Doomsday 2008

Mankind has an expiration date.

5.961 / 10   1230 vote(s)
R
Action Thriller Science Fiction

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Release Date 2008-03-14
Runtime 1h 48m
Directors Neil Marshall, Sam McCurdy, Julia Dehoff, Gurel Mehmet, Melloney Cunnell, Steve Carter, Jack Ravenscroft, Dale Butler, Jacques Terblanche, Marci Trout, Emily Hobbs, Marc Wolff, Jason Xenopoulos, Raymond Kirk, Giulio Biccari, Peter Field
Producers Benedict Carver, Steven Paul, Sarah Hemsley, Clare Tinsley, Jeff Abberley, Trevor Macy, Marc D. Evans, Julia Blackman, Peter McAleese, Carole Sheridan
Writer Neil Marshall

Basically a mash-up of 28 Days Later, Mad Max, generic medieval film and Michael Bay rolled into one (not to mention The Warriors and Escape from New York). A bit all over the place but I generally enjoyed the insanity of it all and liked Rhona Mitra as the lead, too bad her career really didn't take off, though I suppose opportunities for action roles for women was limited. 3.5/5

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