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The Omega Code

The Omega Code

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Wasted potential
Review: This movie could have been a great,interesting piece of work. Instead the garbage acting and weak script brought it below the "B movie" level. Michael York and Michael Ironside are the only effective actors in the film. The rest of the acting is "5th grade play" caliber. With the "End of Times" storyline you could have had an awesome, complex film. Instead you have a film that belongs with the $5.99 special videos at Kmart. Disappointing.

Hopefully the sequel (which they just announced will be made) with be significantly better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PEOPLE DON'T SPEAK SO NEGATIVELY ABOUT GOD'S ANOINTED
Review: I'VE ALREADY GIVEN MY REVIEWS ON THIS FILM. IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS THAT A LOT OF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR BIBLE. THE TIME FRAME THIS MOVIE CAME OUT WAS WHEN EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN THE YEAR 2000 ROLLED AROUND. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE END TIMES, WE ARE IN THEM NOW. THE REVELATION IS REAL. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND, TRUST ME IT'S GOING TO BE A TASTE OF HELL ON EARTH. AFTER GIVING A NEGATIVE REVIEW OF GOD'S WORK WHEN YOU OBIVIOUSLY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT'S ALSO OBVIOUS YOU DON'T KNOW THE CURSES YOU GET ON YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU SPEAK AGAINST AUTHORITY GOD'S ANOINTED. EVERYONE OF YOU WHO HAVE TRIED TO HINDER GOD'S WORK WILL BE CURSED. IF YOU READ THIS REVIEW AND HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN A NEGATIVE ONE I'M QUITE SURE SOMETHING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED TO YOU THAT HAS YOU PUZZELED AS TO WHY IT HAPPENED. WHEN MIRAM AND AARON SPOKE AGAINST MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS, GOD CURSED MIRAM WITH THE LEPORSY- MOSES WAS GOD'S ANOINTED. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IN AUTHORITY PRAY TO GOD AND ASK FOR WISDOM AND STRENGHT FOR THAT PERSON AND FOR YOU. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT TO READ THIS I'D LIKE YOUR OPINION

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Omega Code -- God help us.
Review: I'd heard that a faith based organization wanted to put out a movie that was able to get its message across without using the basic staples of other popular movies. I'd thought they'd only meant sex, violence and drug references with a little bit of obscense language thrown in. I never dreamed they meant direction, decent acting and script writing. Casper Van Dien has apparently been studying under the Tom Cruise method. Stand there and look pretty but heaven forbid you should do good work. I understood what the plot was. That was pretty effortless. Getting there seemed a challenge for the filmmakers though. Oh, yes. I kept track of the violence. There was at least as much gun play and killing as in a Bruce Willis movie. Just not as graphic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Just Terrible!
Review: I rented this movie out of curiosity, but it was so bad I could barely stand to watch it the whole way through. With the popularity of action-thriller movies, I guess the filmmakers felt that a Christian thriller would make a lot of money. There are many movies out there that aren't given the label "Christian", but are much better and more inspiring than The Omega Code. Don't waste your time on this. It isn't even good in a "so bad it's funny" way.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must See
Review: Finally a movie that actually portrayed the book of Revelation in an realistic manner. Very fast paced, great action and special effects.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It all made sense...
Review: ...how little I enjoyed this movie when I saw that professional Bible pseudo-expert Hal Lindsey was at the spiritual reins.

This is one of those cocky self-proclaiming "Christian" films, produced under the apparent assumption that its intent (which, according to one of the stuntmen in the "making of" section, at least, is to "save souls") justifies its poor acting, muddy story line, and atrocious Biblical scholarship. Yes, there is a Bible. And yes, you can discover some pretty interesting juxtapositions by selecting certain letters from its original texts. But is this film really, in the words of actor Catherine Oxenberg, "real"? Can Lindsey and his disciples honestly expect any rational, faithful Christian to believe that one human being's entering a previously hidden portion of Hebrew scripture into a computer could make the difference between global harmony and Satanic rule?

Now, I'm perfectly willing to write off the scripural and theological value of a film if it is decently entertaining and at least thought-provoking. ("Stigmata" comes to mind.) But unfortunately for "The Omega Code," other than a smattering of cool (though largely plot-irrelevant) special effects, I finished the movie with one question: "Why did I bother?"

You don't have to take my word for it, but do yourself this favor: before buying "The Omega Code," rent a copy on DVD. Check out the "making of" documentary, and ask yourself if you can't find a better way to spend 100 minutes. (Genuine Bible study comes to mind as an option. Acts 1:7, anyone?)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An Interesting Plot
Review: The concept of the movie is this: the end of the world (Book of Revelations). The movie starts out really interesting and then it goes slowly down hill. If you like things with religious tones or have a curiousity about the end of the world...this movie is interesting even though it does kind of hault to a stop. I will say that it has a good plot to it and I was really interested...but the ending could've been better.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Awful but worth seeing.
Review: John's Apocalypse can be understood either as the nightmarish vision of a disturbed mind or else as a deeply symbolic religious diatribe. The idea of making a movie about the literal interpretation of the nightmare itself could be very interesting from the cinematographic point of view, but, certainly, can be on no value whatsoever to Christianity - it would in fact trivialize the Scriptures.

This movie fails on all counts: As entertainment it's badly done even though I actually sympathize with the actors who were trying to do their best with an extremely stupid script and mediocre directing. As a Christian movie, I think it is a disaster: it is a thinly veiled attempt to scare people back to religion. It pushes people to think about the surface rather than the content and meaning of the good message. For example, in the movie the Salomon Temple is rebuilt physically; any reader of the New Testament knows that the Temple symbolizes Christ's body or faith in Christ. A basic idea in the movie is that God not only chooses to speak to humanity through a book, but chooses to put in it important information as a "code" decipherable by computers! Superstition has nothing to do with Christianity and this movie will not do any good no matter how many people call it "Christian".

The "Omega Code" should be seen by all who want to understand how the televangelists think about Christianity and the Bible.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is not a good film!
Review: This film is a real stinker. Right from the script to the acting this film is really bad. As I watched this film I found myself looking at my watch repeatedly, I guess hoping that I could outlast the bad script, stilted dialog, terriable directing and last but not least elementry school acting. Alas there must be some good in everything and there is. Very interesting locations, so so special effects, and good photography as well as sound editing. but that is it! I can't see how the artists involved allowed their names to be listed in the credits. I hope they got a lot of money cause for sure the credits are not here.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Very Very Bad Indeed
Review: Well, one of the worst films ever, I should say. The story may be a bit interesting, that's why I gave it one star. None of the actors in this film can actually act. They are all really bad. And I mean, really bad. One might say the effects may be nice. They really aren't, and we all know you can build a film based on effects only. Do yourself a favor, don't get this film.


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