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Summary: Too much ambition.....
Review: The ambition surrounding this project is really funny. I think that to shoot a screenplay like this one, there should be at least 200 million dolars available, instead of the low budget this movie got... LetÂ's see why:The plot is about a HUGE war between China / United States / "THe Latins" VERSUS EUROPEAN UNION. THis alone would deserve expert special effects. THereÂ's also special effects when Satan appears. ThereÂ's world wide caos going on. Also, the movie spans a fifty-years period of time... The good point is to see that people still give leading roles to old actors. Michael York (one of the co-producers) is strong some kind of spiritual and political leader. David Hedison surprised me. HeÂ's still strong (I was always a fan of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA). Michael BiehnÂ's career is going downhill since, whatever the reasons, he is not included anymore in James CameronÂ's projects, but here he tries his best. Anyway, altough a pretentious one, this movie is plain funny.
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Summary: Too much Satan, too little Christ
Review: This movie spends far too much time dwelling on Satan and sets up an incredibly lame confrontation with the United States. There is also a weak effort at romantic interest. I loved Omega Code but this sequel is dreadful, without doubt the worst apocalptic movie I have ever seen.
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Summary: Not a true sequel, but an improvement on THE OMEGA CODE
Review: First off I must say I was amused at the previous reviewer saying MEGIDDO should have been called THE LIFE OF SATAN. And Michael York seemed like such a likeable bloke in 3 MUSKETEERS and the AUSTIN POWERS movies. Now with THE OMEGA CODE and MEGIDDO Michael has been exposed as the satanic fiend he is! Shame Michael shame!! I'm kidding of course. This is a vast improvement on THE OMEGA CODE. Thanks to TOC's success this follow up was made. It's not really a sequel, more a different movie altogether with Yorks's Stone Alexander character the only binding between the two movies. (Plotwise the two don't really mesh together well) Here he has become the most powerful man in history, a living god who has almost achieved his vision of one world which will be fair for everybody, of course all of his sheep lap it all up like the mindless fools they are. The only people standing in his way are the Chinese and US Presidents.
Amazingly, the US President (Michael Biehn) is Stone's brother (only in America!). All this leads up to a one on one conflict blah blah. MEGIDDO is far better than OMEGA CODE... MEGIDDO is glorified straight to video garbage with a larger budget and better visual effects which will appeal to action and sci-fi fans (strangely, the FX budget must have expired before they could fix up Biehn's receeding hairline)...
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Summary: This movie should be called the Life of Satan
Review: This is THE worst movie I have ever watched. I got an e-mail from the producer saying I should get all my friends to come and watch the movie with me to promote more great movies like this. Well, sorry charlie. I felt so bad that my wife was with me. We were both disgusted by how Evil it was. Sorry Michael Biehn, I liked your acting. Next time give credit where credit is due. Please enjoy other movies and don't waste your time with this one. ...
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Summary: Could Have Been Better.
Review: I had waited ever so eagerly to see this film, but it was nowhere near the Biblical blockbuster that I had hoped to see. Whilst appreciating that any subject relating to Biblical prophecy must be a very difficult theme to tackle and convert into a film, there is far too much missing here for it to have the credibility & detail that really shown have blown an audience's mind at this moment in time. There is no reference to the Rapture or the 'Mark of the Beast'. The central role of Jerusalem, The Temple and Israel in end times events receives hardly any mention whatsoever. With these subjects being vital to any interpretation of end time prophecies their absence is disturbing. I appreciate that Megiddo is in Israel, (I have actually visited the scene), but the less informed would perhaps miss even this factor due to the lack of reference and detail. I applaud those concerned for tackling this subject. The public really need an awesome, epic publication along these lines. A film that can stand scrutiny, ooze truth & integrity and grab the attention. One that can really attract and inform the masses as we approach the actual time period itself. The world is crying out for such a film. Please try again and concentrate on the prophecies, inform the viewers of the actual prophecies themselves and their context and then base the characters around them. I have studied Biblical prophecy for a number of years but whilst watching this film I found myself guessing at times as to what exactly was being referred to.
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Summary: This movie is an anti-christian joke!
Review: What in the world does this movie have to do with God, Christianity, or the Bible? Its seems as though the makers of the film took the book of Revelation out of the Bible and molded it into something of their own morbid creation. This movie is right up there with Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, and The Exorcist. So much for "This is God's answer to 9/11"! So much for "This person got saved and that person got saved from seeing this movie"! this movie and it's predecessor, The Omega Code, are both pieces of unscriptural garbage! Neither of them accurately depict end-time events as depicted in Revelation. In fact, they leave out so much stuff that it's amazing. There is no Rapture, no Mark of the Beast, no 21 judgments, no Abomination of Desolation, or any of those other pivotal events of prophecy as foretold in the Bible. Furthermore, there are no references to God, Jesus Christ, the Gospel, or the importance of repenting and getting saved. This movie does well to be classified as a horror movie. Any little kids who see it are bound to have nightmares. The scene where Stone Alexander spews hordes of locusts from his mouth and the other scene where he turns into Satan are absolutely creepy! Anyone who is wise will steer clear of this TBN-produced hogwash! It shouldn't be surprising, since TBN's programming is for the most part heretical and blasphemous. And by the way, I don't think Left Behind is anything worth while, either.
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Summary: Best Film yet on subject.
Review: Having seen many of the reviews for this film and being a script-writer, i think i can offer some guidance.
First off, I have seen written that the acting for these roles is rediculous. It must be noted that the anti-christ will be genuinely arragant and an ego-mainiac, and York portrays this well.
Another complaint is the dialogue. I only found one truly poor piece of dialogue, spoken by Beihn, "The Lord he gives, (cocks gun) the Lord he takes away, " which was somewhat inappropriate for the setting. There was, however, a great line of dialogue for York's Anti-christ. When Beihn's character states, "You don't have a chance in hell." York states, with
emphasis, "Oh, I always have a chance in hell, david." Very well done. Special effects were almost always good or better,
although "Satan" was obviously CGI created.
I believe the main thing that fought against this film was the first Omega Code film. The first one was honestly, almost laughable, the dialogue was rediculous constantly. This film was truly better and it would have fared much better, if it has been released or made first, and the original "omega Code" would have fared better being released second, even though it is sub-par. This is sad, for this second film is a big step up in every department. It is, at the least, a big step in the right direction.
I would certainly recommend it to people. I would caution parents, concerning the satanic rights sequences, as they could be deemed intense.
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Summary: Omega Code 2: Potentially Good Concept Goes Nowhere
Review: Over the last few years, mainstream Christianity has reached out to America with the usual intention to prepare the world for the Last Days. THE OMEN started the trend with LEFT BEHIND following. Now there is MEGIDDO: THE OMEGA CODE 2, which has all the flaws of both but few of the virtues of either. My problem with MEGIDDO has little to do with how one interprets the Bible but everything to do with cinematic craftsmanship. Regardless of the topic, I expect the director to present an internally consistent point of view with one plot element logically leading to the next. If he wants to crib from earlier movies as his use of the young Stone Alexander as the newest reincarnation of Damien from THE OMEN 2, that's fine, but I insist that the production qualities not be so shabby as to intrude. Sadly, in MEGIDDO, there is plenty of blame to pass around. First, there is the hammy acting of Michael York, who plays Stone as an anti-Christ who insists on the audience's verbal recognition of him as such with his constant use of quote from Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' and his penchant for a sonorous pseudo-Biblical method of oration that invests each phrase with a many layered religious subtext. Michael Biehn, who was was so convincing in THE TERMINATOR, has forgotten how to act without somehow getting physical in the process. Diane Venora, who plays Stone's wife Gabriella, is surprisingly effective as the long suffering wife who only slowly comes to realize that her husband of many years is not what he seems. The best part of the film was the chronicling of the growth and rise to power of Stone. It is only after his ascension to power as the head of the New World Union that the story goes seriously astray. I do not believe that the FBI can show up at the White House with an arrest warrant for the President as was done in this film. Nixon and Clinton could probably attest to that. Then there is the battle scene between the union of the Latin and Chinese armies against Stone's army at Jerusalem. I truly did not understand how and to what extent the United States army under the command of the new and illegal President fit into the military scheme of things. The battle scenes were a jumble in which it was impossible to tell who was fighting whom. Finally, there was the illogic of the demonic supernatural. If Stone could cause a vast plague of locusts to fly out of his mouth to attack Beijing, then why could he not do the same when the Chinese/Latin tank armies miraculously appeared out of nowhere to wind up in Jerusalem? The defeat of Stone, who by the end stands revealed as some sort of winged, horned Bible devil, does not ring true. If his nemesis, The Nazerene (the good angel--I think) could blast the ranks of Stone's army in much the same way that Byron describes in the poem 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' then one might wonder why did this Nazerene wait so long?
MEGIDDO: THE OMEGA CODE 2 is the kind of movie that is geared for an audience that is Bible-based and seeks to know that the events hinted at in Revelation are nigh. Plagues, earthquakes, famine and the rise of the anti-Christ may indeed be nigh, but movies like this one do not present a convincing case that there is a connection between what the Bible suggests God wants and what this movie delivers.
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Summary: Best Apocolypse movie out there!
Review: I liked Omega Code but after hearing about a sequel/remake I was skeptical because any sequel,
especially a sequel to a Christian movie is bound to not be as good as the first one. Though I was VERY surprised
with what I saw in Meggido. The storyline included more biblical concepts than the first and the storyline was better. It
seemed they rushed things just a little bit in places. I think they should've showed Antichrit's grip on the world more
and David's salvation seemed rushed and it surprised me that he got saved after hearing a few passages out the Second
Coming out of the bible. But the effects in this movie are absolutely amazing! They're just as good as any other movie
out there. Armegddon is so real it'll keep u on the edge of your seat. The only special effects shot I didn't like was hell, it looked kind of fake but Satan looked so real. This
movie is said to be the best apocalyptic movie ever made, which is what they said about Left Behind, which was a
bunch of baloney, but it's true about this movie. This is a must get movie to add to your collection and if you're still
skeptical you can always rent it.
Rating:
Summary: Better then Omega Code
Review: Megiddo is a really gooood movie it shows where we are in the
end times.I thought that Micheal York done a execentlent job
with the Stone Alexender chracter.And the return of Jesus Christ
was Depected very well it was just like how the Bible described
it.And the Battle scenes where great you would think you where
watching Breaking News coverage of a war with Iraq on CNN.They
where that well done.And the movie answered a lot of questions
that I have had since 9/11/01....
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