Omen III: The Final Conflict

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Summary: Spooky!
Review: I saw this film back in 1983. It was one of the most frightening horror movies i've ever seen. I remember chills up and down my spine. Sam Neill plays the diabolical lead role very well. He's evil and cunning as the devil itself.

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Summary: Note to Sam Neill:Destroy copies of this film and disavow it
Review: If things couldn't get worse, Omen III proves that you can take a mildly intresting movie like the Omen and run it into the ground.

Sam Neill gives a performance that is so hollow and dull, that he should be embarresed to have this film ever mentioned or seen. Once again, a series of bizarre accidents surround the mysterious Damien. Poor Rossano Brazzi is reduced to wandering around warning people about the "dandi-christ."

Flat, cold, univolving and about as scary as a can of spam.

This movie is cold, flat, uninvolving and

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Summary: A tremendous final thud
Review: If this film is to be believed, the final battle between good and evil, the antichrist vs. the son of god, will entail people sitting in offices, yakking away, or occasionally making vague and ambiguous taunts to crucifixes. Oh, and there'll be a fox hunt and some angry beagles, and poor TV set safety standards. Does this send chills up your spine? Of course not.

This final chapter (aside from a TV movie, which is really spin-off) in a horror series that started so auspiciously and so atmospherically, is cheap and incredibly dull. The plot is a meandering series of mind-numbingly boring scenes, none of which generate any suspense or even seem to fit together. There is no sense of eternal conflict or the fate of the world possibly hanging in the balance. There aren't even any creative, fun death scenes like in the first two.

Neill is remarkably bland as the antichrist, but the script never makes him any more than a somewhat unethical businessman (even ordering his hypnotized but dull-as-dishwater followers to murder infants doesn't come across as particularly evil). Goldsmith's score is spectacular, but it only reminds you how little is actually occurring on screen. Ultimately, The Final Conflict is just a fish out of water, weakly struggling until it runs out of air and dies entirely. A complete waste of time and money on a subject that deserved a true epic treatment. Only bother with this if you liked the first two Omen films.

The DVD provides one extra: commentary from director Baker (Alien Nation). He's about as exciting as the movie.

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Summary: Not the worst film of its genre, but not the best, either
Review: In comparison to "The Omen" and "Damien - Omen II", The Final Conflict is rather weak. It doesn't bring the mounting tension of the earlier films to the satisfactory conclusion one would expect, and Sam Neill's portrayal sometimes lacks a certain intensity. As a horror/thriller film, it's not particularly successful either. The horrific elements are restricted to a handful of scenes and the characters (Dean, Kate, the priests who assist Father DeCarlo in his hunt for Damien) aren't always fleshed out the way they should be. But there are some nice touches, like Damien's monologue in his dark "chapel" and the grand foxhunt sequence. Jerry Goldmith's score is an interesting mixture of bombast and subtlety. And Rossano Brazzi is always enjoyable to watch.

I found the ending awkward and somewhat muddled, and contradictory to key plot points made in the previous films (notably, the importance of having all 7 daggers when trying to destroy Damien) but the film is worth at least a viewing.

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Summary: Not the worst film of its genre, but not the best, either
Review: In comparison to "The Omen" and "Damien - Omen II", The Final Conflict is rather weak. It doesn't bring the mounting tension of the earlier films to the satisfactory conclusion one would expect, and Sam Neill's portrayal sometimes lacks a certain intensity. As a horror/thriller film, it's not particularly successful either. The horrific elements are restricted to a handful of scenes and the characters (Dean, Kate, the priests who assist Father DeCarlo in his hunt for Damien) aren't always fleshed out the way they should be. But there are some nice touches, like Damien's monologue in his dark "chapel" and the grand foxhunt sequence. Jerry Goldmith's score is an interesting mixture of bombast and subtlety. And Rossano Brazzi is always enjoyable to watch.

I found the ending awkward and somewhat muddled, and contradictory to key plot points made in the previous films (notably, the importance of having all 7 daggers when trying to destroy Damien) but the film is worth at least a viewing.

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Summary: It is scary.
Review: It is part three of the Omen Trilogy (films) and it is the best. I reccomend it to all of you who like a shocker! James Young London

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Summary: Neill can be forgiven for this one and "Jurassic Park III"!
Review: Neill was just getting his feet wet in America when he signed on for this, the third installment in the lucrative horror saga, so he can be allowed a lousy film or two.

And this one is filled with "lice": underdeveloped characters, weird cinematography, blasphemously bad writing, and a poor score from music master Jerry Goldsmith after his two stunning ones for parts I and II.

This is only for those of us that want to complete the set.

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Summary: A little weaker, but still worth it for any Omen fan
Review: Omen 3: The Final Conflict is a good ending to the series and is a pretty good sequel. The only problem is that unlike the other too, Damien is too mean, you really dont want to follow him, and the other character we'd noramlly turn to for someone to root for are paperthin and it's impoosible to care about them. I really got turned off when Damien demanded that all the babies be killed. But the ending is good and a suprise cameo .

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Summary: Antichrist too wussy?
Review: Omen III: The Final Conflict was a bit of a disappointment. A young Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) portrays Damien, now in his thirties who has now fully come to terms with his destiny as the antichrist and seeks to stop the second coming of Christ by having his followers murder all children born during an astrological anomaly. There is also a group of seven 'priest hit men' who have recovered the daggers from the previous films and attempt to assassinate Damien throughout the film. The church assassination plot is probably the most interesting thing about the film, but the would-be killers are so bumbling and inept that Damien dispatches them effortlessly and it kind of defeats the purpose. The film's highlight is the assassination attempt during the foxhunt in which the priests substitute a fox to lure Damien alone to an ambush, which they execute perfectly, but apparently didn't think things through far enough to foresee that there might be difficulties in trying to wade through a pack of hunting dogs to get to Damien with the daggers when he has a history of using animals to do his dirty work...

The infanticides take place off camera, except in the case of a car striking a baby carriage, but it's still a pretty horrible concept which makes the film nearly as evil its predecessors, but Sam Neill's Damien comes across as being entirely too prissy and aristocratic to make a good antichrist. Wouldn't you think that the son of the devil would be way into drugs and debauchery? Damien seems more like the typical corporate CEO. The plot is riddled with holes and the ending is especially bad and don't even get me started on the woman who, after being warned by the priest that Damien is the antichrist, promptly falls in love with him...

Oh, and the murders are as follows: suicide by gunshot to the face, immolation while swinging upside down from a rope, trapped under a grate in an old castle and left to starve (?), fall off a horse and off a bridge, mauled by pack of hunting dogs, and finally, killed by possessed wife with steaming-hot iron to the face.

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Summary: Marvellous!
Review: Perhaps you can tell from my email address that I am quite a fan of the Omen flicks. This one is amazing... The acting is superb, the plot is unnerving, and the atmosphere is wonderful. Take a look at Final Conflict. You won't regret it. True horror!