This movie is clearly the bastard child of Road Warrior and Escape From New York. You could even consider this a sequel, it’s so close to the same stuff those films were made of. Just replace nuclear war and rising crime with something a little more contemporary like a deadly virus, but keep everything else pretty much the same and you got Doomsday. It’s set in the near future where a “Reaper Virus” is killing people within Scotland at a rapid pace. The government responds by walling it off and putting the whole region under quarantine. 25 years later the virus pops up in London and the government sends a team back into Scotland to find out why there are survivors in there. Did they find a cure? Well Scotland has sunk into chaos and the survivors are split into two camps. One are the city-dwelling punks that look they turned the Road Warrior movie into a religion, and the the other camp lives in an ancient castle and totally reverted to a medieval way of life. There are sword fights, cannibalism, gladiator matches, crazy tattoo chicks, and a bad-ass car chase that could have easily had Mel Gibson behind the wheel.
Overall it’s a fine movie for what it is. Fans of Road Warrior should eat it up.
