Phil Nugent over at Screengrab writes: “Neil Marshall's new sci-fi action thriller Doomsday, starring the very hard-to-mind-looking-at Rhona Mitra, opens [today]. It is but the latest in a long and hallowed tradition of using the controlled, expensive technology of motion pictures to imagine how things will look as our planet, spinning out of control with its resources depleted, chews through its last Hooksexup and prepares to breathe its last. We don't know for sure how the world will really end of course, but one thing's for sure; if the last person who's there to see it has seen the right movies, he's certain to spend his last minutes experiencing a powerful sensation of deja vu.”
They may not mention global warming, or the fact that Nicole Richie is now a mom, but check out the “Ten Great End-of-the-World Movie Scenarios,” conveniently packaged in Part 1 and Part 2.