Review of Doomsday (2008) by Matt Zoller Seitz for New York Times — 16 Mar 2008
In terms of story, “The Descent” and Doomsday are as different as two genre films can be, but the falloff in artistic quality is still quantifiable. Where “The Descent” was a slow, quiet, exquisitely modulated, startlingly original film, Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn’t so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up.
Homage without innovation isn’t homage, it’s karaoke.
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This review of Doomsday (2008) was written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by New York Times on 16 Mar 2008.
Doomsday has generally received mixed reviews.
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