Doomsday
Post-apocalyptic virus thriller from director Neil Jordan (the man who terrified us with The Descent). Authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until the dreaded Reaper virus violently 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 Mad-Max-type landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
- Director:
- Neil Marshall ('The Descent', 'Dog Soldiers')
- Writer:
- Neil Marshall
- Cast:
- Rhona MitraMalcolm McDowellBob HoskinsAlexander SiddigDavid O'HaraAdrian Lester
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressThose with a taste for revved-up, splattery fantasy thrills won't be complaining.
Time Out
pressMash note to '80s postapocalyptic action-adventures re-creates the era's trashy pleasures with such scrupulous fidelity -- and distinct lack of irony -- that you'd swear the movie was unearthed from the ruins of a Times Square grind house.
Variety
pressThose with a taste for revved-up, splattery fantasy thrills won't be complaining.
Time Out
pressMash note to '80s postapocalyptic action-adventures re-creates the era's trashy pleasures with such scrupulous fidelity -- and distinct lack of irony -- that you'd swear the movie was unearthed from the ruins of a Times Square grind house.
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