Doomsday

Doomsday (2008)

Mankind has an expiration date.

Release:2008
Runtime:1h 48m
Country:Germany
Director:Neil Marshall
Language:English

Genre

ActionScience FictionThriller
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Keywords

QuarantinedystopiaPost Apocalyptic FutureSword FightFuturisticLethal VirusAction Hero2030s

Doomsday rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb5.9/10· 82K votes
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Metacritic51%
TMDb5.938/10· 1K votes

With 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.9/10 on IMDb and 51/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Doomsday

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Cast of Doomsday

  • Rhona Mitra

    Rhona Mitra

    as Eden Sinclair

  • Bob Hoskins

    Bob Hoskins

    as Bill Nelson

  • Adrian Lester

    Adrian Lester

    as Sergeant Norton

  • Alexander Siddig

    Alexander Siddig

    as Prime Minister John Hatcher

  • David O'Hara

    David O'Hara

    as Michael Canaris

  • Malcolm McDowell

    Malcolm McDowell

    as Dr. Marcus Kane

  • Sean Pertwee

    Sean Pertwee

    as Dr. Talbot

  • MyAnna Buring

    MyAnna Buring

    as Cally Kane

  • Emma Cleasby

    Emma Cleasby

    as Katherine Sinclair

  • C

    Caryn Peterson

    as Vagrant Girl

  • A

    Adeola Ariyo

    as Nurse

  • C

    Christine Tomlinson

    as Major Eden Sinclair

Doomsday facts

Budget
$30M
Box office
$22.5M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

  • dystopian action thrills with high-stakes sci-fi premise
  • post-apocalyptic setting creates distinctive visual atmosphere
  • lethal virus concept grounds speculative fiction threat

What the audience disliked

  • character development sacrificed for action set pieces
  • plot coherence suffers from genre mashup confusion

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