The Omega Code (1999)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Gifted director Robert Marcarelli flirts with greatness in bringing this thought provoking and exciting motion picture to the screen. Using his camera like a sculptor uses his chisel, Marcarelli crafts a film of suspense, adventure, philosophy, and ultimately, Truth. Screen writers Stephan Blinn and Hollis Barton have fashioned an unusually intelligent, intellectual script that manages to educate and illuminate as it entertains the audience in grand style. Casper Van Dien is superb as usual, playing a man in search of the truth while another, essayed with brilliance by the wonderful Michael York, seeks to change history to his own advantage. The lovely and extremely talented Catherine Oxenberg is also great in a significant supporting role, as is veteran Michael Ironside, making a strong impression in a small part. The past, the present, and the future hang in the balance as a struggle between good and evil will ultimately decide the fate of humanity. This is a philosophically challenging film and is destined to stimulate even the sharpest intellects with its sophisticated puzzles.

I don't watch many violent movies, but when I do.., they better be good(think Clint Eastwood, Steven Segal). I was willing to go along with this movie and was perfectly fine with it until...The woman that he spent the whole movie with and who risked her neck getting the lead actor onto a "network jet" to smuggle him out of Rome...pulls a gun (with a silencer) on him. Give...me...a...break. It just reeked of Hollywood so badly: A cheap, sensational, non-sensical turn in the plot. Totally without any credibility. (Think DaVinci Code if the leading lady had turned on Tom Hanks 3/4 the way through the movie). I turned the movie off, sighed, and threw it out.

My husband and I saw a portion this film because it was playing at the right time and the title sounded cool. This is the first and only movie we have walked out of. The reason, five minutes into the film there was a blond girl with a golden retriever smack dab in the middle east just waiting to be snatched by a baddie. To clue in the clueless audience bad guy themed music boomed through out the theater. After this cliché to the hilt opening my husband and I walked out and took a cigarette lighter to our tickets.Years later friends were discussing awful films, I told her that I had seen 5 minutes of a truly awful movie. Interested she asked me the title when I told her it was the Omega Code she became upset. Being a born again Christian she told me that this was a really good film and that she had it on VHS and that I could borrow it. I told her no thanks and she said she would pray for me.

Most of the reviews here seem to be written by Godless mockers who are just trying to be smart *sses. Although in order to make it interesting the movie has added a bunch of junk about computer "codes" the movie really does seem to do a good job following Biblical prophecy. Hal Lindsey who is a well known expert on biblical prophecy was an adviser. First read the book of Daniel then read the Book of Revelation. By the way this movie has nothing whatsoever to do with Nostradamus. The movie would have been better if the sequel Meggido had been bundled with it. Thats really all I have to say but since that is less than ten lines I need to babble on like the rest of the people here who want to make them selves seem important other wise it won't be accepted.