Doomsday 4K 2008 Theatrical Cut Ultra HD 2160p

United Kingdom, 2007. An outbreak of a deadly disease caused by a virus known as the Reaper kills hundreds of thousands of people. The British government, in desperation, evacuates everyone it can from the infected area and then surrounds the area with a wall to prevent the virus from spreading. Thirty years later, the wall is still in place and the victims of the disease have long been forgotten. Suddenly, the virus breaks free again, and to find a possible cure, the government has to send a special unit led by Major Eden Sinclair into the infected area.

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It's become a tradition to infect the United Kingdom with exotic infections - this time it's the Reaper virus. No biting zombies, spitting blood substitute directly into the cell: the sick quietly die, covered with bubbles. That's enough to start the apocalypse. “Reaper” began to mow down the Kingdom from the north, so the island blocked off the concrete fence exactly in the middle, hopeless Scotland locked on a strict quarantine and for thirty years about this part of the country forgotten, until the sick bubble citizens did not begin to appear in London. Then the special services, grasping for the last chance, send an expedition for serum to Glasgow, where, according to satellite intelligence, some life suddenly flickered. Major Sinclair (Rona Mitra), an energetic special forces officer with a detachable eye-camera for easy shooting from around corners, is called in to lead the squad. Eye-camera embedded in the girl very conveniently: on closer examination, life behind the wall turned out to be a booming mutation of thrash movies of the 80's with a little admixture of Eli Roth and 28 Days Later (2002).
Doomsday (2008) is the third film by Neil Marshall, an ambitious bald man with a Mephistophelian beard, who for the last five years has been in charge of such a neglected plot as B-fiction. It's an important mission, somewhere even Don Quixotic, and always guarantees an enthusiastic reception from a certain part of the audience - not many, but able to make a good noise. In his debut Dog Soldiers (2002) the creative chutzpah, planted on a dietary budget, was still clanking its teeth. However, the next experience, where the budget turned out to be bigger, was overpraised quite shamelessly. Eccentric desire to do “thrash” not always, alas, accompany the same eccentric ideas, and with them at Marshall, as shown in the horror Descent (2005), a clear deficit. Be that as it may, the stakes have risen, no money was spared for “Doomsday”, and the deficit of ideas was compensated for in the most failsafe way - rented someone else's. The concrete fence dividing England into two zones - “normal” and “quarantine” - was written out, as well as the disturbing synthesizer music, from Escape From New York (1981). Motorized columns of punks driving around the extinct Glasgow on non-normative automobiles were used in Mad Max's Doomsday (1979). Knights and medieval fights without rules copied, it seems, from Legend (1985). The evil virus was infected in “28 Days Later”. Dickish technologies were copied in Hostel (2005).
Such an unapologetic medley at first causes some consternation, quickly passing into a stage of joyful idiocy, when, having dealt with the punks, the director launches into the frame of the reliable Malcolm McDowell, who played in “Judgment Day” cynical virologist Scotsman, disappointed in progress. During thirty years of quarantine, the scientist has crossed over to feudal lords and now stages gladiatorial fights in an ornate castle left over from the filming of “Robin Hood.” If you do not run away from the session in the first forty minutes, for which Marshall demonstrated on the screen real pearls of durnovkusii, the society of good old McDowell will be quite satisfied - the old man, in fact, still in great shape. And having gathered your will in a fist for twenty minutes more get a splendid bonus - a good final car race, after which the thought of wasted time and money will drill your brain is not so painful.

And on Judgment Day, when these expenses will certainly be asked about, you can at least refer to the love of English cars and good speed.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (84.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: FALC 2.0
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by David J. Moore - Author of the Book World Gone Wild (2024))

Info Subtitles

English SDH.