Remember the days of Doom. Running around the moon of Mars (Phobos or Fear) and shooting at Oinkers, Boasters, and the scariest of them all, Old Ashmacka himself. I remember many a wasteful day playing that game and I loved it. Where else can you get scared from a video game? The first time I made it to the Old Ashmacka Level, I was scared shitless. Honestly, a video game had never scared me like that, and this was Doom 1. I have never played the other Dooms but from what I hear, the Third is the Scariest.
Now to the movie. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson whom I have grown alot of respect for since he seems like a pretty cool guy from interviews, plays Sarge. Sarge is the leader of a rag tag space marine group that is sent to Mars through a booger flinging Space warp thing called the Ark.
On Mars, the shit has hit the fan. Dorky scientist are running everywhere from scary monsters that were created by Scientologist to originally convert mankind. But now, Genetic experiments have made the Scientologist go ape shit and kill the scientist.
Its up to The Rock and his group to secure and destroy any scary monster on the research center on Mars. While there, they meet the Knock Out scientist Dr. Samantha (Mantha) Grimm (Played by Rosemond Pike (Die Another Day)). Rosemond Pike basically nips out and gets scared through most of the movie. Her twin brother John Grimm (Karl Urban...Lord of the Rings and The Bourne Stupremacy) is a bad ass who doesn't take shit from anybody. Karl's performance was probably the strongest of the movie.
Anyway, this movie was basically a dumbed down version of the classic movie, Aliens. While that may sound degrading to the movie, I actually didn't think it was that bad. Yea, many of the critics blasted it and I can partially see why. But the purpose of this movie was to entertain. I was especially impressed with the First Person shooter scene. That was actually impressive, I thought. I didn't think the special effects were that bad either. While this is no perfect movie, I would have to give it 3 out of 4 stars for being entertaining. I don't imagine it will hold up well over time but for anyone who likes to see the Rock act and Karl Urban be a bad ass, I would recommend this movie.