Doomsday (2008)

A really cool set-up, followed by some great action, at which point things take a turn for the bizarre. I can see the writer and his buddy smoking weed and playing Grand Theft Auto, when one turns to the other and says, "Hey, wouldn't it be killer if someone in a Bentley suddenly pulled up alongside Mel on his way to the Thunderdome?" Well, in this movie, you'll get to see that.

Mad Max and 28 Days Later are just two of the many movies they borrow from. Additionally, you will discover the answers to questions like "What if a hot chick played the role of Russell Crowe in Gladiator? What if Kurt Russell was escaping from Scotland instead of L.A. and New York? What if the fellows from LOTR took the shortcut through the mountain and found a $250,000 set of wheels instead of nothing but heartache?

If you'd like to find out the answers to these questions and more, this movie is for you. If all this sounds like a bunch of nonsense, move on. At best you'll get some good laughs from this amalgam of movies past.

Rating: C