It’s like Hell, except they expect you to pay to experience it.
Look, the 2005 Doom movie was… not good. And that’s despite having, for the time, a pretty good cast (a reminder that even good actors can have a hard time spinning shit into gold). I’m pretty sure there’s only one part anyone genuinely liked, too:
So, it’s kind of beyond me why they’re making a sequel. Thanks to Universal 1440 Entertainment (a subdivision of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment), we have Doom: Annihilation:
Universal 1440 Entertainment, the production arm of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, has once again opened a portal to Hell with Doom: Annihilation, a brand new, direct-to-video adaptation of the Doom video game franchise. Described as an “intense action-packed” all-new installment, the movie will be released in Fall 2019. Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive world trailer premiere for Annihilation, which carries shades of James Cameron’s Aliens and looks like a damn good time. Will we see the return of the BFG?
The sequel follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.
Doom: Annihilation was written and directed by Tony Giglio (S.W.A.T.: Under Siege), and stars Amy Manson (”Atlantis”), Dominic Mafham (Ophelia), Luke Allen-Gale (“Dominion”) and Nina Bergman (The Car: Road to Revenge).
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (Bumblebee) and John Wells (“Animal Kingdom”) executive produced, with producers including Jeffery Beach (Jarhead 3: The Siege), Phillip Roth (Death Race: 4 Beyond Anarchy) and Ogden Gavanski (Cult of Chucky).
It, uh… looks every bit the straight-to-video shitfest it sounds like. I mean, look at it, it looks like a terrible FMV game from back in the day, only shot in high-res. And “Die die die!” is a far cry from a good old fashioned “Rip and tear!” or a philosophical discussion of guts and the having thereof.
This first impression is so bad, someone asked Bethesda what they thought. Their response:
Harsh.
Source: PC Gamer
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