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Summary: Interesting, could be better
Review: The film, The Omega Man seems to have a very good plot and and could be a much better film then originally anticipated. Charlton Heston puts on a fairly good role as the military scientist that fines the vaccine to the ultimate biological weapon which wipes out the entire world. The Family, a group of slowly decaying survivors try to destroy Neville ( Charlton's character) and to abolish the old ways of life and return to the older " holy" way of thinking, thus wiping out mankind's age of the wheel forever. All in all not an entirely bad action-science fiction film, although it is plauged with some mind-bogglingly cheesy lines and awkward action scenes with members of the family dressed up in white make-up, start throwing themselves out windows and chasing Charlton while he is on a motorcycle. The film is alright, but it could be much better.
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Summary: MY GOD ITS ALMOST DARK, THEY'LL BE WAKING UP SOON
Review: This movie is such a classic, I don't think a thousand words can do it justice, but I will try though! If youre antisocial like me, you'll appreciate the fantasy of "being alone". There have been times when I cut class and went to the movies at about 11am on a weekday and made believe I was Charleston Heston in the early "Woodstock" scene, which is just a priceless sequence.The movie does have its political commentaries about how the lack of world peace can turn everyone into light-sensitive Zombies ( Anthony Zerbe, Lincoln Kilpatrick) and interracial loving (Heston and Rosalind Cash). Richard Matheson (through Boris Sagal)has made the ultimate social commentaries with this masterpiece. I don't know about you? But I can't wait for them to unearth an extra hour or two of deleted scenes and bonus footage.Omege Man is a movie that can be watched for 3 hours.
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Summary: Superb Movie.
Review: The Omega Man is great movie that takes place in the near future after biowarfare. Charle Heston is the only one who had the cure and the rest of the people are zombies. It's a good movie and I give it *Watches Woodstock five times.* FIVE STARS!
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Summary: a chilling tale of biological warfare
Review: Charleton Heston's character holds the fate of the world in his hands as he embarks with a serum that (once duplicated) will rescue humanity. When Heston's helicopter crashes before he can get the serum to the proper authorities, he has no choice but to inject himself with it.Nothing but dead bodies everywhere, he believes himself to be the last living man. He soon finds out that he has company, but sadly not the company he wanted. A few of the infected folks have survived, but they're not in great shape to say the least. The stuff has eaten at their brains and they've started their own whacky religion which pretty much puts a death sentence on anyone not just like them. They're everywhere, but Heston's make-shift fortress provides him safety for a few years. He captures a few of them every once in a while to perform experiements on them in a vain attempt to cure them as well. Needless to say, this doesn't make the mutants any more fond of the Omega Man. Little does he know, there are some folks who are naturally immune who also survived. Together, they will either die at the hands of the mutants or start the new human race. The acting is convincing and the settings are grim and stark. This is really a 3.5 star film, but I rounded it up for nostalgia. :-) Mathias (the head mutant) and his group of ghoulish mutants are a little over acted and almost silly at times, but the aftermath of biological war makes this a chilling tale despite its shortcomings. I'd love it if they moved this to DVD with out-takes, behind-the-scenes footage and trailers. This is an apocolyptic 70's classic.
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Summary: Chuck Heston at his best!
Review: Great 1970's sci-fi flick with my main main Chuck Heston thinking he is the last man on earth after chemical warfare with those damn commies! If you love 70's flicks like Nipsey does, You will love OMEGA MAN. Nipsey sez... OMEGA MAN is da BOMB!
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Summary: Stop the Planet of the Apes I want to get off !
Review: First Chuck was Moses,then the voice of God-where next?Well in this post-apocalyptic actioner he is Jesus(if only in the arregorical).This movie has biblical references everywhere and is chocka full of fantastic,memorable scenes:Heston in an empty cinema watching and re-watching 'Woodstock'.Considering Heston's political stance just ponder the implications of that!Thought-provoking(but still entertaining) with a fantastic score from Ron Grainer,a prime example of seventies disillusioned cinema.Watch 'The Planet of the Apes',then 'The Omega Man' and finally 'Soylent Green' for the full effect.
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Summary: 2 stars but don't get me wrong, it has a place in my heart
Review: The Omega Man is not a very good film, but there are scenes of great power, as well scenes of great cheesiness. Chuck Heston, in slightly toned-down "Planet of the Apes" form, is humankind's savior yet, as usual with Chuck's film alter-egos, the viewer's reaction to him is, at best, ambivalent. Nevill has been part and parcel of the destruction of the human race, is arrogant and reactionary, yet he is also a redeemer and a man of accelerating conscience. The movie revolves around his bleak, yet self-imposed state of existence. Nevill's mercenary clashes with his decrepit enemies, much of the dialogue, Nevill's relationship with Lisa (a neat pairing), and the classic Christ-like final scene are interesting and speak to larger moral and social issues eloquently (if a bit hammily, at times), but the film fails to capture the viewer. There are a number of dramatic lapses in the movie, the editing is poor, and the "zombie" enemy is a hackneyed, and, in the end, silly antagonist. The movie also has the same dingy, low-energy atmosphere that characterized "Soylent Green". This atmosphere helps the film at times, yet also stamps the movie irreversibly as a product of the early 1970s' ambitious yet generally unsuccessful "pessimistic future" genre of films. Finally, the score is truly horrendous. It is funny for a while, but then begins to really get on the viewer's nerves, and it does nothing to help in already dull, poorly directed scenes. In short, the movie is dated and directed with minimal energy and skill, but it is worth a look if you want to see a period piece of a jaded time in the "sci-fi" genre, a fun Chuck Heston performance, and flawed ambition.
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Summary: Brings back memories!
Review: I was one year old when they first released this in 1971, so my experience with this is limited to watching TV broadcasts of this film a few years later. Still, I do recall enjoying it immensely and waiting for/watching reruns over and over again, and now I'm glad that I can at long last get to own a DVD copy (and with bonus feautures at that!)! This is a last-man-on-earth tale based on Richard Matheson's 1954 I Am Legend (although as we will see later in the film, Charlton Heston finds other "normal" survivors who help him fight off the Morlocks!). This film's contemporaries include A Clockwork Orange, The Andromeda Strain and Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, in a year when sci-fi finally found out perhaps that people no longer wanted films about "futures that looked like the insides of laundromats and heroes clad in togas" (the last description culled from John Clute's Science Fiction Encyclopedia).
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Summary: Chuck Heston Vs. Neo-Ludite Vampires
Review: Last man on earth defening himself and the few survivors against Neo-Ludite vampires. Loosely based off of "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson. Most of mankind is wiped out by a plague inadvertantly created by Nevill (Heston). Nevill is one of the few survivors, living by himself in a self created fortress, he assumes he is the last man on earth. While the living plague victims have become a dying herd of quasi-vampires, they blame Neville for all the current world's ills and each night taunt him and provoke him into a situtation that the vampires will hope lead to his extinction. Yes, the film has a early 70's dated look to it, with wacked-out afros, hippies, and old hi-fi stereos, yet the film is fun and sometimes intense. A must see by any degree
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Summary: death of the world
Review: The Omega Man is my favorite movie.One of the most regular ideas for a movie.Since the Vincent Price movie was the movie it was made after was good but the Omega Man was better.The stoy was brilleint and I really didnt like the ending of it.The best part was the music and the action parts.I have it and I watch it at least twelve times a night if I dont have homework.
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