The action is rather poorly directed by former stuntman/stunt coordinator Michael John Sarna. Sarna seems to look for any excuse to throw in an explosion or a money shot like someone going through a window, even if there is no dramatically rooted place for it. The action has a frequent absurdity to it. Case in point being the opening sequence where everything seems absurdly posed – a vehicle racing along a road weaves an obstacle course between fire pots that have been strategically placed in the way for no reason other than that they create an effect of a vehicle driving between flames; vehicles for no particular reason do stunt jumps – a bike leaping through the air, a jeep driving out through a window and up a set of stairs; and with the sequence climaxing on a chicken race between vehicles. As with many similar low-budget efforts, the result is a film that seems to have been arranged around a series of boilerplate action scenes. One scene that does work quite well is the fight between Joe Lara and henchman TJ Storm at the end where Storm more than clearly demonstrates that he knows his martial arts, as well as the subsequent battle with the equally agile January Isaac.

But by the end of Doomsdayer, the cliches and references to other films fly a little too heavily. Aside from the numerous Bond references, there’s the scientist (Daniel Masisa) who nobly sacrifices himself by locking himself in the nuclear reactor a la Spock’s death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); the nuclear reactor explosion that could with scientific impossibility trigger a chain reaction of other reactors resulting in worldwide disaster; while the organization Proposal 23 appears to have been modelled on the then recent success of the big-budget action film The Peacemaker (1997).