DOOM(2005)
This movie, which was based on a game, stars
The Rock and several other dudes and dudettes!
Not too bad, but very predictable. A cross between
action/adventure/sci-fi/horror! B-
A review from Amazon.com:
Grab your BFG and get ready to kick some Martian-demon
butt in Doom, another entry in the increasingly crowded
videogame-to-movie genre. The Rock plays Sarge, the
commander of a squad of Marines sent to investigate a
disturbance at a scientific research facility on Mars.
Among the squad is John Grimm (Karl Urban, who played
Eomer in The Lord of the Rings), who turns out to have
had a previous relationship with Samantha(Rosamund Pike,
Die Another Day), the scientist who's accompanying the
Marines in order to retrieve some vital data from the
facility. Based on id Software's legendary first-person
shooter, Doom tries its best to look like a game, with
dark, angled corridors, ferocious creatures appearing
out of nowhere, and a variety of lethal weapons that
will, like the aforementioned BFG, warm the cockles
of a gamer's heart. There's also one memorable sequence
that actually turns the movie into a first-person
shooter; the good news is that in the context of the
whole film, it's not quite as goofy as it might have
been. And that's not a bad frame of reference for the
film in general. Considering the game-to-movie field
includes such duds as Wing Commander, if you go into
Doom with low expectations, you'll probably find it
a surprisingly respectable horror/sci-fi thriller in
the Resident Evil vein (including its somewhat
obligatory subplot of corporate wrongdoing). Also
in its favor is that it's unabashedly R-rated, for
the extreme gore that is a trademark of the game.
After all, the purpose of the movie is to pack
scares and thrills into a setting that gamers will
quickly recognize. In that sense, it qualifies as
a success. --David Horiuchi