Doom: Annihilation (2019)

Directed by: Tony Giglio | 96 minutes | action, adventure | Actors: Amy Manson, Dominic Mafham, Luke Allen-Gale, James Weber Brown, Clayton Adams, Nina Bergman, Amer Chadha-Patel, Gavin Brocker, Chidi Ajufo, Hari Dhillon, Katrina Nare, Arkie Reece, Jemma Moore, Louis Mandylor, Gina Philips, Cassidy Little, Kate Nichols, Agleya Gumnerova, Lorina Kamburova, Nathan Cooper

In 1994 ‘Doom II’ was released. This computer game revolutionized the games industry. In the game, you controlled a Marine and saw the action from his perspective. ‘Doom II’ perfected the first person shooter, the genre that ‘Wolfenstein’ started with. Hollywood saw the success of the game and decided to make a movie around this franchise. With little success, because the 2005 The Rock vehicle ‘Doom’ flopped mercilessly. Understandable, because what works in a game doesn’t necessarily work as a movie. Now reboot ‘Doom: Annihilation’ may try to bring gamers and non-gamers together.

In ‘Doom: Annihilation’, scientists discover a portal. This mystical passage makes it easy to teleport. No corner of the universe turns out to be out of reach. Unfortunately, less nice things also come to light, when it turns out that demons use this teleportation gate. It’s up to a bunch of Marines to stop these monsters.

The story of ‘Doom: Annihilation’ is very weak and based on the game. However, you don’t play the game for the story – that had never been the asset of this digital phenomenon – but for the action and the feeling of being that Marine. You sat in his armor as a gamer and saw his hands holding a weapon. You were him and you controlled him. However, the medium of film puts a director behind the wheel and the viewer has no influence on the story. With a weak story (read: a bad, washed out copy of ‘Aliens’) and a limited budget you are not going to convince anyone to see this film. Unfortunately, ‘Doom: Annihilation’ turned out to be a disastrously bad movie.

In addition to a bad story, the bad acting and poor special effects also stand out. There was little money to spend and that results in bad grime, bad rubber monster suits and laughable CGI. ‘Doom: Annihilation’ is a deadly boring movie. Quickly forget this downer.