USA Today by Mike Clark

For a big-screen disposable, Doom has a few jolts, a few good laughs and an attractive female lead to whom you want to say, "What's a nice girl like you doing on a Mars like this?"

Variety by Justin Chang

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.

Entertainment Weekly

By hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

Doom may be by the numbers, with a roll call of colorful types systematically exterminated while The Rock entertains with cartoonish expressions and reactions (the closest the film comes to personality).

Entertainment Weekly by Marc Bernardin

By hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game.

The Hollywood Reporter

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.

The Hollywood Reporter by Richard James Havis

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.

Chicago Reader by Staff (Not Credited)

The Rock's ungainly performance is somewhat alleviated by Karl Urban as a crew member and Rosamund Pike as his twin sister.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

If he (The Rock) can keep those wandering eyebrows in check, his future as an action hero appears unlimited--that is, provided he can resist taking roles in movies like this one.

Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson

The movie ultimately cops out by culminating in a fistfight between two humans, with nary a cyborg missile-throwing devil in sight.

Village Voice by Drew Tillman

As dumb as they come, the entertaining Doom might warrant a place in cinema history as the first movie in which someone rips off their own ear.

Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman

We don't need a discussion of plot in a review of a movie made from a video game, do we? Nor do we care whether the characters are complicated (no), the acting is sophisticated (no), the direction is competent (no) or the camerawork is clever (no).

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Go for the gore (there's lots of it), but stay for the immortal line: "Now let's go find the body this arm belongs to."

Los Angeles Times by Gene Seymour

Shows less human dimension than the new Wallace and Gromit movie.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

A loud, standard-issue sci-fi action film that has a confusing mission.

Philadelphia Inquirer by David Hiltbrand

Doom is, to its detriment, a remarkably faithful re-creation of the massively popular video game. In other words, it's a dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

A dreadful, hackneyed piece of cinema.

The New York Times by Janet Maslin

This claustrophobic mess of a movie offers only carnage.