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* [[Babelsberg Studio|BPS Babelsberg Production Services GmbH]]
* Reaper Productions LLC
* Distant Planet Productions Ltd.<ref name="studios">{{cite web|url=https://www.dneg.com/show/doom/|title=Doom|first=|last=|work=DNEG.com|date=|access-date=April 3, 2022|url-status=live|archive-date=AprilMarch 319, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319073502/https://www.dneg.com/show/doom/}}</ref>
* Andrzej Bartkowiak Films
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| language = English
| budget = $60–70 million<ref name=BOM>{{cite Box Office Mojo|id= 0419706 |title= Doom (2005)|accessdate= November 24, 2021}}</ref><ref name="NUM"/>
| gross = $58.7 million<ref name="NUM">{{cite the numbers|id=Doom |title=Doom (2005)|access-date= November 24, 2021}}</ref>
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'''''Doom''''' is a 2005 [[Science fiction film|science fiction]]<ref name="Ebert"/>[[Action film|action]] [[Horror film|horror]] film directed by [[Andrzej Bartkowiak]]. Loosely based on the [[Doom (franchise)|video game series of the same name]] by [[id Software]], the film stars [[Karl Urban]], [[Rosamund Pike]], [[Razaaq Adoti]], and [[Dwayne Johnson]] (credited as The Rock). In the film, marines are sent on a rescue mission to a facility on Mars, where they encounter demonic-like creatures.
 
After [[film rights]] deals with [[Universal Studios|Universal Pictures]] and [[Columbia Pictures]] expired, id Software signed a deal with [[Warner Bros.]] with the stipulation that the film would be [[green-light|greenlit]] within a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2005/12/03/id_software/page2.html |title=Interview with id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead (page two) |website=Tom's Games |access-date=June 25, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206004733/http://us.tomsgames.com/us/2005/12/03/id_software/page2.html|archive-date=December 6, 2008|first=David|last=Konow|date=December 3, 2005|publisher=Bestofmedia Group}}</ref> Warner Bros. lost the rights, which were subsequently given back to Universal, which started production in 2004. The film was an international [[co-production (media)|co-production]] of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
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==Plot==
In 2026, a [[wormhole]] portal, the Ark, to an ancient city on [[Mars]] is discovered deep below the [[Nevada desert]]. Twenty years later, the 85 personnel at the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility on Mars are attacked by an unknown assailant. Following a distress call sent by Dr. Carmack, a squad of eight [[United States Marine Corps|marines]] are sent to the research facility. The team includes [[squad leader]] Sgt. Asher "Sarge" Mahonin, "Duke", "Goat", "Destroyer", Portman, "Mac", a rookie ("Kid"), and John "Reaper" Grimm. They are sent on a search-and-destroy mission to Mars, with UAC only concerned with the retrieval of computer data from their anthropology, archeology, and [[Genetic engineering|genetics experiments]].
 
The team uses the Ark to reach Mars, ordering the Earth site on lockdown. Arriving on Mars, they are met by UAC employee "Pinky". Reaper finds his twin sister, Dr. Sam Grimm, and escorts her to retrieve the data. He learns that a dig site, where their parents were accidentally killed years earlier, was reopened and ancient skeletons of a [[humanoid]] race genetically enhanced with an artificial [[Chromosome abnormality|24th chromosome pair]] were discovered.
 
While searching for survivors in the facility, the marines find a traumatized and injured Dr. Carmack and escort him to the medical lab for treatment, but he later disappears. The marines shoot at an unknown creature in the genetics lab that leads them down into the facility's sewer, where it attacks and kills Goat. They kill the creature and take it to the medical lab, where Sam performs an [[autopsy]] and discovers that its organs are human. She and Duke witness Goat resurrecting and killing himself by smashing his head against a reinforced window. The two are attacked by a creature, trapwhich it, andthey soon deduce that it is a mutated Dr. Carmack.
 
The squad methodically tracks down and destroys several of the creatures, though Mac, Destroyer, and Portman die in the process. An angered Sarge kills the mutated Dr. Carmack. Sam, Reaper, and Sarge learn that UAC was experimenting on humans using the extra Martian Chromosome (C24) harvested from the remains of the ancient skeletons, but the mutants got loose, leading to the outbreak. Sam and Reaper try to convince Sarge that the creatures are humans from the facility, mutated by the C24 serum and that not all of those infected will fully transform into the creatures. Sam hypothesizes that some of those injected with C24 will develop superhuman abilities but retain their humanity, while others with a predisposition for violent or psychotic behavior will become creatures, a pattern she believes also happened with the Martians, who built the Ark to escape.
 
Some creatures use the Ark to reach Earth, where they slaughter or mutate the research staff. The marines, Sam, and Pinky follow, and Sarge orders the squad to sanitize the entire facility. When Kid informs Sarge that he found, but refuses to kill, a group of survivors, Sarge executes Kid for insubordination, leading to a standoff with an armed Pinky. The group is suddenly attacked by creatures who kill Duke and drag Sarge and Pinky away. Reaper is wounded by a ricocheting bullet. To prevent him from bleeding to death, Sam injects her brother with the C24 serum, despite his concern that his violent past predisposes him to transform into a creature.
 
Reaper regains consciousness and finds his wounds have healed and that Sam has gone missing. Using his new C24 superhuman abilities, he fights his way through the facility, even battling a mutated and monstrous Pinky before finding an unconscious Sam with Sarge, who has become infected and has killed the group of survivors Kid had previously found. Reaper and Sarge battle, both of them enhanced with superhuman powers. Reaper is able to gain the upper hand and throws Sarge through the Ark back to Mars along with a grenade, which destroys Sarge and the Mars facility. Reaper then carries his unconscious sister into the elevator and rides back up to the ground level in Nevada.
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{{Cast listing|
* [[Karl Urban]] as [[Doomguy#Film|John "Reaper" Grimm / Doomguy]]
* [[Dwayne Johnson]] as Sgt. Asher "Sarge" Mahonin. Johnson is credited on-screen as The Rock.▼
* [[Rosamund Pike]] as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Grimm
* [[Deobia Oparei]] as Roark "Destroyer" Gannon
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* [[Razaaq Adoti|Raz Adoti]] as Gregory "Duke" Schofield
* [[Richard Brake]] as Dean Portman
▲* [[Dwayne Johnson]] as Sgt. Asher "Sarge" Mahonin. Johnson is credited on-screen as The Rock.
* [[Dexter Fletcher]] as Marcus "Pinky" Pinzerowski
* [[Al Weaver]] as Mark "Kid" Dantalian
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==Release==
===Box office===
On its opening weekend, ''Doom'' debuted in 3,043 theaters and earned $15.5 million. In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $28.2 million and grossed $30.5 million internationally, grossing $58.7 million worldwide.<ref name="NUM"/>
 
===Critical response===
''Doom'' received negative reviews from critics.<ref name="negative reviews">{{cite web |url= https://geekculture.co/the-new-doom-annihilation-is-not-a-game-but-a-straight-to-video-reboot/ |title= The New Doom: Annihilation Is Not A Game But A Straight-To-Video Reboot |author= Germaine Wong |work= Geek Culture |date= March 12, 2019 |access-date= February 5, 2020 |url-status= live|archive-date=February 5, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200205235842/https://geekculture.co/the-new-doom-annihilation-is-not-a-game-but-a-straight-to-video-reboot/ }}</ref> On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of {{RT data|score}}, based on {{RT data|count}}137 reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The site's critical consensus states: "The FPS sections are sure to please fans of the video game, but lacking in plot and originality to please other moviegoers."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/doom|title=Doom (2005)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average rating of 34 out of 100, based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.metacritic.com/movie/doom |title= Doom Reviews |work= [[Metacritic]] |publisher= [[CBS Interactive]] |access-date= June 28, 2018 }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade B− on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= DOOM (2005) B- |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>
 
[[Roger Ebert]] said, "''Doom'' is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play."<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news |urllast= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doom-2005 |newspaper= [[Chicago Sun-Times]]Ebert |first= Roger |last= Ebert |author-link= Roger Ebert |date= October 20, 2005 |title= Doom |publisherurl= [[Chicago Sunhttps://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doom-Times]]2005 |access-date= June 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-date=March 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322081724/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doom-2005 |archive-date=March 22, 2021 |access-date=June 28, 2018 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |publisher=}}</ref> Rob Gonsalves gave it two stars, citing incoherent action sequences, flat and humorless characters, and poor acting: "Only Richard Brake, as the sleazy and duplicitous grunt Portman, gives a performance of any interest, and even that's on the level of caricature."<ref>{{cite web |last= Gonsalves |first= Rob |title= Movie Review: Doom|url= http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=13269&reviewer=416 |website= eFilmCritic |date= January 3, 2007 |publisher= HBS Entertainment |access-date= November 22, 2015 }}</ref> [[Kim Newman]] of [[Empire (film magazine)|''Empire'' magazine]] called it "Not quite as dreadful as ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse]]'', but that's hardly a major achievement."<ref>{{cite web |date= 1 January 2000 |author= Kim Newman |author-link= Kim Newman |title= Doom |url= https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/doom-review/ |website= Empire }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date= 21 October 2005 |last= Martel |first= Ned |title= Life, and Lots of Death, on Mars |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/movies/life-and-lots-of-death-on-mars.html |website= [[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529190523/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/movies/life-and-lots-of-death-on-mars.html |archive-date= 2015-05-29 |url-access= registration }}</ref> [[Justin Chang]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' gave the film a mixed review and was critical of Johnson’s performance but positive about the "tongue-in-cheek sensibility" and the faithful display of weapons from the game. In summary: "It's really not all that bad. Ultra-derivative bigscreen transplant of one of the most successful (and controversial) games ever made plays like a mutant cross between a biotech thriller and a zombie movie, with all the alien autopsies, blood-gushing protuberances and meaningless scientific jargon that come with the territory."<ref>{{cite web |date= 21 October 2005 |last= Chang |first= Justin |author-link= Justin Chang |title= Doom |url= https://variety.com/review/VE1117928623 |website= Variety |access-date= 21 June 2020 }}</ref>
 
Richard James Havis of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' wrote: "Plot, character development and dialogue are so sparse that the screenwriters are fortunate they're not paid by the word. But this basic approach doesn't render it ineffectual. There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault."<ref>{{cite web |date= 21 October 2005 |author= Richard James Havis |title= Doom |url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001349219 |website= [[The Hollywood Reporter]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051231060436/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001349219 |archive-date= 2005-12-31 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
Chris Carle at ''[[IGN]]'' gave it 3 out of 5 and called it "easily the best videogame-to-film adaptation yet", saying although it is not big on plot or characterization "it succeeds in the things it sets out to do".<ref>{{cite web |date= 20 October 2005 |author= Chris Carle |title= IGN: Doom Review |url= http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/658/658956p1.html |website=[[IGN]] |access-date= 2020-06-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051020005459/http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/658/658956p1.html |archive-date= 2005-10-20 |url-status= dead }} {{cite web |title= IGN: Doom Review |url= http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/658/658956p2.html |website= [[IGN]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051020005517/http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/658/658956p2.html |page=2 |archive-date= 2005-10-20 |url-status= dead |quote= Doom is made to resemble and glorify a videogame. It has some tight action sequences and some righteous kills, and it succeeds in the things it sets out to do. }}</ref>
 
====Other responses====
{{Anchor|Cast response|Other response}}
[[John Carmack]] (co-founder of id Software and co-creator of ''Doom'') spoke favorably of the film, stating, "I liked it. Nobody expects a video game movie to be Oscar material, but I thought it was a solid action movie with lots of fun nods to the gaming community."<ref>{{cite web |date= January 3, 2006 |author= Kikizo Staff |title= Kikizo {{!}} John Carmack Interview January 2006 |url= http://archive.videogamesdaily.com/features/id_johncarmack_interview_jan05.asp |website= archive.videogamesdaily.com }}</ref> [[John Romero]] declined to comment on the film in a 2018 WeAreDevelopers [[Q&A]] session.<ref>{{cite web |last1=WeAreDevelopers |title=DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBU34NZhW7I&t=38m02s |website=YouTube |access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> In 2009, [[Dwayne Johnson]] described the film as an example of "trying and failing" to do a good video game adaptation, and that it was a cautionary tale of what "not to do".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/2459007/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-honestly-discusses-infamous-doom-movie/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160417122911/http://www.mtv.com/news/2459007/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-honestly-discusses-infamous-doom-movie/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 17, 2016 |first=Stephen |last=Totilo |title=Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Honestly Discusses Infamous 'Doom' Movie |website=[[MTV News]]|publisher=[[MTV]] |date=March 13, 2009 |access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref>
 
In 2021, [[Rosamund Pike]] expressed embarrassment for not familiarizing herself with the source material, commenting, "I feel partly to blame in that respect because I think I failed just through ignorance and innocence to understand, to fully get a picture of what ''Doom'' meant to fans at that point. I wasn’t a gamer. I didn’t understand. If I knew what I knew now, I would have dived right into all of that and got fully immersed in it like I do now. And I just didn’t understand. I feel embarrassed, really."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/rosamund-pike-interview-doom/|title=Rosamund Pike Discusses Lessons Learned from the Failure of 'Doom': "I Feel Embarrassed"|first=Perri|last=Nemiroff|work=Collider|date=November 16, 2021|access-date=November 18, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=November 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118095454/https://collider.com/rosamund-pike-interview-doom/}}</ref>
 
On August 8, 2018, Internet critic and comedian [[Doug Walker (comedian)|Doug Walker]] posted a review of the film on the Channel Awesome YouTube channel for his show [[Nostalgia Critic]], heavily criticizing it. Some of his complaints are: the movie's consistent lack of faithfulness to the original source material, the cliché and unlikable characters, with the Marines either acting uncomfortably perverted, getting high, and cutting themselves for saying the name of Jesus in vain, the sister scientist of the main character being very disrespectful when being protected, and the unengaging plot. <ref name="Doom - Nostalgia Critic">{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Doug |title=Doom - Nostalgia Critic |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTAqi0T1PY |website=YouTube |publisher=Channel Awesome |access-date=18 January 2023}}</ref>
 
===Accolades===
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===Home media===
''Doom'' was released on [[VHS]], [[Universal Media Disc|UMD]], and [[DVD]] on February 7, 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/509524-are_you_buying_psp_movies|title=Are You Buying PSP Movies?|first= Brad|last=Brevet|work=Comingsoon.net|date=February 17, 2006|access-date=June 7, 2020|url-status=live|archive-date=November 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124204803/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/509524-are_you_buying_psp_movies}}</ref><ref name="DVD">{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20049/doom/|title=Doom|first=Ian|last=Jane|work=DVD Talk|date=February 6, 2006|access-date=June 7, 2020|url-status=live|archive-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607075423/https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20049/doom/}}</ref> [[HD DVD]] on April 26, 2006,<ref name="HD DVD">{{cite web|url= https://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/61/doom.html|title=Doom HD DVD Review|first=Peter|last=Bracke|work=High-Def Digest|date=April 25, 2006|access-date=June 7, 2020|url-status=live|archive-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200607080842/https://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/61/doom.html}}</ref> and on [[Blu-ray Disc]] on February 10, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Universal/Disc_Announcements/Universal_to_Bring_Doom_to_Blu-ray_this_February/2289 |title=Universal to Bring "Doom" to Blu-ray this February |date=November 26, 2008 |website=High Def Digest |access-date=November 30, 2008|first=Peter|last=Bracke|publisher=Internet Brands}}</ref> The DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray releases only feature the unrated extended cut, with no options for the theatrical cut.<ref name="DVD"/><ref name="HD DVD"/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/02/10/doom-blu-ray-review |title= Doom Blu-ray Review |first=R.L.|last=Shaffer|work= [[IGN]] |date=February 10, 2009|access-date=June 7, 2020|url-status=live|archive-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200607081524/https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/02/10/doom-blu-ray-review}}</ref> The extended cut runs 113 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Doom-Blu-ray/3157/|title=Doom Blu-ray (Unrated Extended Edition)|first=|last=|date=|access-date=August 14, 2022|url-status=live|archive-date=August 1415, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815000832/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Doom-Blu-ray/3157/}}</ref> In the United States and Canada, the DVD earned $29.2 million in domestic video sales.<ref name="NUM"/> The extended cut was released on [[Ultra HD Blu-ray|4K Blu-ray]] on August 9, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Doom-4K-Blu-ray/317124/|title=Doom 4K Blu-ray (Unrated Extended Edition)|first=|last=|work=Bluray.com|date=|access-date=June 23, 2022}}</ref>
 
==Reboot==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0419706|Doom}}
* {{AllmovieAllMovie title|314254}}
* {{Metacritic film}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|doom}}
* {{tcmdbTCMDb title|581108}}
* {{AFI film|63383}}
 
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