Doom is one of those movies designed to appeal to teenaged boys. Hollywood executives think that teenage boys are the key to big box office, so they go out of their way to create this type of stuff - movies based on comic books, extreme sports and video games - to attract them. I, if you haven't guessed by now, am not a teenager, nor am I a boy (check the logo). So for me, a thirty-something woman, Doom was doomed from the start.

I've never played the video game so I can't make any comparisons. In the movie, a group of Marines led by the aptly named Sarge (The Rock) go to Mars because some Alien-esque thing has killed a group of scientist stationed there. One of the scientist, an archeologist, Sam Grimm (Rosamund Pike) is the estranged sister of one of the marines, Reaper (Karl Urban). She's uncovered some interesting evidence about life on Mars. It turns out that the original Martians were super-human thanks to an extra set of chromosomes. However, that extra chromosome turned some of the Martians into monsters; monsters strong enough to take out all of the super-human Martians. What does all of this mean? Not much but everyone runs down a lot of dark corridors with guns blazing, killing everything in sight. Sometimes people end up getting killed twice because apparently some of the more-super-than-the-super-human-super-monsters have a problem staying dead.

Let's be honest. No one going to see Doom is going for the story or the well-developed characters. Consequentially, the makers of Doom didn't really spend too much time on pesky little things like plot, characters, dialog and story. The teens that play Doom apparently like to shoot things up and that is what the characters in Doom do. They shoot things. And that's all they do.
A few ladies I know are considering seeing Doom because of The Rock. Ladies, don't do it. Your fantasizes of a buff sexy Rock wearing to nothing while wielding his big gun will not be fulfilled.

If you're a fan of the game, play it and take a pass on the movie.