Doomsday Movie

I don't review many movies I'll explain why I'm mentioning this one in particular. It was really odd was having a chat with my mate Johnny (Lord Siwoc) about post apocalyptic movies  and he showed me a trailer for this movie. I was quite surprised that  I hadn't heard of it this sooner considering it came out in 2008! So asap I picked it up as from the trailer I'd seenI thought it would make good fodder for Across the Dead Earth.

In 2008, an unknown killer virus, dubbed "The Reaper Virus", has infected Scotland, turning people into savage animals and killing the host. The UK government cannot quarantine the virus because they have neither cure nor vaccine, and they decide to build a 60-foot containment wall over the border with Scotland, isolating it from the rest of Britain, and also the docks, airports and bridges, preventing it from spreading. Meanwhile, with teams of soldiers evacuating the last of the healthy survivors, a Scottish woman begs a soldier to rescue her daughter, wounded after a riot and missing her right eye. A soldier sacrifices his place in the helicopter to save the girl, and she is transported out of the quarantine zone as the soldier and her mother stay behind.

The quarantine is deemed a success, with the rest of the Scottish population dying off from the virus, in ensuring the safety of the rest of the UK population across the decades. However the genocidal quarantine operation formed by the government destroys diplomatic relations between the UK and the rest of the world including the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations, causing massive unemployment, civil unrest and extreme economic turmoil in the UK as the people oppose the containment and genocide concluded by the government.

27 years after the Scotland quarantine, in 2035 London, during a police raid, the police officers find several people infected with a similar Reaper Virus. Fearing that the virus has returned to the rest of Britain, Prime Minister Hatcher and his right-hand man, Canaris, share with domestic security chief Captain Nelson news of survivors in Scotland during a CCTV filming of the area, and they believe a cure may exist there. They order him to send a team into Scotland to find medical researcher Dr. Kane, who was working on a cure when Scotland was quarantined. Nelson chooses Major Eden Sinclair, the little girl saved in the initial evacuation, now grown up and an DDS (Department of Domestic Security) soldier, to lead the team, who has a new medical mechanical eye to replace her missing one.

That pretty much sets the scene nicely without going into spoiling what happens to much. There is plenty of action throughout great special effects and it has a great atmosphere about  it. There are some interesting factions and I found some of the cast quite comical but loved them all the more for it especially Sol and Viper there also seems to be a love of 80's music as it features quite a lot (a good thing IMO as its done really well). There's bits from many film that are similar but it doesn't feel out of place and in away it pays homage to them and compliments them in a nice way. It has quite a star studded cast from Bob Hoskins, Malcom McDowell, Adrian Lester, MyAnna Buring, David O'Hara and Sean Pertwee and many more your sure to recognise as you watch it.

Only the car chase at the end seemed a bit off to me and not so much that there was one in it.more how they came across the car and how it was used. Its definitely worth a watch and I've watched it twice in the past few weeks which means its a good one (well to me anyway)

If I was to rate it I'd have to give it a 4 out of 5 stars not perfect but certainly watch able again and again :)