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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 58Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyBy hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerDoom may be by the numbers, with a roll call of colorful types systematically exterminated while The Rock entertains with cartoonish expressions and reactions (the closest the film comes to personality).
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterPlot, character development and dialogue are so sparse that the screenwriters are fortunate they're not paid by the word. But this basic approach doesn't render it ineffectual. There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault.
- 38Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanWe don't need a discussion of plot in a review of a movie made from a video game, do we? Nor do we care whether the characters are complicated (no), the acting is sophisticated (no), the direction is competent (no) or the camerawork is clever (no).
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonA loud, standard-issue sci-fi action film that has a confusing mission.
- 30Los Angeles TimesGene SeymourLos Angeles TimesGene SeymourShows less human dimension than the new Wallace and Gromit movie.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovGo for the gore (there's lots of it), but stay for the immortal line: "Now let's go find the body this arm belongs to."
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliA dreadful, hackneyed piece of cinema.
- 25Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandPhiladelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandDoom is, to its detriment, a remarkably faithful re-creation of the massively popular video game. In other words, it's a dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.
- 20The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThis claustrophobic mess of a movie offers only carnage.