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On "Oldies but Goodies", rudrah wrote:

 “Doomsday”

1 Overalls Score: B+

2 Direction, Production and Script Values:

This script is sharp, but what gives it the boost is the quality of the actors. Rhona Mitra is like Kate (Beckinsdale) of the “Underworld” series, a charismatic, totally-in-control, sexually charged woman who has serious acting dimension. Both Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell have nuanced roles with actual motive and texture, while the supporting cast is never less than professional B-movie competent.

What this writer-director does is to never stay in one “Mad Max”, “James Bond”, “Knights and Armour” modern “Plague city” background so long (that) the seams and such show. And cleverly, these eras and stage settings make sense in the world of the story. It’s fast-paced, (believe me, if you stop to think, this schtick will vanish).

The cannibalism is chillingly explicit, killing, cooking, carving and eating. The gore is photo-real. Scores of women getting blasted away and such. “Everybody fights, everybody dies” is the fight scene extra’s creed here.

3 Female Fight Content:

One great sword fight to the decapitation death. It it brutally nasty, physically like (Steven) Seagal’s “Above the Law”, and not interrupted. We are there to watch two gorgeous women fight to the death. It is two minutes. I wanted more fists and intimate hand to hand hatefulness, but at least we got a logical, explicit fight to the death with raw meat injury footage.

4 Female Mayhem :

The knight fight between out heroine and the chief knight is “Gladiator” tough.

5 Notes:

The background wit, and not following expected roads, makes this a see in the theater show.

 

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