Reviews

After seeing the very low score from IMDb and seeing that The Rock was nominated for the worst actor I had the lowest of expectations for the movie. I had played DooM3, the video game the movie was based from, and I didn't like it either. So, I was prepared for 100minutes of pain.

Well, the movie just sucked me in. A wonderful mess. Something I had never seen before, really. It is similar to Resident Evil (1, not 2). But this one has faster action, cooler actors and better effects/scenes. At the end I was very impressed how much I had enjoyed it.

Karl Urban excels. Rosamund Pike looks like a mistake here. And the Rock... well, he has got to be my favorite crazy-head.

I'm not a 14yrs old video-gamer. In 99% of the bad movies I totally agree with the IMDb voters. But DooM is nowhere near as low as the average says. Its a movie that at least deserves respect for being different. And if you are willing to experience new things and are tired from all those Oscar winners, you'll appreciate DooM.

PS: Its not a 10, more like an 8. But I want its rating to go higher.

24th Day looks like the typical low budget movie with only 2 actors (the others appear for less than 20 seconds each) in a constant dialog. But Tony Piccirillo has created something that no other movie has gotten near to. This is the most educative movie I have ever seen. After you see it, at least for the next couple of days, your point of view will be changed.

Dan (Marsden is as excellent as he was in Bella Mafia) is a handsome and cocky guy. He meets Tom (Speedman is cut for the role of the suffering one) and they both go to Tom's house probably to have sex. Only Tom had other plans for them. Being HIV positive, Tom wants to find out if Dan was the one who infected him... and if yes, make him pay. He has a way to prove it.

The movie has many strong points: it is very (Dan's favorite word) believable; it has a high influence on its viewers; the directing, the dialogs and the overall mood are world class; ultimately it touches a subject of the highest importance: HIV from the inside.

Be prepared for a high emotional impact. This is neither X-Men nor The Godfather, the subject is neither fictional nor away from us. And the fact that it deals only with 2 men in an isolated room brings it as close to the human nature and soul as possible.