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General bad writing, casting and middle of the road CGI aside, yes.
Doom is supposed to be one of the scariest guys on the planet. He's the king of a country, so he gets diplomatic immunity a lot of the time. He's a genius with both technology and magic and it usually takes a whole top tier team to beat him. He's scary because as a monarch he's got craploads of money and an army and all that, but he'll beat the piss out of you with all kinds of crazy inventions and doombots and shit he has built into his armour. He once fucked up the entire Stark Tower skyscraper by detonating a doombot made of self replicating nanotechnology just because the Green Goblin (pissed him off). That same building withstood an alien invasion with super powered skrulls and superior weaponry. One time he got into it so bad with the FF that they left him in hell. Fire and brimstone hell. Point is that Doom is not to be fucked with in the comics.
In the movie, he's an executive (lame). He gets his powers from cosmic rays too (ok, that's not too big a deal, as the FF gets their shit that way too and it's less screen time spent on exposition). He turns metal and shoots electricity (I don't get this change at all. Seems like they could have just had him get disfigured, go crazy, blame Richards and rock the armour, which he ends up doing anyway. He can shoot all types of shit with the armour). Him being monarch of Latveria was an afterthought used to set up the even more atrocious sequel (Galactus, the nigh invincible, planet eating universal force was a god damn cloud). In the movie, he's kind of a dick and a bit of a threat, but nothing special. He's just kinda lackluster. He could have been the best part of an otherwise terrible movie.
Bear in mind that Doom was never in the origin story in the comics and that my issues with the movie are not to do with Doom being in it where he wasn't originally.
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