Yet another poor attempt, to bring a video game to film. Doom starts off with the typical things go very wrong in a lab so its time to call in the marines flick. To begin the story has no plot though you cant be to critical because the game lacked in plot as well. What the video game Doom did bring you was a chance to blow alien and daemons away.
The lost civilization had an extra chromosome which turned some of them into superheroes and others into super killers. As Sarge, The Rock leads a small group of �tough� marines to investigate a level five breach -- that's a lot worse than a level 4 breach, I'm sure. After sealing off a place called The Ark, where questionable experiments have been taking place, Sarge leads his men, dressed fashionably in black with big black guns to match the rest of their wardrobe, to battle some unknown bogeymen.
The Crack team of Marines that are called in and I mean crack literally are, a mixture of drug using, uncouth, and not all that tough or trained group. One of the marines is a mentally unbalanced Jesus freak, another is a horney drug user, one of them looks like the host of blues clues,(also a drug user) and a few other losers to add to the group that don�t put up much of a fight. ( you actually quit caring about the marines in the movie)
I could put up with the fact that the movie has a poor storyline Aliens Vs predator had a crap story line but the movie was still at least watch able, Doom is supposed to be a suspense action movie, but the director ( who also did cradle to the grave I may add) dose a piss poor job of making it suspenseful. The first marine to die, basically looks around the corner were he is clawed and killed without putting up a fight. The second marine to die, shows him standing then suddenly he is decapitated. No small hunt first, or hearing strange noised that leads to his demise, just a strait up butt pillage that leaves him headless.
In fact, the only inspired bit of business in "Doom" is the one sequence that defeats the purpose of making a feature film in the first place, Doom stages a five minute FPS sequence toward the end of the movie, with Reaper (in God mode ) fighting his way through the lab's hallways, shooting through zombies, blowing up monsters, and chain-sawing beasties. A much needed jolt to wake up the fans of the game , with a direct homage to the FPS, it does successfully achieve some much needed carnage, but it also stops the movie dead, and should remind the viewer (yet again) that playing the actual game is much more fun than seeing a terrible movie version of it. There is a terrible sequence in the FPS part of the movie were some of the extra chromosome monsters are laughing at Reaper or more like laughing at me for spending the cash to watch this flick.
Doom gets a 1 of 5