Doomsday è qui! Ma purtroppo non ci ucciderà tutti...
Dopo il pregevole
The Descent,
Neil Marshall pensa bene di dirigere un filmone di medio budget come
Doomsday, producendo una delle peggiori zozzerie che il cinema ricordi.
Nel 2000-e-rotti un virus letale decide che la
Scozia è un posto tanto degno quanto qualunque altro per manifestarsi. Prontamente, e con un eccesso di umanità, l'intera regione viene isolata e lasciata morire.
Qualche decennio dopo un nuovo focolaio scoppia a
Londra e le misure del governo sono drastiche quanto insensate: allagare tutto, sterminare mezza popolazione (cosa che consoliderà il loro potere -
EHU? WHAT THE FUCK?!) ed inviare una squadra composta da quella pataccona di
Rhona Mitra - già figlia di una scozzese e che ha un occhio di vetro bionico sempre buono per simpatici scherzi tra amici - ed una manciata di fessi sacrificabili al centro della prima epidemia.
Quel che infatti è stato a tutti taciuto è che il Scozia ci sono dei sopravvissuti (e te lo dico: da dove venivano gli Highlanders?) che forse sono diventati immuni grazie alla cura sviluppata da un noto
siensiato (nothing less than
Malcolm McDowell, per dire in che mani si erano messi) rimasto intrappolato nella zona di quarantena.
Troveranno una serie di comunità che compensano con l'entusiasmo giovanile le loro pecche organizzative: tutti cercheranno immancabilmente di ucciderli (e loro non li deluderanno, morendo da veri pirla) finché la nostra eroina non verrà posta di fronte ad una terribile verità:
non ce l'ha solo lei, al mondo! 
No, un momento: la rivelazione verteva sul fatto che l'immunità è naturale, e non esiste alcuna cura. Ovviamente ciò non impedirà a nessuno di consegnare una tizia immune ai malvagi governanti, che si suppone ne abuseranno fino a tirarle fuori la cura dal sangue. Col senno di poi, non proprio un finale edificante, se vogliamo...
Eppure la sola trama - pur cretinotta forte - non rende giustizia dell'aberrante stupidità del film: i dialoghi consistono interamente di sagaci frasettine ad effetto, i blindati hanno vetri che vengono perforati da delle lance e tutte le vetture esplodono al minimo impatto.
Ancora meglio: Malcolm McDowell ha creato (perché gli tirava il culo) una intera società simil-medievale nei pressi di un antico castello, e non ci verranno risparmiati combattimenti con cavalieri in armatura, lancia e mazza ferrata! A bilanciare ciò, la
società post-grunge che imperversa in città: migliaia di
thug presi di peso e controvoglia da
Mad Max, dediti ad ogni sorta di violenza su se stessi e sugli altri (buono il barbecue di invasore!)
Questi loschi figuri sono degnamente guidati dal grande
Sol, che è fin d'ora il mio nuovo idolo assoluto: si tratta infatti di un feroce capo-curva dalle dubbie capacità espressive ma da grande entusiasmo, ricordando in tutto e per tutto il mitico
Zed del
secondo Scuola di Polizia.
Questo soggettone deve le sue doti di trascinatore di folle anche alle sue abilità artistiche: il balletto che inizia con
Good Thing dei
Fine Young Cannibals è uno dei momenti più trash della storia del cinema. No, sul serio: si fatica a crederci. Non che l'inseguimento della
bentley si piazzi molto sotto, a dire il vero...
Regia inetta, scadente sotto ogni altro punto di vista, va anche ricordato come il primo film in cui Rhona non si spoglia (che dire: l'avranno chiamata per le capacità attoriali...) In compenso c'è
Bob Hoskins, se vi piace il genere!
Voto: 1.
io-me ora sente stu-u-u-pi-do! io-me adesso amputa testa dolente! Trashometro
® 8/10:
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Hoskins, Bob
Nome di battesimo: Hoskins, Robert William
Data di nascita: 26 October 1942
Altezza: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Coniuge: Linda Banwell::(1982 - present) 2 children, Jane Livesey::(1967 - 1978) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Bob Hoskins was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was living after being evacuated as a result of the heavy bombings. Growing up, Hoskins received only limited education and he left school at 15, but with a passion for language and literature instilled by his former English teacher. A regular theatre-goer, Hoskins dreamed of starring on stage, but before he could do so he had to work odd jobs for a long time to make ends meet. His acting career started out more by accident than by design, when he accompanied a friend to watch some auditions, only to be confused for one of the people auditioning, getting a script pushed into his hands with the message "You're next". He got the part and acquired an agent. After some stage success, he expanded to television with roles in television series such as "Villains" (1972) and "Thick as Thieves" (1974). In the mid-'70s, he started his film career, standing out when he performed alongside Richard Dreyfuss in John Byrum's Inserts (1974) and in a smaller part in Richard Lester's Royal Flash (1975). Hoskins broke through in 1978 in Dennis Potter's mini TV series, "Pennies from Heaven" (1978), playing "Arthur Parker", the doomed salesman. After this, a string of high-profile and successful films followed, starting with his true major movie debut in 1980's The Long Good Friday (1980) as the ultimately doomed "Harold Shand". This was followed by such works as The Cotton Club (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), which won him an Oscar nomination as well as a BAFTA award, Cannes Film Festival and Golden Globe), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Golden Globe nomination), Mermaids (1990), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Felicia's Journey (1999) and Enemy at the Gates (2001). Hoskins has always carefully balanced the riches of Hollywood with the labor of independent film, though leaning more towards the latter than the former. He works at smaller projects such as Shane Meadows' debut 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997), in which he starred as "Allen Darcy". Besides this, he found time to direct, write and star in The Raggedy Rawney (1988), as well as direct and star in Rainbow (1995), and contributing to HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" (1989) and Tube Tales (1999) (TV).
Trivia random: In his earlier years before acting he wound up looking after camels in Syria and later packing fruit on a kibbutz in Israel, among many other odd jobs.
Citazione random: The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a f**kin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F**kin' nightmare. F**kin' idiots.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Mitra, Rhona
Data di nascita: 9 August 1976
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Parents were Antony Mitra (Bengali Indian) and Nora (Irish). They divorced in 1984.
Citazione random: "I can't sit still. That's why I'm very difficult in a relationship. Men get jealous of me traveling - they don't understand that just because I disappear on my own doesn't mean I'm going to shag someone else."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
McDowell, Malcolm
Nome di battesimo: Taylor, Malcolm John
Data di nascita: 13 June 1943
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Coniuge: Kelley McDowell::(12 November 1991 - present) 2 children, Mary Steenburgen::(29 September 1980 - 1 October 1990) (divorced) 2 children, Margot Bennett::(21 April 1975 - 15 September 1980) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943, in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Charles and Edna Taylor. His father was a publican and an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways and fought against it. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life, so Malcolm was packed off to boarding school at 11. He attended the Tunbridge Boarding School and the Cannock House School in Eltham, Kent. At school he was beaten with the slipper or cane every Monday for his waywardness. Whilst at school, he decided that he wanted to become an actor; it was also around this time that his love for race cars began. He attended the London Academy of Music and Art to study acting. Meanwhile, he worked at his parents' pub but lost his job when the pub went bankrupt, his father drinking all the profits. He then had a variety of jobs, from coffee salesman to messenger. His first big-screen role was in Poor Cow (1967), although his 2-minute scene was ultimately cut from the completed film. Soon after, he caught the attention of director Lindsay Anderson who cast him in the role of a rebellious student in his film If.... (1968). The film catapulted Malcolm to stardom in Britain but failed everywhere else. He was so enthusiastic about the film's success that he wanted to do another right away. He began writing what would become the semi-autobiographical O Lucky Man! (1973). Meanwhile, he starred as the infamous Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork Orange (1971), a role that caused him to be typecast as a manic psychopathic villain. In early 1976, he spent nearly a year working on what would later be one of the most infamous films of all time, the semi-pornographic Caligola (1979), financed by Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione. Around that time, the British film industry collapsed, forcing him to flee to America to continue working. His first American film was Time After Time (1979). He then did Britannia Hospital (1982), the last part of Lindsay Anderson's working-class trilogy that started with If.... (1968). In the mid-1980s, the years of alcohol and drug abuse, including $1000 a week on cocaine, caught up with him. Years of abuse took its toll on him; his black hairs were now grey. Looking older than he really was, nobody wanted to cast him for playing younger roles. The big roles having dried up, he did many B-rated movies. The 1990s were kinder to him, though. In 1994, he was cast as Dr. Soran, the man who killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was back on the track, playing villains again. He played another in the classic BBC mini-series, "Our Friends in the North" (1996). Today, with more than 100 films under his belt, he is one of the greatest actors in America. He still doesn't have American citizenship, but he likes the no-nonsense American ways. He currently resides in the northern suburb of Los Angeles.
Trivia random: His performance as Alex De Large in A Clockwork Orange (1971) is ranked #68 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".
Citazione random: He didn't want me at first, told me about the big-name actor he could get, how he was taller than I was - I'm five eight and a half - but I said, 'That's nothing, I can stand on a box.'
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Mad Max (1979)
Interceptor
Regista: George Miller Scrittore: George Miller,
Byron Kennedy Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action
Valutazione: 6.9/10 (28540 voti)
Durata: 93 min
Paese: Australia
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie. Where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.
Trivia random: The auto accident scene was made as realistic as possible, thanks to director's George Miller's experience as a medical doctor.
Citazione random: Grease Rat: Like the sign says, "speed's just a question of money. How fast can you go?"
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
Scuola di polizia II: prima missione
Regista: Jerry Paris Scrittore: Neal Israel,
Pat Proft Genere: Comedy, Crime, Comedy
Valutazione: 4.8/10 (10652 voti)
Durata: 97 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists?
Trivia random: Though Tim Kazurinsky is called Sweetchuck in the movie, in the credits his character name is "Merchant"
Citazione random: Lt. Mauser: Hey, wait a minute! My hands are stuck with my head! What the fuck?
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Marshall, Neil (I)
Data di nascita: 25 May 1970
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Axelle Carolyn::(31 October 2007 - present)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Member of the unofficial "Splat Pack," a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for the modern wave of directors making brutally violent horror films. The other "Splat Pack" members are Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Greg Mclean, Eli Roth, James Wan, Leigh Whannell & Rob Zombie.
Citazione random: "...the reason horror films are being made is that distributors and financiers see a way of making easy money. The genre is riding a wave of popularity that it hasn't enjoyed in a long time. It has broken out of the hardcore audience section and is reaching a much more broad-based audience."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Doomsday (2008)
Doomsday - Il giorno del giudizio
Regista: Neil Marshall Scrittore: Neil Marshall Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action
Valutazione: 6.1/10 (24110 voti)
Durata: USA:113::(uncut version) min
Paese: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Trivia random: Alexander Siddig, playing the British PM, is the real-life nephew of Malcolm McDowell, playing a leading figure among the Scots in this picture.
Citazione random: Kane: Abandon any such hope.::Eden Sinclair: No.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
Una sfilata di Victoria's Secret con un bimbetto inquietante sullo sfondo.
- così come il secondo film), mi risulta un po' difficile affrontare questo nuovo oggetto con l'adeguato distacco critico, e quindi mi limiterò a sottolineare alcuni difetti, senza soffermarmi troppo sui meriti che eredita dal materiale di partenza. 