I don't know what that thing is, but I bet The Rock is dumber than it.

Doom

directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Crade 2 the Grave)
story by David Callaham
screenplay by David Callaham and Wesley Strick (The Saint)

produced by John Wells (White Oleander), Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine)

starring The Rock (The Scorpion King), Karl Urban (The Chronicles of Riddick), Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day), Deobia Oparei (Thunderbirds), Razaaq Adoti (Resident Evil: Apocalypse), Richard Brake (Batman Begins), Al Weaver (The Merchant of Venice)

lowdown:  First person action movie adapted from a first person video game. 

low expectation:   
     Finally a film gets the experience of watching a friend play video games by using first person perspective just the way the video game does.  Too bad the movie didn't come out ten years ago when the game was still a hot property and before the Resident Evil movies were released.  The only thing that makes Doom not look exactly like the Resident Evils is that it actually looks worse.  It even looks worse than Jason X.  In fact, I think it might also be the worst movie set on Mars, and that says a lot. 

con:  Based on a video game.   

website:  Doommovie.com

official synopsis:
     Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures . . . have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation . . . and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysteries: Doom.

When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless years in the future and told in the hyper- kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

Doom is directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Cradle 2 the Grave). The film is written by Wesley Strick and Dave Callaham, based on the id Software videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER). -- © Universal Pictures

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Expectation Key


there's no possible way I will ever see this

I might eventually see this but I'm not really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but I'm sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment