Doom

Guest writing for Sketch Element today is the ghost of his twelve-year-old former self.

Doom is a zombie movie sort of based on the game. The Rock plays Sarge, a grizzled combat leader who only wants to follow his orders. The Zombies are created because the scientists on Mars experimented with some DNA which was supposed to make them super-human, but mostly it just turns them into Zombies. In the game, it's just demons from the slipgates the scientists are working on that the soldiers are fighting.

One of the best quotes was when one of the soldiers picks up his giant gun and says, "Daddy's Home." One of the best scenes is when the Grimm character has to move through the tunnels in the Martian facility and we get around 5 minutes of first person perspective -- just like the game. It's awesome -- the gun moves around like it does in the game, and he shoots everything that moves, and the blood splattering is just like the game.

Right, so it's a sci-fi action zombie movie, in essence. Not a great one -- it's kind of slow here and there and there were times when I really wanted the action to get going -- but, overall, it delivered what I expected.