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Avg. Critic Score: 34 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    For a big-screen disposable, Doom has a few jolts, a few good laughs and an attractive female lead to whom you want to say, "What's a nice girl like you doing on a Mars like this?" Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Justin Chang

    It's really not all that bad. Ultra-derivative bigscreen transplant of one of the most successful (and controversial) games ever made plays like a mutant cross between a biotech thriller and a zombie movie, with all the alien autopsies, blood-gushing protuberances and meaningless scientific jargon that come with the territory. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly |

    By hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Plot, character development and dialogue are so sparse that the screenwriters are fortunate they're not paid by the word. But this basic approach doesn't render it ineffectual. There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    Shows less human dimension than the new Wallace and Gromit movie. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    A loud, standard-issue sci-fi action film that has a confusing mission. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    Like most movies based on games, this film appears to have been quite literally doomed from the start. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Watching Doom is like visiting Vegas and never leaving your hotel room. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    This claustrophobic mess of a movie offers only carnage. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Bloody and gory. Not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the movie -- based on a first-person-shooter video game -- includes loads of shooting, which leads to frequent bloody wounds, dismemberments, and explosions. The marines curse repeatedly (they're especially fond of the f-word and "hell"), the monsters roar, attack, and generally look ugly. One marine anticipates going on leave, where he will have sex with "she-males." When a young marine takes a drug, a veteran rebukes him for being irresponsible. Monsters are dispatched horrifically. One marine is beheaded, another slammed against walls and ceiling, and still another turns into a monster and kills himself (being Christian, he crosses himself first) by slamming his head into an unbreakable window. One character in a wheelchair is missing his lower body, explained as the result of a molecular transportation accident.
  • Families can talk about the value of following orders, even when they seem wrong: does the Kid do the right thing by refusing to kill civilians who might be infected? Is Sarge right to follow orders no matter what? And, though the sister resents her brother's choice to become a soldier, how does the film suggest her dedication to science might also be misplaced?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Based on a first person shooter video game, the movie is primarily comprised of shooting, blowing up, and blood-letting.
  • sex false3 Sex: With all the killing going on, sex is secondary, though one marine refers early on to a liaison with "she-males."
  • language false5 Language: Repeated f-word.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: The film promotes the video game by its very existence.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Marines use drugs to enhance violent performance.
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