Based upon the heavily popular first-person shooter “Doom” perhaps captures the game a little too well for its own good. I keep seeing movies based on games that may well be great but have no depth (e.g. “Street Fighter”) so I’m still waiting for a “Zelda” or “Half-Life” picture.

In “Doom”, a bunch of space marines, who are the kind you could only ever find in a movie (or videogame) led by Sarge (Dwayne Johnson “Fast Five”, “The Other Guys”) journey to Mars after a distress signal. The film captures the feel of the game as the characters goes through dark hallways and shoot monsters but it isn’t all that fun to look at. Near the end there is even a first-person scene, which is like watching somebody else play the game; I like the fact they’re trying but it is a horrible segment.

Karl Urban (“Red”) plays the main character but unfortunately he lacks any form of personality whatsoever and this can be said for many of Mr. Urban’s characters in his various films. Dwayne Johnson is kind of fun but as the film went on the character goes through a change in attitude and for me no longer works; he should have been the main character. The other marines’ vocabulary is very small and therefore provides nothing of interest when all you see is black on the screen due to darkness of the corridors. The monsters look okay.

I have yet to see a film that can convert a videogame and make it work because they just seem for a variety of reasons such as not following the games, following the games too closely or usually just making a bad film anyway. “Doom” has some interesting moments but due to the fact it aims to be just like the game it finds itself being a below-average space marine movie, why not try “Aliens” instead?