Vance said:
Doom's weaknesses are pretty much spelled out elsehwere here,
But so long as we don't get an insanely stupid, unfunny, and blatantly racist dinner scene...
Oh boy, so you are regurgitating the review of some politically correct critic. It's a great scene. Maybe you had to be there to see it in the theater as I did.
Vance said:
A female 'sidekick' that screams more than anyone else has dialog...
OK so you aren't familiar enough with old Hollywood to get the classic damsel-in-distress character. Perhaps not your fault, may I suggest you try watching some TCM.
Vance said:
key scenes that are sadly shunted for bad comedy...
There are plenty of good quotable lines.
Vance said:
And a ten minute out-of-character 'dark' sequence...
The best part of the Indiana Jones character is the dark, mysterious, on-the-edge grave robbing stuff in ROTLA and TOD. It starts to get less interesting when he has a dad, and a kid, and a wife.