Doomsday

I wanted to see this movie the moment I clapped my eyes on the poster. It looked so Mad Max that the plot meant very little to me. And in a way, this was very reminiscent of the Road Warrior himself. I liked it, but I have low standards. It had action, Mohawks, cannibalism, a devastatingly awesome virus and a kick ass heroin.

2008, Scotland is being wiped out by the deadly Reaper Virus. Since no one cares about Scotland, they build a wall 360 around the border to quarantine the infection and wait for everyone to just die off. Just as the gates were closing and the last of the military helicopters are leaving, a young woman carrying her small child who just had her eye shot out to the soldiers and begs them to at least take the child. Up the kid goes, with one less eye, an envelope with her address on it and a dream in her heart.

Tick tock, some undisclosed amount of time goes by and we are in the future and the little girl, Eden Sinclair, has grown into a tough as nails Military cop type thing, honestly I don’t know what she does, but they gave her a cybernetic eye to replace the gaping hole that must have been grossing everyone out. All sad because she never knew her mother who was unceremoniously locked in Scotland to die, she keeps the envelope by her heart, believing one day she can go back and like, get her shit or whatever. She must have been knocking on wood or something because the Reaper virus just made an appearance in London and surveillance cameras over Scotland have picked up survivors. What luck, with survivors, there is a cure, and with a cure the government can make a vaccine to sell to the richest people… I mean, to save the civilians.

Sinclair suits up and enters the quarantine zone. Her mission is to find Dr. Kane who is believed to have found the cure after all this time. Sinclair and her team soon discover that a crap load of people survived the virus but preferred Soylent Green to Angus Beef. Sinclair and another member of her team is captured and interrogated by Sol, the group leader. While everyone is snacking on her friend, she escapes after chopping the head off of Sol’s girlfriend and makes a new friend with a fellow prisoner who conveniently is Dr. Kane’s daughter. What luck!

Anyway, they travel to meet the Doctor, get captured again and are brought to the castle where he has set up shop. Turns out, the Doctor has no cure and must be demented because he the whole town is just a Renaissance Fair gone terribly awry.

Blah blah blah, the virus is spreading greater in London and is now within the walls of the command unit. Well, Sinclair better hustle.

Fun times for an evening with buttered pop corn, a sense of humor, and a love for movies about hypothetical viruses with really cool names that wipe out the population in Great Britain. They really like their virus movies out there.