Doomsday [2008]
Director: Neil Marshall
Actor: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell, David O’Hara
What can I say about Doomsday? It’s British and it’s good, reminiscent of Dog Soldiers, but only in terms of Britishness and quality. It’s kind of what 28 Weeks Later should’ve been, but wasn’t, a post-apocalyptic urban jungle with Mad Maxian brutality.
Early 21st century a disease breaks out in Glasgow, Scotland and spreads rapidly across the Scottish peninsula. The old roman wall between Scotland and England is once again erected, only this time a lot higher. Scotland is isolated and the disease contained. Sort of. 2035 rolls around and the facist English government is confronted by a starting epidemic. They decide to send a team of military specialists and scientists over the wall. You see, for three years, orbital sattelites have been taking pictures of people in the streets of Glasgow, survivors where before there were none. The team under the leadership of Marjor Eden Sinclair (Mitra) is sent to Glasgow to find Kane (MacDowell), a scientist and arguably the person with the most knowledge of the disease before the quarantine. If Kane is still alive, it’s likely that he has figured out a cure. The team finds survivors, a lot of them, but all of them are Mad Maxian savages with a thirst for violence.
It’s a good, very well-produced movie. It’s not Oscar material, but it’s a solid one.
