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I just watched Doom a few hours ago and I must say that I enjoyed it more than I expected to. I am not a huge fan of the game but have played each of them and the makers of this film did a decent job in the adaptation. My biggest complaint about the film was the lack of creatures. It was almost more of a zombie movie than it was a creature movie. Also the fact that the creatures/zombies were biologically created instead of coming from hell was disappointing. Besides the Rock and Karl Urban for a cast of relative unknowns they did as good a job as one could expect in this type of film. In my opinion the Rock stole the show as he has a tendency to do with his magnetic personality. I don't want to give anything away but this is not the same Rock you have seen in his other movies! Overall Doom was a good action/sci-fi movie that you can just enjoy for an hour and a half.

First off I have not seen the original so I can not compare the two. This movie was very predictable and slow moving. I believe the running time is around an hour and 40 minutes but it felt like I was there for over two hours. The film had no genuine scares just your run of the mill loud noises and poor attempts at suspense. Now I am all for suspending reality for the sake of a good movie but some of the scenes in this movie were far beyond that. The cast was about as unimpressive as the film itself. This movie is not entertaining in the least. I can only hope that the original is better than this. Maybe I should give it a shot at redemption from the complete waste that the remake is. Its too bad this movie did not fall victim to the fog.