Part 2: Army of Darkness meets Gladiator. Somehow we're suddenly in a medieval castle on the Scotland countryside, and Eden is fighting an actual knight, with body armor and the whole nine yards, in an arena. Cool.

Part 3: The Road Warrior. A big car chase with the crazy tattooed cannibal etc. people. No, it's not nearly as good as the car chase in The Road Warrior, but that's clearly what it's going for.

If this everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach sounds like fun to you, chances are you'll like the movie. The editing gets way too confusing way too often, with a series of quick close-ups that frequently cause you to lose your bearings.

On the other hand, I admire the movie's decision to have a female protagonist; Mitra brings to the role what Kate Beckinsale brought to the Underworld movies -- the gun-toting badassery inside a teeny-tiny body -- and she's charismatic enough that I'd love to see her in more.

Sure it's not the most original flick on the block, but when you consider the genre, it almost becomes downright innovative. When you think about the repetition and similarities of all the recent horror movies of the past few years, calling Doomsday out for paying homage to its forebears frankly becomes a futile pursuit.

Movie Grade: B

Synopsis:

Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.