Review of Doomsday (2008) by Kyle J — 20 Jan 2011

This was a lot better than I figured it would be. The ad campaign was a little false. I had thought I was getting a zombie movie, but instead got something of an oddity.

After a disease breaks out in Scotland, spreading too quickly and killing everyone who comes into contact with it, the government decides that the best course of action is to quarantine the area. And so, they build a gigantic wall around all of Scotland, leaving the infected within to die. The infection goes away, and people start going about their lives.

30 years later, there is another outbreak outside the wall. Sattelite photography shows that there are still survivors inside the wall, that means a possible cure. The doors are opened for an elite crew, and the search for the vaccine begins.

From then on out it's sort of like Lord of the Rings meets Mad Max. Heavy on the Mad Max. Two forces battle it out. A group of Punk rock cannibals, headed by Prdoigy's Keith Flint (no, not really) who beleive there is no one outside the walls. And a group of castle dwelling, midevil folk, headed by Malcolm Macdowell (yes, really him) who beleive there is nothing for them outside the walls and natural selection has chosen them to live, purged of their former lives. Neat.

None of that shit really matters though, there are lot's of limbs hacked off, buckets of blood, loads of car chases and some weird dance numbers. It entertains if you don't take it to seriously, and pays great homage to it's influences.