Game and Movie spoiler, read on if your fine with that…

For the most part the movie really kicked some ass.  The gore was almost at the level as the recent game (DOOM III For Xbox) and the storyline was fairly accurate as well.  About ¾ of the way through the movie they even switched to a HUD (Heads Up Display) view, just like in the game.  So you really get a feeling of how it is during game play.  You get just a view of the gun as the character runs around slaying everything.  Pretty cool.  It was very obvious that it was all computer generated but a job well done.  

The last fight is what pissed me off.  From what I can remember, the end of every DOOM game ended with the main character fighting some oversized beast with a very little chance of survival.  It was virtually impossible to beat that end guy. In the XBOX title the end character was probably about 200 feet high and you needed to shoot it with this one special weapon, a Soul Cube, about 10 times, and after you shoot the Cube it took about 5 to 10 minutes for you to get it back to shoot it again.  Pretty damn impossible.  If this big guy gets close enough he will hit you once.  Your health literally goes from 100 to -100 with that single hit.

Interesting enough the way to do it, is to kill the few smaller guys running around first with your normal weapons and then just to the right of the entrance way there is a small cave with you can hide where the big guy cant get to you.  Just hide out in that cave waiting for the Soul Cube to return and blast him again.

So the end sequence in the movie was the two main characters going toe to toe.  Imagine a WWF style wrestling match where the two participants are on even more steroids than they are now, and the ability to fly short distances.  It lasted probably about 15 to 20 minutes of this crap.  It really ruined the whole show for me.  I get enough of the stupid/fake wrasselen when my brother forces me to watch that crap on TV.

My recommendation is to rent it.  Not worth the high cost of seeing it in the theatre.

6 Comments

• Unknown said Monday, November 7, 2005 10:08:00 AM

  What about the whole story line change? There wasn't a portal to hell..... there was some genetic mutation... oh boy.
  
  That's what really ruined it for me.

• Daniel Auger said Monday, November 7, 2005 10:16:00 AM

  I more-or-less agree with your review. There are two other things about the flick that turned me off.
  
  1) Why did they have to alter the basic plot of the game that the creatures came from hell? Is it not PC enough?
  
  2) There were only 3 or so different types of monsters, and outside of zombies, the number of creatures killed was somewhere between 10-15.

• Police said Monday, November 7, 2005 10:52:00 AM

  I'm wondering which fatass played the Cacodemon? :)

• faheem said Saturday, December 3, 2005 6:29:00 AM

  yup! If they had stuck with the original doom story line the movie could of been awesome! imps shooting fireballs, skeletons punching and shooting rockets, etc etc.
  
  If they didn't want to mention hell... they could of just said a portal opened to another dimension! and continued with the doom story line.
  
  The movie was ok though... I would give it 70%

• x said Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:27:12 PM

  I was hoping that it would be near DOOM's story line and not DOOM 3...... neways.. that's why I just went over the movie at 10 min gaps....

• Romulo said Friday, January 19, 2007 6:47:35 AM

  The movie was OK for rent... But there were to many changes to be real DOOM.... It was DOOM like, no more than that.... Resident Evil was better adapted.....