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I went to see Doom for the same reason I saw S.W.A.T. which is just as a mindless waste of time with my mates. I knew that I wasn't going to be impressed about any plot twists, but who cares? This is not a movie that was made to do that so I won't judge it so. However, there is little left to compliment the film. I must admit, it was very clever to use the first person view borrowed from the game but this was actually a little disappointing. The camera was jerky, which is understandable but for a soldier, there was very little looking at the enemy. Throughout the whole movie, the camera angles were terrible; rarely focusing on the exciting parts and showing only split-second images of the action coupled by several minutes of a panicking woman who seemed totally incapable of thinking for a scientist. A little sexist, but The Rock is the real worry. He played his character perfectly, don't get me wrong, but his character was incredibly annoying. Given the characters were made super intelligent, it is a little strange how stupid they are. Given I went to see the action, there should have been more of it, rather than snippets followed by the survivors walking through the scene saying, "Dear me, whatever happened here?"

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of this movie: You may be hesitant to see this movie at all. After all, many people remain faithful to the radio series, read the books cover to cover a squillion times and think the TV series was alright. First, the bad news. Even putting aside the poor way Zaphod's two heads and three arms were portrayed, Sam Rockwell just isn't a Beeblebrox. Many of the jokes, including the popular entry on Vogons in the guide, were left uncompleted from the original stories and so weren't as funny. Now, the good news. Stephen Fry was the book. Really, he WAS the book. Martin Freeman did such a good job, that Arthur Dent could pass off as a real person. The Warwick Davis/Alan Rickman Marvin was simply tremendous and could not have been done better. Given that Douglas Adams himself wrote this script, this should appeal to the fans and the unhitch-hiked alike. See also, VOGONS, ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX and CUSTARD