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R, 86 min.

Directed by: Albert Pyun

Release Date: July 8, 1997

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DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004

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  • June 2, 2009
    One of Rutger's weirder movies, but still a damn good find. If you are a fan of post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi movies, you should go find this at your local video store and pop it in the ol' DVD. In my opinion, worth buying if you have the chance.
  • March 22, 2009
    Starring Rutger Hauer, 'Omega Doom' is one of the few halfway decent outings from "one of the most vituperated directors of all time" Albert Pyun. This movie is pure Pyun too; it has all the usual suspects and reeks of his MO: obnoxious, wise-cracking female cyborgs, dystopian/po...( read more)st-apocalyptic landscapes, and a highly eroticized cyber punk sensibility melded with inpenetrable but engaging themes (man, machine, hope, despondence). It has all the ingredients that made his most successful films (Cyborg, Nemesis) work.

    Rutger Hauer is the lead character, Omega Doom/Guardian Angel, a cyborg programmed to kill humans, but is shot in the head in a bloody war at the beginning, loses his memory, and now is awol in some ghost town and gets into all sorts of Yojimbo/Last Man Standing hi-jinks. I was a big fan of Hauer growing up- stuff like 'Split Second,' Wanted' and, of course, 'the Hitcher,' were off-the-chain and I ate his output up with a spoon. He's pretty good here, and doesn't seem to mail it in at all.

    The secondary character aren't too memorable- we have, as mentioned previously, the wise-cracking cyborg chicks (which reminded me of the cyborg chicks in Nemesis)- they engage in more talk than action, exchange a few cold, sardonic quips, and get dealt with accordingly by Hauer at the end. There's another dude at the beginning who has these bad, blue contacts like Vincent Klynn in 'Cyborg.' There's also a "head," a cyborg getting kicked around by the baddies in the town and always seems to lose his body. He was more annoying than anything else, and the special effects for his head were total bad sci fi DTV.

    This movie is like most of Pyun's movies- overly short, high on inane dialog, and taking place on maybe three or four sets tops. I guess a good amount of action happened, but like many of Pyun's films, you feel almost like nothing happened. This movie shares many kinships with the dystopian themes of 'Cyborg' and Pyun's best realized work 'Nemesis,' but there doesn't seem to be too much room to explore them here because everybody spends half the movie talking or waiting for the ten minute spaghetti western guitar theme to stop before they draw on each other. It's obvious watching this that Pyun was heavily influenced by Sergio Leoni in the feel and way he sets up the exposition and action, and I can't say it was a total failure. He pulls it off quite well, but again, the movie is just too short (with the five minute closing credits, it runs shorter than 75 minutes).

    I am a fan of this because I saw it back in the day, but I watched it again recently with 'Nemesis' and Cyborg and found that it lacks 'Nemesis'' substance, and the drive-in fun of 'Cyborg.' Nonetheless, there are worse movies you could be watching (like Good Luck Chuck).
  • September 28, 2008
    Robots can't breath -- Yet they do in this movie. Nice....

    And the main robot is a middle-aged looking fellow who after getting shot in the head goes on a rampage to stop all the evil in the robotic world, and as with all the continuity issues with this movie I wouldn't be supri...( read more)sed if Omega did it out of the kindness of his heart.

    I will say though, if you like picking out continuity issues and glaring plotholes then you've chosen the right movie!
  • April 28, 2008
    Director Albert Pyun and Rutger Hauer try their hand at Yojimbo. Would could go wrong?

    Well, everything. There isn't a single thing to like about this movie. Albert Pyun is well-known as someone who can't direct, and poor old Rutger has seen better days. The main fight scene...( read more) is depicted through shadows fighting on the wall. Seriously.

    I challenge you to find a worse remake of Yojimbo. Even Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis looks like a work of art next to Omega Doom.
  • November 12, 2007
    Great Rutger Hauer performance but a not so great movie.
  • June 27, 2007
    haha i watch this on scfi the other day lol
  • May 3, 2007
    oh loved it...a fine b movie
  • February 12, 2007
    more like Omega Turd

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