Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
A group of UAC Marines responds to a distress call from a top-secret scientific base on Phobos, a Martian moon, only to discover it's been overrun by demons.
Doom: Annihilation is a low-budget, direct-to-video reboot that fails to capture what made the source material iconic. The plot is a generic sci-fi horror corridor crawler with little tension or originality beyond the video game name. Acting is uniformly flat and unconvincing across the cast. Cinematography is functional at best — dark, cheap-looking sets with little visual flair. While the premise (marines vs. demons on Phobos) has inherent novelty from the IP, the execution is so by-the-numbers that it barely distinguishes itself from countless other B-grade sci-fi horror films. The ending is particularly weak, resolving abruptly and unsatisfyingly, leaving little reason for investment.