Recent Reviews for Omen III: The Final Conflict
Recent Reviews
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MCT:October 10, 2008Okay ladies and gents, this film loses major points for somehow forgetting that if Damien was born in 1976 - how the fuck could he be 32 in 1984?? Um, 'cuse me guys but even my maths isn't THAT bad. If we were supposed to be in the future, you could have at least attempted to make it look 2008ish, not so blatently 80s.
So, getting over that... this film was needed but perhaps unnecessary. Ok, we get it. Good vs evil, good usually wins. This movie was even a little preachy for my liking. No scares, simply ominous killings and a Sam Neill Damien who (HERE BE SPOILERS) was killed a little easy after all that... we endured 3 installments of this just for him to go out like THAT?
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MCT:August 17, 2008This is the weakest of the three Omen films so far. Its not bad in itself, it just doesn't bring anything to the two predecessors. Sam Neill plays a very convincing nasty piece of work AKA "Damien". This one just doesn't have that edge of your seat, suspense and terror that the first movie did.
NB: Apparently there is a fourth film in the "Omen" series, I'm not sure I am prepared to watch it? -
MCT:August 17, 2008worst out of the 3. they progressively made less of an impact on me. i usually like sam neill as he seems to have had such a varied acting career. he didn't do anything special here though. just said his lines...
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MCT:August 3, 2008There are very few people who remember their very first Horror Movies. Sure Movies which freaked them out but not the first ones. lol. However This was my very first Horror Movie and I enjoyed it and totally adored Sam Neill in the Movie. I dont care some people say how terrible this Movie was. I enjoyed it. The only Scene in the Movie that still Freaks me out, is where the Priest gets killed. Eeeww. Now that was disgusting.
Quotes
Damien Thorn: Suffer the little children to come unto me. Your words, Nazarene. Not mine.
Damien Thorn: If Abraham was ready to slay his own son for the love of his God, why won't you do the same for the love of mine? -
MCT:July 1, 2008"I now command you to seek out and destroy the Nazarene child. Slay the Nazarene... and I shall reign forever. Fail... and I perish."
According to the law of deteriorating sequels, films get worse as each new instalment is created. The Final Conflict is further irrefutable verification of this theory. The first two instalments in the Omen series were not among the genre's finest movies, but stood well on their respective standalone merits. The central problem of The Final Conflict (which marks the third The Omen film) is its tendency to be overwhelmingly silly - no scares, dumb characters, horrible plot points, and little sense of fidelity to the Book of Revelations on which the series is based. The artistic positives of the first film are also disregarded, with bucket loads of nothing but violence and gore as a substitute. Glaring continuity errors plague this film as well. I mean, the year is apparently 1982 and Damien Thorn (now played by Sam Neill) is supposedly 32. In the first movie he was born in 1966...can anyone else notice the unbearably distracting continuity fault? If Damien was 32 then the year should be the late 1990s. At that stage, you'd might as well regard your political leader as the Antichrist!
The Final Conflict now follows Damien Thorn - a.k.a. the offspring of Satan - as an adult who is steadily running the Thorn industries conglomerate as the company extends its far-reaching arms all over the world. The film opens with a salvage operation in Chicago to recover the artefacts that survived the destruction of the Thorn Museum that burnt down at the end of Damien: The Omen II. During the operation, the seven daggers of Megiddo are recovered. Said daggers are the only things on Earth that can kill the Antichrist. They are soon circulated to an assembly of seven monks, headed by Father DeCarlo (Brazzi), who embark on a mission to rid the world of Damien Thorn. Meanwhile, Damien flexes his political muscle as he is appointed Ambassador to England. The seven monks begin executing multiple hysterically ill-conceived endeavours to assassinate the Antichrist. All signs begin pointing to the possibility that that Nazarene has returned in the form of a child in the British Isles. This begins another ludicrous sub-plot as Damien sets out to eliminate the Nazarene who weakens and diminishes his influence and ability on the world with each passing day. Meanwhile, a dumb romantic sub-plot is tossed into the mix as Damien becomes interested in a journalist named Kate Reynolds (Harrow).
The Final Conflict depends far too much on the showcase of effects and innovative (gory) methods of killing different characters...all without tension or scares. Jerry Goldsmith's score is the only aspect that creates a somewhat intense atmosphere. Every other aspect of the filmmaking leaves a lot to be desired. The horror genre that was once prominent has now transformed into a film perplexingly lingering in an indefinite genre between 'horror' and 'drama'. There is insufficient horror to be part of the genre, and there is inadequate drama to be classified as part of that genre. The gore effects have been amplified and look superior to those used in the previous films; however the screenwriting leaves much to be desired. Horror fans will be left disappointed and disorientated, fans of the Omen series will be left even more devastated, while religious nuts will condemn the film! Why? The source material is disregarded while spiralling towards the film's silly conclusion that ultimately confirms this as a wasted opportunity. The ending seems far too rushed and looks underwhelming. I was laughing! I wasn't at all scared!
Overall, The Final Conflict is an extremely disappointing addition to a potentially outstanding horror series. The series of events were occasionally fascinating, but ultimately very silly. Like the first two movies the cast is very impressive, with Sam Neill effective as the Antichrist. The actors do everything in their capability to improve the woeful script they are working with. If only the first film concluded with the execution of the Antichrist...if that happened, then the world wouldn't have been exposed to two below average sequels. At least there's finally a sense of closure. Followed by a TV movie a decade later. -
MCT:May 24, 2008Bored out of my skull, plus horrible effects and less than convincing acting. Don't waste your time.
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MCT:April 8, 2008
Not as good as the first two but still nothing to scoff at. Damien has pretty much become what he was supposed to be and now has to be stopped.
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MCT:March 23, 2008
A slightly disappointing end to the original Omen trilogy but there are a few memorable scenes and Sam Neill is well-cast as the adult Damien Thorn.
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MCT:March 21, 2008I would have enjoyed this film more if some of the Catholic religion things were more explained.
Like the ending for one, where Jesus was supposed to be reborn as Damien's assistants son, and you think his wife killed him but the priest says she didn't... and then you never see the baby again?
I mean Damien was born as a human boy, as was Jesus so why was Jesus all glorified in his former Jesus glory at the end of the film?
or was that God?
I dunno that was somewhat confusing to me.
I really enjoyed Sam Neil as Damien, the scene where he is Damien gets trapped on the bridge when he is fox hunting, I love the scene where the priest is coming towards him and all the hunting dogs are staring at him and then rip him apart.
Also the scene where Damien is mocking the wooden Jesus in his attic, is beautifully written and shot.
The music was a little strange in this film, and some of the scenes tended to drag a bit.
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MCT:March 7, 2008
This was too politicall for my taste I think the creep factor was not there b/c the guy was alll grown up and we all know kids are creeper.
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MCT:January 16, 2008i don't remember dis one alot. i remember da opening sequence though, when buddy eats the shotgun in da teet. yeouch!
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MCT:December 21, 2007
Tiene a su favor que termina decentemente la trilogia original y Sam Neil haciendo una muy buena actuacion, pero al final hay varios detalles que no terminan de convencer.
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MCT:November 25, 2007
Coiuld this be happening in our upcoming election? I thought it had already happened but I may have been incorrect. Anyway, Sam Neill did a great job the elder Damien. This was profound and creepy.
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MCT:November 11, 2007
A fairly good end to the trilogy, although it's a shame the threatened armaggeddon never comes off (as in the later novels). Sam Neill puts in a good performance as the Devil's son and is surrounded by decent character actors. However, how Jerry Goldsmith didn't win an Oscar for the score, I will never know. It's absolutely amazing and proves music really can improve a film (just imagine a score-less Psycho, for example).
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MCT:October 24, 2007
I damn near wet my pants laughing at one scene in this movie. It just killed any chance for it to be scary in any capacity: You know how any enemy of Damien's is magically plagued with preternaturally bad luck? Some guy on a catwalk gets tangled in a cable and swings upside-down by his ankle across a TV soundstage while Damien is being interviewed. Everyone's screaming and freaking out, while Damien is just sitting there staring at him, looking like a badass. The guy then gets somehow wrapped in plastic and set on fire, all while swinging back and forth. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The rest of the movie wasn't bad, but its credibility just went out the window in that single scene.
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MCT:October 11, 2007
Good till you get to the end- I mean really is the son of Satan really gonna go out like such a little bitch cause of some sunlight and a stained glass window? I don't think so
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MCT:October 4, 2007
Sam Neill's performance made this movie great. I'll forgo the FX to watch his cold, chilling persona.
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MCT:September 26, 2007
I was expecting more from this, especially due to the build up from the first two movies. The ultimate battle between good and evil: the son of Satan vs the son of God, the movie ended up coming across as a little weird and a little disappointing
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MCT:September 18, 2007
Música muy inferior a la de la primera parte; ausencia de la esperada batalla final; el Anticristo jamás gobierna.
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MCT:September 9, 2007
In my opinion this third film doesn't really compare to the brilliance of the first film, I found it really slow in places with a lot of dialogue making it seem action less. However I did like the fox chasing with the horses some of the camera angles and tracking shots were done well making it for me my favourite scene. Still not a bad film for its time with some brilliant acting especially from Sam Neill who did a fantastic job as Damien.
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MCT:August 16, 2007
Third entry to the Omen series is respectable but a little dull. The son of the Devil was more scary somehow as a child/adolescent. The young Sam Neill tries hard but is not as intimidating. Some decent action set-pieces.
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MCT:August 7, 2007
the final movie in a trilogy about the rise and fall of the antichrist. cool movies,,,very well put together
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MCT:July 31, 2007
Again, not as good as the original, but a good end to the Omen trilogy (Yes, I know there's a fourth one...)
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MCT:July 14, 2007
Although it still has all the elements of the previous installments, the fact that Damien isn't a child anymore takes slightly from an excellent series.
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MCT:July 3, 2007Damien becomes the president and gets a small army of beagles to kill a guy! I want my two hours back!
