Revealing mistake: The helmets the soldiers are wearing are made for airsoft/paintball players. No military would issue soldiers with helmets that had holes in them for field duty, as that could allow bullets or shrapnel to penetrate the soldiers' skulls.
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
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Directed by: Tony Giglio
Starring: James Weber Brown, Amy Manson, Dominic Mafham, Luke Allen-Gale
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I rented this movie from RedBox (when that was still around). And I THINK I own it on DVD...
Oh boy. Where to begin with this crap.
Right out the gate, I'll say I actually really like the 2005 Doom movie, and think it's underrated. It's a fun action movie with some horror... but that's not the movie I'm reviewing here today.
No this is the supposedly more faithful adaptation of Doom: Annihilation... So I'll give it that. Technically, based on the lore, yes this movie is more true to the source material than the 2005 movie. But holy... crap! is this movie bad. The writing absolutely sucks. The acting is near The Room levels of bad at times. And while there actually are demons in this movie that are from Hell, you pretty much only ever see one type. The Imp.
The effects are terrible...
and for some... some STUPID reason. They gender swapped Doomguy. Freaking DoomGUY. Turned him into DoomChick... and what's worse, they gave her the stupidest possible name. You thought Cypher Rage in After Earth was a bad character name? Get this... Her name is Joan Dark...
Joan, freaking Dark.
Really rolls off the tongue, huh?
The cast can't act their way out of a paper bag, and this is stupid on every step of the way. Not many movies will I give the 1 star rating of "I hate it" But this is for sure one of those.
Like the 2005 Doom movie or not, this one makes it look Star Wars or The Godfather.
And what is it with game movies having "Annihilation" in the title being such a curse. Both this, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation are easily the two worst video game to movie adaptations to ever be made, as far as watchability and how badly it's made.
Mistake Status: Oh you bet your ass I'm going to rip this one apart at some point. I'm gonna have FUN going frame by frame on this one.
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Akua: I'm your ultra nightmare, motherfuckers.
Trivia: References to the game series include: Weapons: the BFG 9000, shotgun and chainsaw Characters: John Carmack (co-creator and former lead programmer of the series), Malcolm Betruger (Doom 3's antagonist) and the ship's AI Daisy (the name of protagonist Doomguy's pet rabbit) Enemies: zombified humans, the fireball hurling creatures (called imps in the game) Quotes: "I'm too young to die", "ultra nightmare" (the easiest and hardest difficulty settings respectively) Additionally, the name William J Blazkowicz is a reference to William Joseph "B. J." Blazkowicz, the protagonist of the Wolfenstein series starting with Wolfenstein 3D, the game that Id Software created prior to releasing the first Doom game.