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63For a big-screen disposable, Doom has a few jolts, a few good laughs and an attractive female lead to whom you want to say, "What's a nice girl like you doing on a Mars like this?"
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60It's really not all that bad. Ultra-derivative bigscreen transplant of one of the most successful (and controversial) games ever made plays like a mutant cross between a biotech thriller and a zombie movie, with all the alien autopsies, blood-gushing protuberances and meaningless scientific jargon that come with the territory.
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By hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game.
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58Doom may be by the numbers, with a roll call of colorful types systematically exterminated while The Rock entertains with cartoonish expressions and reactions (the closest the film comes to personality).
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Plot, character development and dialogue are so sparse that the screenwriters are fortunate they're not paid by the word. But this basic approach doesn't render it ineffectual. There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault.
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50Doom, the film, aspires to be more than just a gory shoot em' up--though it'd still be a stretch to call it a thinking man's action movie.
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50Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible.
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50If he (The Rock) can keep those wandering eyebrows in check, his future as an action hero appears unlimited--that is, provided he can resist taking roles in movies like this one.
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As dumb as they come, the entertaining Doom might warrant a place in cinema history as the first movie in which someone rips off their own ear.
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50The movie ultimately cops out by culminating in a fistfight between two humans, with nary a cyborg missile-throwing devil in sight.
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The Rock's ungainly performance is somewhat alleviated by Karl Urban as a crew member and Rosamund Pike as his twin sister.
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42Beyond a couple of cool guns and one long, gory, clever first-person shot, Doom is something the video games have never been: dull.
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40Doesn't break any new ground – it actually steals from half a dozen other sci-fi movies – but it'll make enough at the box office to justify further game flicks.
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40Not quite as dreadful as Resident Evil: Apocalypse, but that's hardly a major achievement.
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38Basically a deadly dull rehash of "Resident Evil," which in turn was a third-generation clone of "Aliens."
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38Like Doom itself, the movie is rich in backstory, but sparse in actual story.
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38We don't need a discussion of plot in a review of a movie made from a video game, do we? Nor do we care whether the characters are complicated (no), the acting is sophisticated (no), the direction is competent (no) or the camerawork is clever (no).
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33The latest failed Hollywood attempt to make a movie from a video game.
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30Go for the gore (there's lots of it), but stay for the immortal line: "Now let's go find the body this arm belongs to."
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30Baffling too is The Rock's choice to follow up his acclaimed performance in "Be Cool" with a role that requires him to do little more than widen his eyes and grunt lines.
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30Shows less human dimension than the new Wallace and Gromit movie.
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30A loud, standard-issue sci-fi action film that has a confusing mission.
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25Watching Doom is like visiting Vegas and never leaving your hotel room.
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25Even The Rock, who can usually be counted on to enliven any scenario, seems bored by the laughably feeble script.
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25Doom is, to its detriment, a remarkably faithful re-creation of the massively popular video game. In other words, it's a dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.
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25Like most movies based on games, this film appears to have been quite literally doomed from the start.
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25A dreadful, hackneyed piece of cinema.
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20This claustrophobic mess of a movie offers only carnage.
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