Doom: Annihilation (2019)

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A team of tough marines are send on a mission to check out a distress call from another planet. The people on the planet are practising dangerous experiments turning scientists into demonic blood thirsty space zombies.

Sequel to Doom (2005) and 1:1 copy of Aliens (1986). Basically they re-did Aliens on a budget right down to the Burke character. The only thing missing was Newt.
Surprisingly, Doom: Annihilation uses its low budget wisely as it looks pretty good. No cheap cardboard setting and no overuse of cheap CGI. There's plenty of well done handmade gore, blood splatter and zombie make up effects. The movie fails at offering sympathetic characters, good acting (it wasn't bad but it wasn't good either), originality, a sense for creating tension, scares and getting the audience engaged with an interesting plot. So, in the end I was only waiting for the next bloody kill.

Worth a rental when in the mood for a modern bad movie that doesn't look like a SyFy production, and perfect with the very similar Storage 24 (2012) if you're planning a bad movie double feature of films you've never seen.

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[bob]

this is a thing 

I remember seeing Doom in theater and being so disappointed

[Ted C]

I saw this recently and found it overall decent. Not so bad it's good. Not so good it's really good.

I don't see it as a sequel to Doom with the Rock and Karl Urban. More of a remake from scratch. I guess they rolled with it because the new version of Doom came out?

It definitely makes an effort to incorporate a lot of the little elements of the game: key cards, the shotgun, a few types of demon -- especially imps. The script is okay. The acting is okay. The directing is okay. What defines this movie is everything is just... okay.

Pet peeve: When you walk into a room full of equipment and the villain is monologuing, either shoot the villain or shoot the equipment. Don't stand around waiting for something bad to happen.