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I feel like this is a good movie, it has flaws but it's not as horrible as some make it out to be. All I want to talk about is what I like, what I hated, and how it lives up to the game.
Plot:
If you don't know what the movie is about i'll fill you in; at a research facility on Mars some scientists are attacked so several "Space Marines" are deployed to help locate all scientists and recover important research files. Little do they know these monsters and their "disease" have more to them than what meets the eye and the researchers haven't exactly been doing "clean" research.
What I like:
Doom has an easy to follow plot and lots of action scenes, some more cheesy than others, but in general all action scenes were well choreographed. Each character has their own unique personality and you gain a feeling of "I hope he's okay" or "He's better off dead" for each, this is a characteristic of a good movie. Actors do a good job for the most part in this movie, every scene feels realistic enough to make you believe that this really happene... ha ha just kidding. The monsters look really good in this movie and don't look to horribly fake.
What I hate:
I'd like to get this first thing right off my chest: I hate Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson being the antagonist. I just can't picture The Rock being the bad guy instead of acting evil he just acts like a total douche to everybody. I mean he fires guns at innocent civilians, sure that's evil, but, it just doesn't work for him. Also I hate how long the first-person shooting scene goes on for, it's a little gimmicky fun for the first 10 or 15 seconds but after it drags on for feels like a million minutes (excuse my gross exaggeration) it's like: "Come on already, this is getting weird." Also one character accidentally takes the lord's name in vain so like all Christians do, he apologizes and slits his wrist a little... WHAT?!? And then to top it all off, this "Freaky weird cuts himself guy" plot is never explored upon for the rest of the movie.
How it lives up to the game:
Well here's what made the movie fall apart. The plot of the movie loosely follows the game for example: In the game your character was sent to the Mars base as a punishment for assaulting his commanding officer when the officer ordered his troop to fire on civilians. While at what seems to be the most boring job imaginable things go horribly wrong with some experiments and "something fragging evil" comes in through a gateway and infects or kills all scientists. In the movie Karl Urban is part of a team that is called in to help after some scientists are attacked by demonic creatures in a base on Mars. The whole movie has tons of little plots that include: All of the scientists were performing gene mutations on people that wasn't allowed on earth, Karl Urban and his sister in the movie have been mining on the planet since they were kids and their parents were killed there, and the list goes on. The movie is also faithful however, it brings up the BFG-9000 and even has an okay first-person shooter scene but besides that... eh.
Overall it's okay, not horrible, but nothing special. if you love the games this movie would definitely make you happy, but to the common movie goer, it's a little cheesy.
5/10
