Doomsday vs Upgrade

Upgrade has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6/10 for Doomsday). Upgrade is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 48m. Doomsday is the older of the two (2008 against 2018). Both are action, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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DoomsdayUpgrade
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 7.5/10
Year20082018
Length1h 48m1h 40m
GenresAction, Science Fiction, ThrillerAction, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country––
DirectorNeil MarshallLeigh Whannell
Main castAlexander Siddig, Sean Pertwee, MyAnna Buring, Adrian Lester, Malcolm McDowellBetty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson, Ming-Zhu Hii, Simon Maiden, Logan Marshall-Green

Synopsis

Doomsday

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has…

Upgrade

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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