History YMMV / Doomsday

* FriendlyFandoms: When you have [[Creator/RhonaMitra Lara Croft]] playing the lead characters, it's inevitable to get interest from Franchise/TombRaider fandom.

* FriendlyFandom: When you have [[Creator/RhonaMitra Lara Croft]] playing the lead characters, it's inevitable to get interest from Franchise/TombRaider fandom.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: On a budget of $30 million, Neil Marshall made a completely insane, RuleOfCool-driven action movie that uses as many practical effects as it can. Yeah, the Bentley driving straight through a fucking bus at ninety miles an hour? They ''really did that''. And since Bentley doesn't do ProductPlacement, that meant that they actually had to buy three high-end luxury cars, at $150,000 each, to smash up in order to film that scene. Then there's the props. The crew ''designed'' and made about a hundred ''different'' hand-to-hand weapons, a couple of guns, several punkish "mutant" cars, and a special suit of armor so it would look like it was makeshift. Finally, the two [=APCs=] in the film were designed and then built completely from ''scratch''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Viper. At least half the talk for this movie is about how incredibly hot she was.

* MoralEventHorizon: Apparently the rest of the world saw Britain as this when they walled off the entire population of Scotland to die horribly of the plague, turning their backs on it.
** Kane's so pissed by this that he ''tortures his own daughter'' for bringing outsiders to his castle. He ''does'' have a point, albeit an amoral one; [[spoiler:the only thing keeping the Reaper virus from annihilating their little kingdom the way it has the rest of Scotland is their genetic resistance to the disease, and interbreeding with people who don't have it could very well wipe them out. The way he frames it as her having "sinned" by bringing people that aren't from their "pure" bloodline to his little kingdom is certainly something that could bite them in the ass further down the line, however]].

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as King of Medieval Land, for about five seconds.
** He's also the narrator at the beginning [[GenreShift but by the time you get to his scene, you'll have long forgotten about it]].

** And, of course, films about epidemics have a distinctly different taste for a lot of people after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

** And, of course, films about epidemics have a distinctly different taste for a lot of people after the Covid pandemic.

* Canaris deciding [[spoiler:[[KillThePoor to allow the Reaper Virus to wipe out some of the overpopulation]] [[ANaziByOtherName for the sake of keeping Britain strong]].]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: While Canaris was a gleefully ObviouslyEvil character, his plan to "cull" the clearly bursting at the seams overpopulated London, while cruel and evil, practically shines as simple PragmaticVillainy, London is overpopulated to the point of unsustainablity, the UK is recieving no support from the rest of the world due to sealing off Scotland, and as Canaris put it, the sheer mass of people created a perfect breeding ground for the resurgance of the Reaper Virus, by allowing the infected population to simply die off, the cure will make sure that uninfected people will be safe in time for cleanup, also there is no gauruntee that they can make a cure from Cally, possibly they can only make a vaccine, and judging from the BodyHorror symptoms of the virus, the infected even when cured may die from massive organ failure, Canaris while not being a good person is clearly being at least somewhat pragmatic.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: As mentioned, ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' meets ''MadMax'' meets ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', with a lot of the requisite tropes from those films turning up in this one as well.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Bunch of fat guys in kilts suddenly dancing can-can in the middle of cannibal rave party. Even for this particular film it's still just weird.
* ClicheStorm: The film is entirely build from pieces picked from different post-apocalyptic action flicks of the 80s, refined into something completely new. Vigilant viewers may predict plot events few scenes ahead, but it doesn't make the film any less fun to watch. It also never takes itself serious, which helps immensely.

** Kane torturing his own daughter just because she "sinned" by bringing people that aren't from their "pure" bloodline to his little kingdom.

* Kane torturing his own daughter just because she "sinned" by bringing people that aren't from their "pure" bloodline to his little kingdom.

* OneSceneWonder: MalcolmMcDowell as King of Medieval Land, for about five seconds.

* {{Missed Moment of Awesome}}: The film sets up two warring factions: a bunch of ''MadMax'' psychos and a bunch of badass knights in spiky armor. For some inexplicable reason, these two groups never fight each other.

* SoBadItsGood, though YourMileageMayVary.
** Quite widely, in fact. This is one case where it can easily sway from SoCoolItsAwesome to [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]].

* [=~So Bad It's Good~=], though YourMileageMayVary.
** Quite widely, in fact. This is one case where it can easily sway from [=~So Cool It's Awesome~=] to [=~DarthWiki/So Bad It's Horrible~=].