God-awful script! The people who brought us weepy televangelists with big pink hair now subject us to this.
The Omega Code (1999)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:2
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Mysticism, overacting, and overall gimcrackery eventually weigh down the story.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Dr. Gillen Lane (Van Dien) is a famous motivational speaker and New Age guru who unknowingly becomes a pawn in the game of Stone Alexander (York), a corrupt businessman whose goal it is to control... Dr. Gillen Lane (Van Dien) is a famous motivational speaker and New Age guru who unknowingly becomes a pawn in the game of Stone Alexander (York), a corrupt businessman whose goal it is to control the world. By unraveling a numerical code hidden within the bible, Alexander attempts to do just that. This independently financed $7.2 million dollar film shocked Hollywood insiders when it managed to slip into the box office top ten under their radar, and will most certainly be remembered in cinematic history as the first film marketed exclusively at Evangelical Christians (successfully, at that). [More]
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside, Jan Triska, Devon Odessa, William Hootkins, Robert Ito, Janet Carroll, George Coe
Director: Robert Marcarelli
Director: Robert Marcarelli
Screenwriter: Stephan Blinn, Hollis Barton
Producer: Robert Marcarelli, Lawrence Mortorff, Matthew Crouch
Composer: Harry Manfredini
Reviews for The Omega Code
While The Omega Code is occasionally lacking in the techno-wizardry so common in similar films it makes up for it with a good plot.
After a promising start, Omega Code devolves into chase after chase, cliche after cliche, until you've finally forgotten just what it is that darn old code's supposed to do in the first place.
With bad acting, hillarious dialogue, and ludicrous plot turns that make this a future candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000 mockery, The Omega Code lurches ahead in fits and starts.
Flabby, pathetic little mess concocted by a consortium of evangelical Christians.
The story is dumb. The actors are dumb. Even the special effects are dumb. But not half as dumb as you'll feel if you pay to get in.
The Omega Code has some of the funniest bits I've seen in a film in a long time, and they're all due to the shocking incompetence of Van Dien as an actor.
I'm all for family-friendly entertainment with a minimum of sex, violence, and foul language -- that is, when done right.
The premise of the story is good, but the execution of that story leaves a lot to be desired.
With a better direction, casting and some rewriting, this film could have been a lot better.
Neither smart and provocative enough to inspire serious religious debate nor amateurish enough to qualify as good schlock.
With the material for a great parody, the movie's worst sin is that the actors, who shamelessly overact, take it all quite seriously.
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