Sometimes you want to watch something you don't actually have to pay much attention to. This is where that gets you. Watching a cheaply made sequel to a fairly bad movie based on a video game.
It takes a different approach than Doom did. Ancient gates that allow nearly instantaneous travel between Earth and Mars' moon, Phobos (the locations of the only two gates found so far). Instead of people being infected, and mutating based on being "good" or "evil", or whatever it was that was supposed to be the difference between the Rock and Karl Urban, the gates move through another place where things can attack you and turn you into feral members of the Blue Man Group.
The movie uses the perspective of the characters a lot, because some of them have heads up displays on their visors. Mostly, it's used to show when the ship the Marines used to get there starts messing with the information they're receiving. I feel like the film could have done more with the idea of the ship being hacked/possessed, beyond having it feed them false information and change its voice. Oh well.
Most of the Marines get one character trait or distinguishing characteristic, not really enough to may you care when they start dying. The captain appears to be trying his best Michael Ironsides impression. There's the guy who studied dead languages. Lady who has lucky underwear. Big guy who talks tough but is a coward. It was weird, Coward Guy got really excited that aliens were behind whatever was happening and said they'd learn he was the 'ultra-motherfucker.' But then one of the other Marines yells during a fight that he's the ultra-motherfucker, right before he gets jumped from behind and killed. Seems like you have one guy use it early, he should be the one who dies after using it again. Chekov's Profane Proclamation.
Unless that guy died because he stole the other guy's bit. The Doom universe abhors a copycat, maybe.
The main marine is a Lieutenant Dark, who the rest the squad blames for this assignment because she was guilty of insubordination. I know she let a notorious terrorist escape, and that's what she was insubordinate about, but I kind of tuned out when they might have explained why she did that. Anyway, she's running a bit of a guilt complex once the bodies start piling up, since she figures it's her fault they're there. Wrong movie based on a game to be in for that sort of thing. Non-protagonists don't last long.
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I had no idea they'd made a sequel. Crikey. Although they have made about fifteen Resident Evil films, so it's not without precedent.
I didn't know either until I saw it on Netflix. But hell, they made two Bloodrayne movies, so why not?
I had forgotten there was one Bloodrayne film, let alone two. Truly the worst timeline.
I liked the games and even some of the comics, and even I can't believe they made any movies based on Bloodrayne.
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