led by Asher "Sarge" Mahonin (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban, Dredd) and his sister, Dr. Samantha (Rosamund Pike, star of Becca's go to DVD, Gone Girl) are there to retrieve critical info before the base is destroyed. We learn that they were born on Mars and their parents were killed here. All that remained after their accident were skeletons of genetically enhanced humans.Of course, all hell breaks loose -- literally. Demonic monsters attack, The Rock ends up being the bad guy, innocent people get killed, a long first-person sequence happens and there's plenty of action. Seriously, the movie is short on story and long on special effects and gore. It's like an Alien movie without the xenomorphs, I guess. Or much excitement. It's competently made, but an hour after it was over and I started writing this, all I could remember that I enjoyed was that the Rock played against his usual character and that Karl Urban got to be the hero.

undeaddt I was very dissapointed when I saw the movie. It is one big disgrace to the Doom games which are legendary in the gaming community. Maybe I am talking this way because I don't like Dwayne Johnson, but I know what Doom was all about.. and this movie isn't. Feels unfinished, looks unfinished, bad acting.. all summed up 4/10

Tominatorxx First of all, I kinda like this film for what it is: an action/horror movie. But I have no idea why the DOOM name is attached to it. As a big fan of the games I can safely say there is not much in this film that is faithful to its source material. Now there are similarities between this film and the DOOM games (as you would expect) but there are also many things that are completely different from the games.So the film is set on Mars like one part of the games is (the other being Hell which I will come back to later in this review) in a facility where all hell broke loose (pun intended). A special team of highly trained soldiers is sent there to investigate and to terminate the threat.Now this is already the first big difference. DOOM games are well known for having a nameless character starring as the protagonist. We all refer to him as our beloved Doomguy. Now do I think the director made a mistake by not following the game in that aspect? Not really to be honest. It would be almost impossible to make a film in which the protagonist doesn't say a word. You could ask yourself: "Then why would you make a film based on a game like DOOM?". And to be honest I don't know why you would.But I have to say that the idea of soldiers sent in by UAC is possibly the best they could come up with. At least that way you can have conversations in your film.Now back to the story. Without spoiling everything. The reason why these monstrosities are causing havoc has something to do with chromosome science. They want to create superhumans by adding 1 chromosome to people. Turns out the test subjects (criminals) become monsters after they get injected with the 24th chromosome. The reason? I'm not going to spoil that. But honestly it is basically pure nonsense.The people who read the previous paragraph and played the DOOM games will immediately notice something... Where are the demons from hell? Well they aren't in the film, in fact they never go to hell either. I know... a DOOM film without demons from hell... is not a real DOOM film in my opinion.What is in the film though is the BFG (though for some reason it shoots blue energy instead of green plasma).If you read this review up to this part, you might as well be reading a review about a film adaptation of Resident Evil. Monsters and zombies created by questionable science projects, a team of trained operatives which is send to investigate. Only differences are: we are in a science facility on Mars instead of a creepy mansion. Characters can even get infected by the monsters in the movie. In the games the monsters from hell just kill you. That's it. Onto the good things about this film then. Most of the characters are enjoyable to watch, the acting is good, the atmosphere is very well done (very DOOM 3 like), the special effects are pretty good for a 2005 film and the soundtrack is very good as well. And I should of course also mention the FPS section of the film, which is really well done. It's quite impressive actually, if you consider that the film came out in 2005. Nowadays it's easy with GOPRO cameras but back then it must have been really hard to pull off.All in all I have to say that I enjoyed the film. Mostly because of its atmosphere and not because it's a good DOOM film. In fact if I would rate it purely on the basis of it being faithful to DOOM, I would probably give it a 3 out of 10.But if you watch this film and can look at it as an original idea that isn't based on a certain game, then I think you might like it for what it is. Me personally, I'm kind of torn between giving it a 5 or a 6 out of 10. It's an okay film. I'll probably give it a 6 just because that FPS section was really well done and the atmosphere was definitely good as well.Don't expect anything great from this film. It's pure popcorn entertainment. And it's pretty good popcorn entertainment.