Rating: 
Summary: Unsatisfying "conclusion."
Review: This third(and final, before the abysmal "Omen IV") entry in the "Omen" series is not nearly as scary as its two predecessors. The conflict of the title comes across as rather flat and uninteresting. What should have been a titanic battle between the forces of evil and the powers of good is instead an entertaining and mildly creepy time-waster. Sam Neil is excellent as the adult Damien. He oozes an icy charm while still projecting an aura of dark foreboding. He is thouroughly convincing as the Antichrist. The other actors turn in good performances, especially Rossano Brazzi as Father DeCarlo, the leader of a group of monks whose aim it is to destroy the son of Satan. Once again, Jerry Goldsmith turns in a soundtrack that will send shivers up your spine. Though a comedown from previous entries, this is still a good horror flick.
Rating:
Summary: Unsatisfying "conclusion."
Review: This third(and final, before the abysmal "Omen IV") entry in the "Omen" series is not nearly as scary as its two predecessors. The conflict of the title comes across as rather flat and uninteresting. What should have been a titanic battle between the forces of evil and the powers of good is instead an entertaining and mildly creepy time-waster. Sam Neil is excellent as the adult Damien. He oozes an icy charm while still projecting an aura of dark foreboding. He is thouroughly convincing as the Antichrist. The other actors turn in good performances, especially Rossano Brazzi as Father DeCarlo, the leader of a group of monks whose aim it is to destroy the son of Satan. Once again, Jerry Goldsmith turns in a soundtrack that will send shivers up your spine. Though a comedown from previous entries, this is still a good horror flick.
Rating:
Summary: Final Conflict lacks drama and tension.
Review: While Damien Thorn, the Anti-Christ itself, now fully grown and a powerful political figure and businessman, is preparing to dominate the world, as it is prophesized somewhere in the bible, the daggers buried under the rubble of the Chicago Museum of Natural History at the climax of Omen 2 are found. During an excellent opening credit sequence, we follow the daggers of Megiddo from a pawn shop, across the world, and into the hands of a group of Monks who have been patiently waiting for such an opportunity to be given to them. Everything after that is rather listless, the 'accident' strewn plot enlivened only by a sorely underdeveloped romance of sorts between Damien and a television reporter. The 'final' conflict itself is really anti-climatic, but Damien does get a great parting shot of a line.The Final Conflict offers a few good things, namely a wonderful debut performance by Sam Neil as Damien and another excellent score by Jerry Goldsmith. The photography is atmospheric and some of the death scenes are show stoppingly energetic, but that does not a good movie make. On the negative side we have Damien Thorn, Evil Incarnate and out to Rule the World, then destroy it, who turns out to be far too boring of a one dimensional character to build a film around. He has no conflict within himself and, outside of that pesky squad of monk assassins, he really has no outside conflict in which to engage him. The previous movies worked better when focusing on a different character that finds out what Damien is and must then grapple with his/her own human doubt as well as the forces of evil. Also fans hoping for a huge, global, fate of the world in the balance battle as a climax will be sorely disappointed, it is not to be found. Worth seeing only for Sam Neil's performance and Goldsmith's score, but not for any kind of attempt at satisfying closure.
Rating: 
Summary: Top film,they dont make em like this anymore
Review: Would you be the English Ambassador after watching these films A classic
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