First, and there's no real way to get around this, the acting is terrible. There are lots of problems with this movie. Sarge, played by the Rock, leads the unit and they soon are shooting everything from zombie scientists to all manner of ugly beasties. A group of marines are soon sent to the base to discover what happened to the scientists. Unfortunately the scientists are conducting genetic experiments and surprise surprise, something goes wrong. The government has set up a research base on Mars supposedly to examine Martian relics and their lost civilization.
This movie is based in the future and a portal has been discovered leading from Earth to Mars. There's nothing to approach this level of panache in the rest of the film, which is essentially a second rate Aliens knock-off. Towards the end of the film, the camera assumes the classic first person viewpoint of the game, in an extended sequence that's both a nod to fans and a genuinely inventive suspense device. Well, science and The Rock, manfully controlling his eyebrows in a rare villainous role. The original Doom's spooky occult trappings have been dispensed with science is the bad guy here. Character development thus dealt with, the movie turns into a meat grinder as the soldiers meet their blood-soaked doom at the hands of mutated genetic beasties. There's even a girl scientist, played by Rosamund Pike, who gets the really cherishable stupid lines ("I'm a forensic anthropolog ist - I go where the work is," she tells Karl Urban's brooding hero). The marines have names like Sarge, Reaper, Destroyer and Bite Off My Head You Alien Scum.ĭirector Andrzej Bartkowiak shows commendable restraint in keeping the monsters offscreen long enough to give us a passing acquaintance with his musclebound gang of sterotypes. Loosely based on ID software's genre-defining shoot-em-up (which itself owes a heavy debt to The Evil Dead) the film follows a troop of factory-finished badass marines on a trip to Mars, where angry monsters are playing skiprope with the intestines of a luckless scientific research team. Doom is the best videogame-to-movie adaptation ever made, but that's not saying much.
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