Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:13 AM [
Unity recommends]
I just watched Doomsday, an amazing homage of a movie. A
curveball popcorn throwback to glory days of sci-fi action movies of the 80s,
Doomsday isn’t even coy about its obvious nods to Escape From New York, Aliens,
The Warriors, Mad Max and even a hint (well, a total swipe, really) of 28 Days
Later. Even the score sounds like vintage John Carpenter keyboard noodling. The
cast includes a former Lara Croft model, the fat English fella from Roger
Rabbit, that doctor guy from Deep Space Nine and the one white-haired English
actor who wasn't in a Lord of the Rings movie but probably should have been.
Rhona Mitra is channeling Snake Plisken (with a touch of that other Snake, too)
with all of her might and pulls it off pretty damn well.
This movie has literally everything: Camera eyeballs. Gratuitous
Mohawks. Accidental shotgun headshots. A gimp. Trashed APCs. Trashed Bentley.
Trashed Glasgow. Multiple decapitations. Incongruous train escape. London
burning. Leather pants. Leather boots. Leather everything. Car surfing. Slow
motion knights on horseback. Exposed lady bits. Obviously expendable military
hardasses. A dude who is neither quite the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n Rolla or The
Duke, but almost. Extreme gore. Major daddy issues. Tattooed faces. Tattooed
backs. Tattooed everything. Lock picking. Ass kicking. The world’s most
dangerous bus. Crossbows. Foam grenades. Flying saw blades. Robotic gun
turrets. A motorcycle with a skeleton on the front. Chicks sword fighting. Lots
of shooting. Rioting. Cannibalism. Dance review numbers set to Fine Young
Cannibals and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Exploding cars. Exploding rabbits.
Exploding everything.
If you like your dystopian futures filled with vomiting
infected Londoners and costume designs one part nine inch nails, one part
Burning Man and 100% awesome, Doomsday is the movie for you. Your PS3 was
designed specifically by Ken Kutaragi just to play a BluRay disc like
this. Get it!