So under the "best" post apocalyptic movies was one called Doomsday (2008). There was a disease that broke out in London and they isolated all the infected people to the north and put up a wall stretching east/west all across the UK. So I'm thinking this is going to be like 28 Days Later or I Am Legend kind of movie (since they were in the same list). Some 25 years later a satellite takes pictures of the zombie zone and sees people actually still alive. Now add that to the fact that the disease just broke out again in the south they're thinking that the northern folks have a cure or are immune. Time to send someone in to find some doctor that had been working on the vaccine before he was lost behind the wall. Okay, interesting set up and you have me interested. Unfortunately, that didn't last for long.
So the head bad-ass chick takes a team over the wall. As a side note, she had lost her right eye as a child in the initial riots when they closed the wall, but was saved by a military helicopter when her mom threw her on there at the last minute. Now all grown up she has this electronic eye thing as a replacement that she can pop out and control with her watch. No really.
First town they head into and suddenly I'm watching Mad Max. Crazy people, motorcycles, fire spewing, the whole thing. All hell breaks loose, their armored tank things are taken out by Molotov cocktails and bats and crossbows. Yeah. And they're all captured, but they eventually escape from these dickheads (after they've cooked and eaten one the the military dudes after a big display and stage show). They are helped escaping by the doctor's daughter on, are you ready for this, a steam train, because those suckers can go from zero to walking speed in no time flat!
After traveling cross some beautiful British countrysides, they have to abandon the train (sniff) in what looks like an abandoned military supply bunker and go the rest of the way on foot. In the forest they are looking for the doctor when they come across his guard. On horses. In armor. Oh great, now we're in fricking Camelot and guess which crazy nutbag thinks he's King Arthur? Yep, the doctor they were looking for. And now they're prisoners again and do the whole escape thing, but only after she kills some Goliath armored dude in the arena. And also they find out there's no cure. The people only survived by natural selection.
So now they're being chased from the castle and they had back to that bunker again. She finds a manifest and starts looking for useful things. Satellite phone? Check. Mercedes Benz. Check. Weapons and ammo. Nope. As the Knights of the Stupid Table break into the bunker, they escape out the backside in the brand new Mercedes. Wide open roads is all they see as they head back towards the wall. Until...
Here come the morons from Mad Max town, who have caught up to them (?) in a grand selection of vehicles that you would expect in a post apocalypse. Among them are:
- A beat up old cop car with "bastards" spray painted across the hood
- Several motorcycles with antlers and skeletons on them
- A Volkswagen bug with what looked like one of those fan things off an everglades boat
- A plumber's truck with "your shit is our bread and butter" written on the side
- A bus with chain link fence all around it that shoots ninja star like projectiles
- A Studebaker
Yeah, all of these caught up to the good guys. I did point out that Mercedes was brand new right? Just checking. And on a side note, it's been 25 years...where did they get the gasoline? So this ridiculous chase/fight scene ensues with people jumping into the Mercedes through the windows and other general modes of attack. They fight them off one by one until the crazy leader is finally killed. She calls them on that satellite phone she found (and charged in the car so that avoided a plot problem before I even asked). A helicopter comes and only wants the immune doctor's daughter. He makes this speech about holding out on the cure until the riffraff dies away and then he swoops in with a cure and becomes a hero. She records it on her camcorder/GPS/Ipod eyeball thingy which she uses to ruin him politically.
The movie ends with her returning to her own kind. The police? The military? No, she goes back to Mad Max town with the head of their slain leader and tells them to "eat this". I guess she becomes their queen. I won't be watching this twice.
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