DOOMSDAY (2008)

This film could be for real in a few months time, so i thought i'd better check it out.
This is the bastard off-spring of '28 Weeks Later', 'Mad Max 2' and 'Escape From New York.'
Set in the near future, a rapidly spreading virus kills kills everyone in Glasgow. As such Scotland is sealed off (nod to 'Escape from New York') and everyone left within Scotland is left to fight the virus and rampaging riots etc and then die.

30 years later the virus has appeared in London..people are starting to die there and fast too.
Thing is, in Scotland, they have found survivors still sealed within the Hot Zone...and if they survived the first outbreak there must be a cure there.

Cue Rhona Mitra, as an ass kicking, sexy Special Forces specialist to go into Scotland and find the cure.
but she only has 48 hours to do it.
Glasgow is a bad ass place with gangs, beatings and killings, in the film its made to look even worse. Its refreshing to see a different location other than LA or New York for a change.
Presumably the location is due to the Scottish director and writer Neil Lambert shooting his biggest film to date.

Rhona Mitra is good in her role, but she could easily be mistaken for 'Underworld's' Kate Beckinsale.
The similarities are frightning, the character is near identical if you remove the vampire aspect.
They look the same and sound the same.
This is not a problem as Kate Beckinsale in Underworld kicks ass, so more of the same is good to me.

This also stars Bob Hoskins and Malcom MacDowell.
MacDowell plays his usual baddie role, pretty much as he did in Star Trek Generations

From then on we go into a post apocolyptic future, run by Punks with axes and blades (Mad Max) and Medieval Knights in armour.
Some great Mad Max style road chases and lots of blood and guts.

If you love Escape From New York / Mad Max and 28 Weeks Later, you will love this film.
Its not particularily original in content, but it takes the best aspects of some very good films and makes a bad ass tribute to them. Recommended
7/10