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Doomsday (2008) Unrated version - some minor SPOILERS will occur, no major ones ..
Anywho ... have you seen this?
You know for all of it's many, many, many flaws this was a good movie. Think 'Mad Max' meets 'Braveheart' meets 'Escape from NY' meets 'Resident Evil' ... ok got that, good. You have 'Doomsday'.
Off in the near future a virus called the Reaper Virus infects Scotland, there is no cure and it kills everyone. So in good Roman fashion the Brits wall off Scotland right alone Hadrian's Wall and fagitaboutit. A small girl is places on a military helicopter to escape and her mother is left behind, her eye is lost prior to the evac in the riots. So years, nay a couple of decades pass and she's all grown up, p**sed off and full of hate working for the government with a cool removable bionic eye, fully equipped with remote control.
So suddenly the virus is back this time in London and the government spy satellites see life in Scotland, somehow they must have found a cure and they want it. So they assemble a team of well trained military specialist to go to the walled off Scotland to find a cure, led by ... you guess it RoboEye girl. So before they go, they're told there is/was a top notch doctor there that must have developed a cure and they need to find him to find the cure ... so off they go. Secret info is passed around, you get to see it, don't you feel special.
Skip over a few boring bits and slick as snot their in downtown Edinburgh and man doesn't the place need tiding up a bit. Well they go to the lab to find the Doc and wouldn't you know it he's not there, but a few 100 unfriendly locals are, led by the evil Sol who looks a lot like the lead singer from Midnight Oil with a blond Mohawk. See all the bad people are very punked out and cannibalistic. Well chases the battle erupt and a few of the solders are captures to be eaten, but not before they pass out the paper plates ... never mind the fact it's been nearly 30 years since anything was shipped into or made in Scotland, they still have fresh papers plate ... but just for show as they attack the cooked corpse and eat like animals. Provided your not cute little bunny, but that was earlier and you'll have to see the movie to know what I'm talking about. Well anyway it would seem that not only do you have paper plates, you can also run a PA system and stadium lighting off a car battery ... must have been a Interstate battery to hold a charge for 30 years, while be used. Ok be that as it may, lead roboeye girl, aka Maj. Eden Sinclair is captured and not having a good day at all, not even a little. While she is locked up, the paper plate tossing, car battery using, hot dancing girls that can still shave their legs and armpits in a post apocalyptic viral world crowd are having fairly well mannered party for hooligans that are getting ready to eat some guy, while rock soundtrack play.
Cut away back to the cell and guess who is getting free ... yep Maj Babe and her handy roboeye. More killing, more chasing, then more killing and a little more chasing and they're free, but not before she frees a girl from prison who can help ... there is always somebody else you can free that will help and knows the ropes, what luck there's one here too.
So off they go to escape from the punk rock hair dyed clean shaven bad guys just to run into seeming nice people that are bad too, hell they're everywhere. So they go look for the doctor to find the cure ... but a short cut leads them through an old government underground storage complex that will come in handy later.
Meanwhile back in London the Prime Minster is going to have to close off part of London to contain the virus, this is not good. Marshall Law, panic, riots this is going to be Scotland all over again ... unless that damn cure is found. Oh but the PM's evil aid has a plan to solve to over population poverty problem ... let them die! And he is power hungry too, the power behind the man.
So will they find the cure? Is there a cure?
What will become of the Prime Minster and his evil aid?
Well London survive? Where the hell is the Queen?
Well our hero's escape or will they forever be trapped in the untamed world that once was Scotland?
To find out to answer to these and much, much more ... watch the movie.
I'm giving it 4 out of 5
I'm overlooking the glaring errors, many I didn't list. Like where the hell did they get gas? It's goes bad in storage in a couple of years. Do tell me they made it, they can't grow food, pretty sure they're not refining it. And where did the purple hair dye come from? Don't tell me 30 years in the stores they still have some around ... who makes their cloths? Anyway ignore all of that, it's a good solid entertaining movie that is worth adding to any collection I believe.
edit: clarity to correct a 2AM post.