Review of Doomsday (2008) by Morgank. — 16 Mar 2008

While tonally very different from Marshall's critically-loved The Descent, this bears a good bit of the humor and the loving embrace of all things cool that Dog Soldiers exhibited, albeit on a much larger, extravagant scale.

It's pretty clear that this wasn't shown to critics less because the studio thought it was a dud, and more because they aren't the audience for a movie like this - it's a giddy lovefest for both the director and genre fans to share and, really, if you can't appreciate the sheer joy this movie has plowing through apocalyptic punk, D&D fantasy, and unabashed irony-free late-70s/early-80s action then you simply came to the wrong film.

Doomsday manages to provide the same level of kitschy badass that Tarantino/Rodriguez's Grindhouse did last year, except without all the film-school hipster winking-at-the-audience with fake lost-reels and digital film grain - it's an adoring collage that does exactly what it's designed to do.