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Doom and Gloom

Advantages: Sound/Audio, Special Effects
Disadvantages: cop out from the game, not enough monsters, story, unoriginal

...Back in the early 90's Doom was at the forefront of the gaming world. With much better graphics and game play (including network play) than most other games. Players could immerse themselves in the world of a Marine fighting demon's from Hell, on Mars. Then in late 2004 we had some more of the same with Doom3, only with bigger better graphics and a more refined storyline (even if the game was a bit linear). Amongst gamers, the idea that there would ...
...story of the game (particularly Doom 3) was fairly simple. You are on a tour of duty at the UAC facilities on Mars, when they access a portal to hell and let all sorts of demons out, and you basically run around killing any demon that moves before descending into Hell to have a go at the boss himself. This was the kind of story I would have liked seen to port over to the film. Dark dingy corridors, masses of monsters and demons coming at you before ...

sjp1966 22.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Doom (DVD)

Sci-Fi Action at it's finest!

Advantages: You'll want to watch the sequel straight away and it's there in one box!
Disadvantages: Doom is fairly generic and formulaic. Still worth a watch though.

...In a nut-shell: Pitch Black - Vin Diesel as the mysterious and dangerous Riddick. A murderous fugitive stranded on a barren planet after their ship crashes with some bounty hunters and some innocent passengers. As Riddick attempts to escape his captives it soon becomes clear their are more pressing dangers on this planet. He may be a killer, but a killer with a good soul as he saves more than just himself. Chronicles of Riddick - Vin Diesel again ...
...out of luck and on the run this time he finds himself on the run from a rampaging cult called the Necromongers set on Galactic domination and Riddick is in their way! Can he survive their supernatural power, could he even be the key to human survival? The Riddick storylines are engrossing and well thought out with some cracking special effects. The characters are also very well thought out with a nice follow-on in the sequel showing us the characters ...

iandilley 16.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Pitch Black/Doom/The Chronicles of Riddick (Box Set) (DVD)

Space-based antics!

Advantages: Good special effects and serenity has a great plot.
Disadvantages: Doom is a bit of a let-down.

Serenity - A hardened space cowboy, psychic butt-kicking girl, flesh eating carnivorous humans living on the outskirts of space and a galactic conspiracy. Altogether a fantastic story, great special effects and an interesting take on the development of language in the future. Like Shakespeare in space! Sorry Will. Doom - Trouble in a secret research facility on a foreign planet. Only one way in and out and the genetically enhanced killers aren't ...
...explosions. Based on the hugely popular computer game Doom. Hardcore Doom fans may find the lack of first person views disappointing, but overall a good special effects and a mediocre script and plot. 2 for the price of 1, but at this price I'm not sure if I would have purchased them. Happilly added to my DVD collection at lower price, but not recommending purely because of the price. Good films though! ...

iandilley 16.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Serenity/Doom (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)