Thy Davideth
Omega Doom is a dystopia cyberpunk film with a touch of spaghetti western. One of the most amazing things about this blunder is the fact that this was a 83 minute film and it felt like 50000000 minutes. This film was paced like turtles f$(#!n'. Other than that, this another Albert Pyun film with great ideas but with p!$$ poor execution. But it is not his worst. The film does look good and the whole spaghetti western approach was cool and the story had some nice ideas but it was sluggish as hell and was a little bit too desolate. Buy it extremely cheap.
Leofwine_draca
Albert Pyun has long been a purveyor of cheap science fiction/action films (the Van Damme starrer CYBORG is one of his best known) and this film comes as no exception. You can almost imagine them thinking of the concept here; "Oh yeah, let's remake YOJIMBO again but this time with an all-robot cast! That'll be cool!". While OMEGA DOOM does have some redeeming factors, in the end these are spoiled by poor editing which totally ruins any excitement the action scenes may have had, and the simplistic script. In the end it's just like any other mid '90s low-budget sci-fi caper, it looks impressive from the outside but invariably disappoints.This film has one small, cheap set. It looks like it's been filmed in an eastern European war-torn town, and that's because it was. As there is little budget for impressive visual effects (a few colourful flashes, and a moving severed head are about it), the guys on the sound effects track go berserk with all manner of weird and wonderful sounds. Each robot movement makes a whirr or a clank, each time a weapon is powered up there's a cool noise. In fact 90% of this movie has some kind of sound effect going on in it. Sadly these become tiring after a while.Pyun has always been a journeyman director, and here he does a pretty bad job again. As I mentioned earlier, a right hash is made of the action scenes in which it's impossible to figure out what's happening. Much of this film consists of talk though, and its quite watchable and never becomes boring. Most fun is Rutger Hauer, whose poetry-spouting peaceful robot is the film's most interesting character, and he dominates much of the screen time. Hauer is fine in the role, although it isn't exactly stretching.The supporting cast has some mildly familiar faces, but most of the actors and actresses are just minor players - although, somewhat scarily, a whole load of them seem to have been either in Pyun's HEATSEEKER or BLAST, a DIE HARD rip-off also from '96. Shannon Whirry appears in a minor role as an evil female robot who plans to double-cross Hauer and gets shot in the stomach before s-l-o-w-l-y dying; Whirry's best known for her role in late night adult films so her acting is, as to be expected, pretty atrocious. However, good value comes from Norbert Weisser as 'the Head', an amusing foil for Hauer who spends most of the screen time either doing pratfalls or having his head knocked off and smashed against walls. Some of the robots, as played by Tina Cote and Jahi Zuri, are also sufficiently imposing, especially the latter with his piercing blue contact lenses.OMEGA DOOM has a few tricks and surprises up its sleeve which keeps it mildly watchable in a good-natured way, but it's not a film you would want to pay to see. Instead, it's a derivative quickie, in which there isn't much originality and which offers up nothing new or of interest to the genre. Basically, you can live your life quite happily without seeing this film, trust me.
Vitali Hopkin
End of humanity is even darker than we have thought. Few robots in the dead theater. They play us and we are watching. Pure magic. Nothing happens, but you are there. Great movie in "japan-western's" style. It has Soul. It doesn't have body. Only head on the floor. Somebody will fall in love with it. Some lonely cat will. Female characters are outstanding. Rutger Hauer is Rutger Hauer. Deep music all around the place. Omega Domm is full of future shocks: Matrix type antagonists, for example. Were Wachowski under the influence of this film? I believe, they were. But don't compare it to Matrix, it is Anti-Matrix. That is why it is really good. Give Omega Doom special effects of Matrix and our planet will explode. So, in order to keep our world safe and sound we need to store these two wonderful films on a different poles.
psystation
Omega Doom rocks with cheesy-ness. Any one who likes bad movies this is for them. I like this movie in a MST3K kinda way. It has bad special effects, bad acting, and a bad plot. If you like abuse then this movie is for you. The one good thing about this movie is the sound effect when the robots are about to fight.
