Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Review: DOOM
Just when you thought that video-game-to-movie flicks were dead, here comes DOOM, starring The Rock as ‘Sarge,’ leading a group of futuristic marines to investigate what has gone wrong at a DNA mapping facility on Mars. It seems that all of the scientists have gone missing and no one is quite sure why. The Rock’s group of misfits travel to Mars to check things out and needless to say (if you are a fan of the video game) they encounter zombies and all kinds of other scary monsters. Slowly the soldiers realize that the monsters are the scientists, infected with a violent strain of altered DNA. This movie got trashed by most critics, but it was worth a few thrills (and kills). Towards the end, the movie switches to first person mode, where all we see is the gun and everything it is aiming at (a tribute to the video game).
GRADE: C (The Rock continues his box office bombs)
