Doom: Annihilation is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and HD Digital.
The writing seemed to be on the wall for Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s Doom: Annihilation after current Doom game developer Bethesda put out a statement distancing themselves from the project. Released straight to home video, this second crack at a cinematic Doom incorporates a few more elements of the game lore, but at the cost of having to exist in the first place. Boring action, uninteresting characters, and a permeating sense of cheapness make Doom: Annihilation a chore to watch.
The broad strokes of Doom: Annihilation’s plot are going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s played a game in the series. Or watched the previous film adaptation from 2005. Or watched Event Horizon. Or… you get it. A bunch of space marines get called to a space research station that the space government has lost space communication with. Wouldn’t you know it, once they arrive, it turns out that the portal covered in Sumerian runes they’ve been studying there doesn’t connect to an alien utopia, but straight to Hell... which has broken loose in the station. It’s not like the Doom franchise has ever been known for a well-developed plot, but the laziness of the storytelling here is hard to overstate. At one point, when trying to puzzle out what they’re up against, one of the marines exclaims “it’s aliens!” You’ll be hard-pressed not to hear that line with a capital “A” and wish you were watching James Cameron’s masterclass in sci-fi action instead.
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