Reviews

If you follow anything military, this movie will come up in your feed.

There gear looks pretty good, the idea is sound but the script seems rushed and uneducated. A special purpose team is formed with top military personnel from various allied countries. Most of the movie appears to have been filmed in the desert around the western US, Nevada/Arizona/California. Dissimilar to the hills and mountains in the Middle East.

The script is poor in the fact that in the first op one of the characters gets his side arm taken from him. That would not have happened as the POI would have been dropped to the ground by this point and restrained. Some of the operations happen during the day, covert ops often take place at night. It's the desert, high sun equals high visibility. The team would have been spotted on the side of the range the minute they walked over the crest. Then the team proceeds to trade shots for a prolonged period of time expelling all the ammo reserves. With all their gear one would imagine they'd have grenades or some other counter measures besides just their rifles and side arms.

In all the movie seems rushed and not thoughtfully presented. Regardless of poor budget or not the movie could have been much more and had the possibility of much further potential. The actors have potential and some have been in other films successfully. Yet a script is not the actors fault.

The only element of the actual game was the BFG9000. As for Space Marines, the only real marine is the main character Lt Joan. She is depicted as an extreme badass and clearly shows military aptitude in combat while the rest of the team gets flailed around like rag dolls. As for other elements of the game. In 2016 Doom released a version where the Doom character, often referred to as the Doom Slayer, gets sent into hell to whip the asses of the hellion heretics. So if this movie had a sequel it would be a leading point.

All in all it was good use of 1.5hrs for an action flick with a theme losely based off the game series.