If you're hungry, have a piece of your friend.
Doomsday
By Menreet Kaur
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Adrian Lester
Official website: http://www.doomsdayiscoming.com
You know it's a sad day in Hollywood when flicks like Doomsday manages to make it through the clutter and surface to the big screen.
The concept is all too familiar. Take Will Smith's I Am Legend (done with immaculate taste, I must say) coupled with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 28 Weeks Later and Doomsday becomes the cheap knock off.
Set in the United Kingdom, Scotland, was the threshold R.I.P center of? victims who were infected with the viral, "Reaper Virus". Thirty years later, its back ya'll! This time, to London.
Hoping to find a cure, Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) and her team were summoned to venture into the forsaken land. They were not expected to return back to London without any concrete findings.
From then on, the randomness of which characters/tools were introduced is as good as me singing "Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's Greatest Love Machine" now.
From pierced Goths slum dwellers to 16th century medieval castle folk. From the availability of Bentleys to the most technologically advanced hand phones. We're talking about life in the 70s here. Where hippie culture was rife and there was an abundance of tie-dyed vibrant clothing. How it got boiled down to Goths and Medieval folk does not make any logical coherent sense.
Also, in terms of eating habits, humans seemed to be the main staple. Gross, uncensored scenes of our fellow man being cooked alive, was portrayed as a norm. Maybe they didn't know that their neighborhood supermarket has got food stocked up for a good fifty years. Another possible reason was that they didn't bother to travel further out - coz if they did, they'd have aplenty of beef steaks to munch down.
But no, they were busy tying skeletons to their Harley Davidsons, spiking up their hair, drawing on their bodies or piling on the metal guards.
Doomsday is so entertainingly thrilling that it could just pass off as a spoof. Rather than screaming, the audience were left sniggering and laughing at scenes that were meant to be "gory". It's so extremely bad that it makes it too good to miss!
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