Omega Doom (1996)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Albert Pyun

Writers (WGA):

Albert Pyun (story)
Albert Pyun (screenplay) ...

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Robots rule the Earth. Only one man can stop them.

Plot:

After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding...

Plot Keywords:

Robot | Android | Scientist | Soldier | Cyborg

Cast

Rutger Hauer	...	Omega Doom
Shannon Whirry	...	Zed, Droid Leader
Norbert Weisser	...	The Head
Tina Cote	...	Blackheart, Rom Leader
Anna Katarina	...	The Bartender (as Anna Katerina)
Jill Pierce	...	Zinc, Rom
Simon Poland	...	Zed Too, Droid
Cynthia Ireland	...	Ironface, Rom
Jahi J.J. Zuri	...	Marko, Droid
Earl White	...	Titus, Droid
Jozef Apolen	...	Scientist
Peter Mates	...	Soldier
Peter Janac	...	Soldier
Martin Rajec	...	Soldier
Robert Kordos	...	Soldier

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence. (edited version; was Rated R for sci-fi violence.)

Runtime:

84 min (PG-13 version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Slovakia

Company:

Filmwerks

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Allemaal film: De amerikaanse droom (#1.6)" (2007)

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE ROBOTIC. Cool, but with no depth...

RESUME: "Last Man Standing" with robots. A lone stranger enters a post-apocalyptic 'town', where he takes advantage of the growing tensions between two 'gangs' of killing-machines, using their own inane appetite for destruction against themselves. They are a doomed race, we learn, being capable of nothing but destruction.

GOOD: The visual language is that of Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti westerns, where most of the time is spend building up tension in a psychological (positronic?) game of poker between the main characters, before the actual violence takes place in the blink of an eye. The scenes with our protagonist, Hauer, and the evil female robot, "Blackheart", are a visual, erotic intercourse, replacing menace for foreplay and death for climax! I can't help but wonder if the Wachowsky Brothers saw this movie while making "Matrix", since they totally borrowed the look and style off this movie!

BAD: Style aside, it is a sin to make a movie with such obvious potential for delving into the intricacies of being human/artificial and utterly ignoring it for the whole 90 minutes! Just a hint of Isaac Asimov or Phillip K. Dick would have done the deed!

UGLY?: No, actually quite a nice little b-movie that leaves you with a gnawing feeling of what it could have been with just a slightly better script.