Doomsday (2008) 7/10

Starring : Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Pertwee
Director : Neil Marshall
Running Time : 113 mins

The deadly Reaper virus starts to spread throughout the UK, and the authorities react by quarantining the whole of Scotland in the hope of stopping the spread to the rest of the world. Thirty years later the virus shows up in London, so one of the few survivors of the virus that managed to escape from Scotland, Eden Sinclair (Mitra), along with a group of specialists, are sent back in past the cordon to try to secure a suspected cure for the virus when survivors are spotted via satellite wandering the streets of Glasgow. Unfortunately the survivors are flesh eating anarchists and soon the group find themselves fighting for their lives.

This movie has the distinct feel of 28 Days Later, but with more of a Hollywood twist. Whereas Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers and The Descent were distinctly British, this has the marks of an American action movie written all over it, despite it's setting. There's some homage paid to both the Mad Max series as well as Escape From New York, but this still has a bit of originality left in it.

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