Universal turned Doom into an action film with almost none of its horror, and it bombed

Universal Pictures adapted id Software's Doom games into an action-horror film starring Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban, moving the story away from the games' isolated survival-horror tension toward a more conventional military action format, on a budget reported between $60 and $70 million.

The finished film kept only a brief first-person-shooter sequence as a nod to the games, while critics and longtime fans said the rest abandoned the atmosphere and pacing that made the source material distinctive.

Doom opened to negative reviews and closed with $58.7 million worldwide box office, below its production budget alone before marketing and distribution costs. Universal's net theatrical return came to roughly $30.7 million, leaving most of the budget unrecovered.