DOOM ANNIHILATION - MOVIE REVIEW

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This movie was released this month, first of October to be precise and if you check the ratings online, you will be disappointed. I still went ahead to watch it anyway and yes, I'm a little a bit unimpressed. I love science fiction because I always wish the advance technology they make is real. Doom annihilation isn't limited to the technologies alone, the movie made us understand there is another world with aliens in it and they were the first occupants of earth. Literally, we chased them away. They have high techs, too which includes a travel machine. It won't make you travel to the past or future; just see it as the fastest means of transportation. You can get to India from Nigeria in just five seconds. They want us to believe this and at the end, they made it look like it's bullshit. This brings me to my first observation.

Now, what the hell happened here?

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We saw this man and most of these people die. They were working on the testing machine and after sending people who weren't able to travel, Dr. Betruger decided to go for the final test. A strange thing happened afterwards that brought out the aliens. They killed almost everyone in the building before a rescue team came over. The team never knew there were aliens there; they just went there to protect the tools the scientists were working with. Those scientists were staring at Joan Dark in the image above - the only agent who made it to the end. Yes, all of them died except her.

They are trying to tell us three things here:

• Joan Dark went into the time machine and everything we saw from the beginning to the end happened in the machine. It wasn't a travel machine - it's just a tool predicting the future or the only place you can travel to is the aliens' world. Since they were also expecting Dr. Betruger to come back with her, then this isn't entirely true because I don't seem to know how to place him in Joan's story.

• Joan Dark was punished for treason, so she was sent with her team to the planet the scientists were working. They were all placed in a sleeping machine to sleep for months during the time of travel. Everything that happened in the movie was a dream, Joan's dream. The Dr. Betruger they were expecting turned out to be the leader of the alliens and it killed all of them all. Joan will wake up and try to stop the scientists from continuing with the project. The dream will serve as a warning.

• It was all bullshit. Everything that happened was real. They died and resurrected when Joan and Dr. Betruger went into the machine.

For the first time in a long while, I agree with the ratings online. A movie should keep us in suspense not confuse us. They tried to make us expect more, make us wonder what had happened, but instead of feeling this way, I got confused. There is no better explanation to what happened. One minute they all died, the next minute, only Joan and some scientists were seen. Perhaps Joan's memory was erased and only the things that happened in the machine were the only things left in her brain. I'm sure she must have known when she entered the machine. In my quest to understand what happened, I searched online if there were other doom movies related to this. I thought this one is just a continuation of what happened in the previous ones. It turned out there are others, but they aren't related. Doom annihilation is just a slightly improved version of the others.

I'm not sure it was released in the cinemas. I had to download it instead of seeing it somewhere. Well, it's good this way. I won't want to pay to see a movie just to get confused. The actors are good - they did all they were asked to do. The writing is just poor. The director and producers should better come up with a better explanation. There is a thin line between suspense and confusion. I will settle with the later for this movie.

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One more thing; the aliens looks like groot. Groot with lesser sticks and red fire in its eye. There are many fictional creatures that also looks like this. I wonder when we will start seeing something unique - something different from what we've already seen. If the alien were once occupying earth as they claimed, they should at least look like humans. We've seen great movies with aliens and there physical attributes can be justified. These ones can pass for demons. The fire they throw with their mouth and hands is a turn off, too. They were painted to be very intelligent and still act like animals at the sight of humans. They could have easily killed Joan, but they all went after her like morons. How the hell did they take control of the agents' technology if they were that dumb? Well, I guess they will all come back to earth since we were kept in suspense.

I should commend Joan for her great acting. She and her fellow teammates. They made the movie interesting and they acted well as agents. The part I love most was when she used the big gun. One shot from it was killing the aliens unlike the normal guns with bullets. Trust me, they will make you like the movie.

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You can watch the movie and tell me what you think. Perhaps you will understand and appreciate it better. Let me know in the comment section what you think about it. This is where I drop my pen. Let's meet again for another movie review. Until then, I still remain @afolwalex.

MovieDB URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/520901-doom?language=en-US

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