I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Powerful

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Andrzej Bartkowiak has been the cinematographer on three films that were nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment and Prizzi's Honor. But he may be better known for his films that combined hip-hop and action, like Cradle 2 the Grave, Exit Wounds and Romeo Must Die. He's also been behind two video game films: Doom and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.That said, Time selected this as one of the top 10 worst video game movies, along with House of the Dead, Wing Commander, In the Name of the King, Hitman, BloodRayne, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Double Dragon, Street Fighter and Super Mario Brothers. Trust me -- it's not that bad. And films like this (and a few others on the list) don't belong in the same wastebin as Uwe Boll films.After a Mars research station is attacked, Dr. Todd Carmack sends a distress call that is answered by a team of Marines, led by Asher "Sarge" Mahonin (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban, Dredd) and his sister, Dr. Samantha (Rosamund Pike, star of Becca's go to DVD, Gone Girl) are there to retrieve critical info before the base is destroyed. We learn that they were born on Mars and their parents were killed here. All that remained after their accident were skeletons of genetically enhanced humans.Of course, all hell breaks loose -- literally. Demonic monsters attack, The Rock ends up being the bad guy, innocent people get killed, a long first-person sequence happens and there's plenty of action. Seriously, the movie is short on story and long on special effects and gore. It's like an Alien movie without the xenomorphs, I guess. Or much excitement. It's competently made, but an hour after it was over and I started writing this, all I could remember that I enjoyed was that the Rock played against his usual character and that Karl Urban got to be the hero.

I was very dissapointed when I saw the movie. It is one big disgrace to the Doom games which are legendary in the gaming community. Maybe I am talking this way because I don't like Dwayne Johnson, but I know what Doom was all about.. and this movie isn't. Feels unfinished, looks unfinished, bad acting.. all summed up 4/10

This movie must be rated at least nine out of ten since the cast is well- suited for an action film, the plot is coherent and bears resemblance to the original game and acting is , in contrast to what other critics say, is actually awesome. The psychological and physical struggle between The Rock and Urban is well told throughout the movie, thus the climax is their final fight. Overall, a good plot and characters make a good sci-fi action adventure movie. This film is definitely worth watching twice.

This film pulls off the neat trick of ripping off like 4 different Aliens movies at once. It's a feat of screen writing. It's good fun for a long time, nonetheless. The casting is rather good, I've never liked Urban as much in anything else as I did in this. Rosamund Pike is great as always. And great credit for casting The Rock in a bad guy role. Dwayne Johnson is much better-suited to be playing menacing heavies like this than his usual stuff. He started out as a heel in wrestling for a good reason. Anyway it's well-made, by the numbers kind of stuff. It includes a 'revelation' of something the audience had figured out literally a half hour prior. Bad writing there. But it doesn't connect the twins' parents' death to the current plot - which is good writing and shows restraint. The monsters were OK. Nothing special. The rules of the hunt weren't really established - movie didn't quite play fair. Monsters would seemingly reappear out of nowhere when needed, when realistically, 3 or 4 giant monsters rampaging around would make a lot of noise and be hard to miss. There's a rather brilliant bit late. Urban has just 'evolved' via the injection. The film suddenly wakes up, as he wakes up, and suddenly we're seeing a hyper-kinetic film version of a first-person shooter game. Stylistically this works in two ways at once, showing how he sees now with heightened awareness and intelligence and ability, while also doing the cool homage to the game.Unfortunately, following this wonderful scene, we get a horrible endless drawn out terrible tedious not interesting at all knock down drag out between Urban and the Rock, both enhanced. This damn scene just refuses to end. There's literally no tension or interest whatsoever, the thing isn't filmed interestingly, or choreographed interestingly - we know who's going to win, and Pike's character has already been safely seen away, meaning there's nothing at stake in the scene and no risk to anybody. It's just bad. It's a slog. A huge comedown after the amazing rush of the first-person shooter sequence.But all in all, not a bad movie. As a fan of such stuff (monster movies, sci-fi action films, etc) I enjoyed it. No regrets.