Doom

DOOM offers more than a cheap ALIENS knockoff. But not much more. Rock's natural charisma is not permitted to shine at all with this script. The first half of the film lulls you to sleep. The 'twist' three-forths through and the... Full review

Despite the accurate first-person sequence and overall set design, the filmmakers don't remain true to the source material. In the game, a dimensional portal to Hell itself is opened, allowing hordes of demons and imps to overrun the facility. But that... Full review

Nearly fell asleep watching it. Nothing there to grip you to your seat.Has a bad plot. I predicted the outcome like half an hour into the movie even though I have never played the game before. A bad movie.... Full review

Sorry to say I ignored the initial reviews and went out to see this movie. I soon figured out that there was absoutly no plot and that the movie was nothing at all like the initial computer game. Being someone whose... Full review

Wow this movie rocks. It has all the violence and gore of the doom game plus a little bit o comedy thrown in there. The best part of the movie is the monsters they looked real not like some cheesy thing.... Full review

Doom was horrible. I have waited years to see this film adapted to the screen. It was so dissapointing to sit through this murder of a franchise. It was terrible. Where was hell in all this. The story for doom revolves... Full review

There are certain genres that are despised no matter what. The genre of movies based on video games is one of those and rightfully so. There have been a large amount pretty awful video game adaptations of such games as... Full review

*Warning* This review contains mild spoilers to the GAME, but not the movie.A dig in the nevada desert have found a portal to an ancient city on mars. Since then, scientists have struggled 20 years to find out more about... Full review

I, unlike other people, did not find this movie to be a disappointment. I didn't go into this movie with high expectations. A movie based on a video game will never have an amazing story, or exceptionally good acting worth... Full review

This movie should have been the "Aliens" of the 21st century. The Phobos base should have appeared dank and deserted, save the occasional body. The atmosphere should have built to an unbearable, silent tension. Then, and only then, the hideous... Full review

Doom is a really good action flick.....Based on the popular computer game, Doom is by far the best video game-based movie ever.....There are plenty of purposeful comedy bits to keep things light enough.... ... Full Review

It's got a lot of what made "Doom" great. For some, "Doom" may well be the best videogame adaptation ever made. On video, however, the film does bode much better. Needless to say, "Doom This version of "Doom" is not the "Doom" they know and love. ... Full Review

Now, the game "Doom" and its sequels were always shy on plot, tending to focus more on gore, special effects and outrageously powerful weapons for its players. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak's "Doom," based on id Software's mega-selling game, attempts to buck the trend-and almost makes it-with an ambitious, austere adaptation. ... Full Review

I like this nod to the videogames, but it doesn't make for very good filmmaking. The flick garnered a miserable 19 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and I can't recall anything positive related to it. ... Full Review

Joining the fate of other less than stellar video game to screen adaptations, Doom is a predictable "kill everything that moves" kind of film that starts out halfway good and quickly goes downhill after the first 45 minutes of "plot" runs out of gas. ... Full Review

Posted by Stephen Totilo on 3/13/09 at 11:10 am. "We are an example of trying and failing" - Dwayne Johnson to MTV News on the topic of getting video game movies right. ... Full Article

The batting average of videogame-to-film adaptations is not great, and there was little about this one to make us expect it would be anything more than the usual mess of noisy stupidity (guns, monsters, explosions). ... Full Article

Who's in It: The Rock, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike The Basics: Marines chase and get chased by monsters in outer space.Seen Aliens ?It's like that, only not as good. ... Full Article

The miserable failure of 'Doom' apparently didn't pull back the video game developer, id Software, to spawn some thoughts for sequel development. The 2005 video game adaptation " Doom " did not only fail miserably on its ticket selling with... ... Full Article

All you gamers who thought Doom was going to rock as a movie, I am sorry to report back that it was about as entertaining as anything with Paris Hilton in it (with exception to a grainy night vision movie... ... Full Article

Director Andrzej Bartkowiak shows commendable restraint in keeping the monsters offscreen long enough to give us a passing acquaintance with his musclebound gang of sterotypes. ... Full Article