I Am Omega (2007) (V)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Griff Furst

Writers:

Richard Matheson (novel)
Geoff Meed (writer)

Release Date:

18 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Bomb | Timer | Gas Pipeline | Disease

Cast

Mark Dacascos	...	Renchard
Geoff Meed	...	Vincent
Jennifer Lee Wiggins	...	Brianna
Ryan Lloyd	...	Mike
Joshua Schlegel	...	Renchard's Son (as Joshua William Schlegel)
Gregory Paul Smith	...	Various Zombies
Matthew Bolton	...	Various Zombies
Myles McLane	...	Various Zombies
Frank Forbes	...	Various Zombies
Afton Forbes	...	Various Zombies
Hayden Forbes	...	Various Zombies
Charles Peeke Jr.	...	Various Zombies
Wil Braithwaite	...	Various Zombies
Marlon Nash	...	Various Zombies
Bob Landau

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Australia:MA | Australia:MA (2008) | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Global Asylum, The

Trivia:

The car that Renchard is driving at the beginning of the movie, as well as the convertible that he and Brianna take from the parking garage, are 1975 Oldsmobile Omega's. Obviously a reference to the tile of the movie. This model of the Oldmosbile Omega was produced from 1973-1979 and was not produced as convertible, having apparently had it's roof cut off for the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dacascos parks his car right outside the dead-guy's grocery store, the car faces towards the entrance door. When he leaves the store and gets in the car, the car now faces the direction where he wants to go.

Quotes:

Renchard: Can't shoot them this close. You'll get blood on you.
Brianna: Yeah, I know.

Movie Connections:

References Heathers (1988)

Beats the fresh princes efforts hands down

This isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination but it's not bad and definitely a lot better than old jug ears effort. Here's why I'd rather watch this a million times than watch Will Smith doing his pitiful Shrek/nervous breakdown scene one more time.

The people in this film aren't computer generated and though they don't look great they don't look like computer game bad guys skating over the floor. This is a definite improvement. In the odd scene they actually look quite good.

It leaves the more philosophical aspects of the book and two films alone. Fair enough, it's not like we haven't seen it done and rather it was absent than messed up and garbled like Legend.

There's a small amount of chemistry between the characters, in Legend there's all the spark of a pair of rubber gloves rubbing together. The characters are all pretty simple but they do have a personality of sorts, again a step up from Legend.

Lastly the main character doesn't really express any emotions which is fair enough, I prefer that to the two faces Will Smith can pull off. You can accept a man who is totally robbed of emotion but it's harder to accept a man that only has two facial expressions and flicks through them and gets his movie described by some genius on here as "an acting buffet."

It's not a perfect movie, some bits are a bit weak but I genuinely enjoyed it so give it a chance you might like it too. For a cheap rip off it's surprisingly entertaining.