Doom.

I don't know what it is about me, and video game tie ins they are usually crap (apart from Mortal Kombat- that rocked in a crap way) but I I still sit down to watch them. Maybe it's because of the familiar source material, maybe I want to be proved wrong, or more often or not it's because A can't find the remote control.

I don't know what it is about me and video game tie ins they are usually crap (apart form Mortal Kombat- that rocked in a crap way) but A still sit down to watch them. Maybe it's because of the familiar source material, maybe I want to be proved wrong, or more often or not it's because A can't find the remote control.

Doom is a film based on  a ground breaking first person shooter, where they gamer gets drawn into a fight against hell, with a variety of hellish inhabitants, and a number of stupidly big guns over a vast array of blood soaked levels

The film is based on Doom III, and in an attempt to make it even more 'hard' they've moved hell to mars. I was hoping they move it to Hartlepool, but no one would notice the difference.

The story follows a squad of marines involved in a clean up of a containment operation on a science station on mars. The rag tag squad led by the Sarge (played by the Rock) and his second in command john Grimm (the equally charismatic Karl Urban of LOTR fame and Bourne supremacy infamy) support an otherwise a-typical supporting cast of squad members (the new kid, the slimey one, the religious nut... you know the score by now)

The writer tries to add a bit more variety to the mix, by introducing civilian characters, pinky (played by press gangs Dexter Fletcher) whose primary role seems to be to explain everything to the uninitiated in the audience. Grimm’s estranged sister (played by someone whose name alludes me) in an attempt to add a bit of emotional depth to what is otherwise a standard action shooter movie.

However it does contain some scenes that the acne ridden single geeks will cream at whilst the rest of us cringe. The truly awful (it was that bad I had to change channel) the first person bit, I can only imagine how bad it looked on the big screen.

But for all its attempts to make it stand out, that ultimately fail, the Rock and Urbans performances are solid and fit within the action genre.

I think that it would have been better if it wasn't trying to be something greater than the sum of it's parts and would have been better received if it had of been release in 1988.

A harmless, though uninspiring waste of time