Doomsday and Rhona Mitra

Move over Ms. Biel, there's a whole bunch of Wow now playing at your local theater. First the important stuff. Oh yeah, Rhona hit the gym in a serious way for this one and spends most of the movie in a black tank top and some very tight pants to make sure we all know it. Wirter/director Neil Marshall does a fantastic job of delivering on one well framed profile shot after another, the zenith of which is when Rhona is staring down a rearing horse which becomes nearly invisible next to her stunning silhouette. As for the movie itself, it's 28 Days later meets The Road Warrior with plot holes becoming exponentially larger as the movie progresses. By the end there's really nowhere for the story to go that isn't wildly, shoot it with a tranquilizer gun, tag it and make sure you're  at a safe distance before it comes to, implausible so be sure to leave your brain at the concession stand. A shame since Marshall's earlier The Descent was just all kinds of creepy and had much potential. Not much in the way of acting or dialogue though and in many shots Malcom McDowell's nose looks just like a wayward new potato of W.C. Fields proportions. Many of the action scenes are poorly shot and/or edited so it's difficult to tell what's going on, but there are exceptions that more than make up for it. All in all, not a very good movie but like Ms. Biel in Blade 3, Rhona completely dominates the film and she gets top billing. Perhaps a soon to be female action star for which we've always hoped and of whom we can all be proud. She gets top billing in next year's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans which is also quite promising but as the film is directed by Patrick Tatopolus, once a production designer, one of the guys responsible for that so-called Godzilla from '98, Battlefield Earth and designer for the previous Underworld films… I'll just let that one play out before passing any judgment. Also, Doomsday has lots of blood, severed limbs, heads and an exploding rabbit. Really.

BB.