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Doomsday

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We are in 2035 some 25 years after an outbreak of a deadly and unstoppable virus in Scotland. The government in London decided at the time of the outbreak to refit Hadrian's wall to prevent anyone and anyhing to escape from Scotland and let nature settle things by itself inside the confined area. This version of the wall is made out of steel and guarded by some rather effective fully automatic sentry guns so England's "Endlösung" proved pretty effective for many years.

But nature is smarter and the virus manage to cross the border and soon a team of soldiers and scientists are headed into the death zone with the mission to capture a method or knowledge of how to make a vaccine.

One know that "something" has survived the virus, and luckily for us, the spectators, the "something" turns out be true madmen that live in full anarchy with the acquired habit of cannibalism. These people must have seen Mad Max before the disaster because the hairstyle and behavior is back in high fashion. There are other groups of surviving people as well, and these people apparently preferred the worst aspects of the medieval and roman time epochs when they decided how to run their societies. All in all, action movie lovers have nothing to fear.

I do not really think the owners of the Bentley brand are too happy to see that their model gets outrunned by some homemade junk. I have lost faith in Bentley and will never consider buying it. I am also skeptical that the GSM network is still operational in 2035, but maybe we'll make everyhing backward compatible in the future.

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Comments

Arjan van LeeuwenAVL Monday, May 19, 2008 8:16:09 AM

Nice review, weird movie... It felt like it was glued together at times. The best I can say about that was that it was genre-transcending... The worst that it kinda was a mess smile. A fun mess though, I enjoyed watching the whole thing.

Espen Sandespens Monday, May 19, 2008 8:35:37 AM

This movie holds a record: The highest scream from one of the SMEx spectators so far.

Adam Minchintonminch Monday, May 19, 2008 8:47:38 AM

It was a fun movie, but like the dutch said it did feel a bit glued together....

It felt like I starting watching Escape from NY/LA then it switched to Mad Max and some point and then it was over smile

Christian Uribechrisu Monday, May 19, 2008 1:16:18 PM

This was a fun and entertaining movie.
That chick can kick some serious ass!
Agree about the Bentley, having a 1001 HP Veyron being easily outrun by some scrapyards convertibles was a low point. I would like to see the "making the movie" to find out how did they manage to film some of the sequences without really scratching that 1 mill euros (exc. taxes) car p

I can highly recommend this movie.

ElseElse-Marie Minchinton Monday, May 19, 2008 7:04:06 PM

Yes, Espen. Thank you. It could also have been the weird dude a few seats away from you. This movie was way too weird- and funny at times...

Espen Sandespens Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:29:36 AM

Weird dude indeed. To the rest: This person sat by himself three seats away from me and laughed at the wrong times. Especially during the more violent scenes.

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