Doom fails because it tries too hard to be something it's not, attempting to make a horror movie out of an action game. Sure enough, when it finally embraces its action roots it becomes something half-way decent, but by then it's too little, too late.
This review of Doom (2005) was written by Matti R on 22 Feb 2011.
Doom has generally received mixed reviews.
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