Doom [2005]
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Actor: The Rock, Karl Urban
It’s twenty years into the future, and a strange portal has been found in the Nevada desert that can teleport people to a strange base on Mars. The base seemed to have been once inhabited by a people that resemble human very closely. It’s an archaelogical site that’s continuously being excavated in order to find out more information about these ancient people, their technology and their customs. It’s also a science laboratory where experiments are done, mostly environmental.
These ancient people resembled humans very closely, but the younger ones they excavated have an extra chromosome (24 instead of the normal 23 for humans), while the older ones only had 23, leading researchers to believe that the extra chromosome was artificially created by them. Insert a team of experts doing genetic experiments. Insert a bio-weaponry project. Insert test subjects getting out of control. Insert massacre. Insert a small squad of ass-stomping marines under the leadership of The Rock, sent in to clean the place out.
In itself the movie is pretty shit, but highly entertaining. The story of marines going in to investigate and clean a research facility has been done to death, and done first and best by Aliens, probably one of the best films of the last 2 decades. What is cool about this film, however, is how closely it resembles the (third and latest) game, maybe no in story, but definitely in atmosphere, weapons and action. There’s even a whole 10 minute scene in complete first person mode, excellently done, with a “BOOM…Headshot!” moment, and a chainsaw melee moment. It really can’t much better than this.
I was in the cinema, laughing out loud like a little kid, strangely reminded of my time watching XXX with Caz, Barb, Jes and Cash.
