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Doomsday

The End Is Nigh.

Set a few decades in the future, after a deadly virus infected Scotland. The Brits built a high wall to quarantine the whole of Scotland, and waited for the virus to take its toll. Now, 30 years later, the virus has surfaced in London, and remote cameras are showing activity in Glasgow. The Brits decide to send a crack team to investigate. Their mission: find a cure in Scotland within 48 hours. Once there, however, they find two armed factions fighting with each other, and now also with them. They've only got 48 hours to find the cure and get out ... alive.

113 minutes, No persons under 18 (Language, Violence)
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Craig Conway, MyAnna Buring, Malcolm McDowell

Director

Neil Marshall

Screenplay

Neil Marshall

Music

Tyler Bates

Cinematography

Sam McCurdy

Editing

Andrew MacRitchie, Neil Marshall

Sound formats

Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2008

Produced by

Rogue PIctures, Intrepid PIctures, Crystal Sky Pictures, Scion Films, Moonlighting Films, IFB Dritte

SA Distributor

Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Very strong and frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Frequent, high impact, sustained, gory
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarMunyaradzi Vomo

Die BurgerMariana Malan

iAfrica.comRob Peters

The CitizenDavid Jenkin

24.comIvan Sadler

International Media

eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman The film looks cheap (not in an endearing way) and the action scenes are standard-issue quick-cut affairs — the final multi-car-pileup is strictly Mild Max.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli Take Mad Max, add elements of Escape from New York and I am Legend, insert a kick-ass heroine to rival Sigourney Weaver or Linda Hamilton, and employ strobe-like editing for the action sequences, and you have a fair approximation of Doomsday.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs

Metacritic.com14 critics

RottenTomatoes.com63 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Doomsday is a pale imitation of previous futuristic thrillers, minus the cohesive narrative and charismatic leads.

Internet (IMDB)16157 Netizens

Average .. 40%

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