The Omega Man Reviews and Ratings



  • December 17, 2009
    Having taken a look at Will Smith's recent remake, I thought I'd check out the 70's version of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. Instead of having vampires as the book, they change the villains to be some albino religious nut-jobs who want to kill anybody that's normal. They'...( read more)re far less scary than the zombies in Will Smith's version that's for sure. Charlton Heston is great as Robert Neville - an emotionless scientist, alone in the world and happy to shoot the Charles Manson-like Family members every chance he has. I think it's one of his best works. It looks dated but holds up well. It's still a worthwhile post-apocalyptic movie to watch.
  • December 12, 2009
    Great story, great concept. Unfortunately, the fx are dated and the movie moves a little slowly at times.Although, I do like Heston`s post apocalyptic swagger.
  • December 12, 2009
    well ummn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch....its got a good cast of actors/actressess thorughout this movie....i think that charlton heston, anthony zerbe, rosalind cash, lincoln kilpatrick, paul koslo, eric laneuville play good roles...( read more)/parts throughout this movie...i think that the director of this sci-fi/drama/action/adventure/classics movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...i think that this is a really enjoyable movie 2 watch with a good cast throughout this movie
  • December 8, 2009
    Re-write (and better filmization, although rewriting) version of "The Last Man on Earth". Kinda misses the point of the book though.
  • November 13, 2009
    the second version of I am Legend. well done for it's time
  • October 18, 2009
    This is another one of those 70's sci-fi movies with a social message. It is somewhat dated, but the themes are universal, such as letting technology destroy mankind, class struggle, etc. I like how they were able to film in downtown LA and kept the streets empty. No CGI here, ...( read more)you really get the feel that Robert Neville is kinda of the last man on earth. Great performances by Heston and Rosalind Cash.
  • October 18, 2009
    One of the original "I Am Legend" movies and is not very good. Actually the earliest version "The Last Man On Earth" with Vincent Price was better than this. Terrible musical score and not believable ghouls...the ones left sensitive to light and white faced by the germ warfare o...( read more)f the big war. This was annoying at times and the screenplay had some holes. OH, and THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT A "PG" MOVIE AS STATED....there was almost full nudity and quite a bit of bad language...I haven't seen a PG movie like that before!
  • October 18, 2009
    Cool movie! first one I watched in Blu ray *hehehe*

    I like how he was chillin to easy listening music on 8-Track up in his crib while those Ghouls on the street plotted to wack him.
  • October 15, 2009
    fucking love this film... fuck" i am legend "
  • October 3, 2009
    Classic Heston, this is the original movie that Will Smith remade. a must see
  • September 30, 2009
    Bad acting, dodgy sets and Charlton Heston. Not the Daddy of all B-Movies, more of an Uncle really!
  • September 17, 2009
    Richard Matheson's novel gets a fair and square adaptation, yet the outcome left me cold. What happened to the overall goodness of The Last Man on Earth (1964) starring Vincent Price? The Omega Man starts wonderfully, opening with a totally dystopian feeling through forced wide s...( read more)hots, but the second half was pretty much unsatisfying. The promising apocalyptic feeling promoted since the first half hour was shattered. Satisfying conclusion, better than the weak one given in I Am Legend (2007). Charlton Heston knows how to kick ass as well as he parted the Red Sea, but a completely isolated world thanks to biological warfare is a concept not to be wasted. A revisited dystopian perspective whose concept would be numerously re-used since the new millennium... influential, but slightly disappointing.

    66/100
  • September 6, 2009
    Based on the Novel "I Am Legend" and better than the recent 2007 adaption by far, which I rated 3.5.

    Review soon.
  • August 20, 2009
    A film well worth watching. The second of three attemps to turn "I Am Legend", by Richard Matheson to film. As with the first (The Last Man On Earth), this one is not perfect. In fact it suffers from a feel that often permiated movies of that time. To hard to explain, but I'm su...( read more)re many of my contemporaries know what I mean. Still, well worth a watch. I love much of the work of Charlton Heston (Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, Ben Hur, etc.) and he didn't disapoint me in this one.
  • August 13, 2009
    Yet another one I know I've seen but can't remember. As the basis for "I am Legend" its one I have to find
  • August 8, 2009
    Will Smith's version of the last-man-left-in-the-world was way better. For starters, the zombie/vampire things in Smith's version were way scarier than the black cloak and sunglasses-wearing nocturnal albinos in Charlton Heston's version. The movie takes place in post-apocalyptic...( read more) Los Angeles where biological warfare has either killed everyone or left them pale, eyeless, and sensitive to light (despite the fact that they spend the whole movie surrounded by fire.) Only one man, played by Charlton Heston, is left unharmed by the plague because he made a vial of vaccine which made him immune to the zombie disease. He finds a woman who hasn't been infected (Rosalind Cash) and what goes on between them (being the last man and woman) is pretty much what would be obvious and expected. There were many Christ motifs, like Heston taking a crucifixion-posture throughout the film. He sacrificed his life and gave the remaining people on earth salvation by giving his precious life-saving blood.
  • July 26, 2009
    Blacksploitatian meets zombie/vampire/post apocolyptic Chuck Heston. I try and get every body I know to watch this thing.
  • June 20, 2009
    This was bad, but it was also to funny in it's ridiculousness to not like on some sort of camp level, especially when Rosalind Cash shows up pretending to be a mannequin. Then it suddenly turns into a horror version of "Hair" without the music. I tried to read the classic book by...( read more) Richard Matheson, and I couldn't seem to get very far into it.
  • June 18, 2009
    Super freaky movie...
  • June 7, 2009
    Will Smith in I am legend was terrible .I reccomend this flik instead..
  • June 5, 2009
    saw this. it lacks because of the budget and time period, but it's interesting. A lot of racial and political subtext.
  • June 3, 2009
    A downright barmy reimagining of "I Am Legend" - it rests entirely on Heston's wonderfully unhinged performance.
  • May 26, 2009
    An excellent movie of good olden days
  • May 13, 2009
    Omega Man came out a year before I was born, based on the book I AM LEGEND. A disease has changed everyone but Charlton Heston into aggrivated albinos. During the day they hide out but at night they come out and wreak havoc on the city. Charlton lives high on the hog with every a...( read more)menity because he is the last sane person. Its a good movie and done surprisingly well for the time.
  • May 2, 2009
    I wanted to watch this because when i told everyone i loved I Am Legend they were like "Oh thats crap The Omega Man is better". Well now i can say "No The Omega Mans crap".

    I was expecting this to be scary but it was silly and funny,Charlton Hestons hiding in his house whilst...( read more) "The Family" celebrate bonfire night in the street. I think i would of gone to join them for a laugh. Also right at the start of the movie when Charlton Heston is driving around the empty streets i noticed a normal person walking around in the sun lol.
  • May 2, 2009
    Perhaps Matheson's I Am Legend is just not for adaptation? This is even more wrong headed than the Will Smith effort. Gratuitous shots of Heston's sweaty chest are chilling; everything else isn't.
  • April 17, 2009
    Quite intriguing for all the wrong moves!Sagal's one hit wonder was probably a critical failure back in the 70's,a minor cult in the new millennium,thus it's no surprise that a variant trend (fuck off I Am Legend) has been gracing our theaters with dystopian themes/corrupt societ...( read more)ies.Heston is way more dude than he'd ever want himself to be yet the whole story progresses in an incredible...delight!
  • April 14, 2009
    better than I am legend. A classic hit!
  • April 3, 2009
    Pretty cheesy by today's standards. The music does not go with the movie at all. The ending was stupid.
  • March 16, 2009
    CH is a CHeezy actor. And why so many car crashes?
  • March 10, 2009
    I really hated this film to the full extent. Heston is an awful protrayal of the character Robart Neville. He is very dull from start to finish. The story is completly changed like the 2007 version "I Am Legend", seeing the vampires were like they were in the book, but I don't e...( read more)ven care about that! I Am Legend was 100 times better than this film could have ever dreamed of being.
  • March 10, 2009
    Absolutely stunning! I love old 70's movies they are by far the best! Well done Charlton RIP. Brilliant movie!:D
  • February 27, 2009
    I feel that Omega Man was fantastic, with the qualifier that I mean that the Omega Man himself was fantastic.

    I was so very ready to accept that Charlton Heston's character was cynical beyond redemption, a self-centred survivalist beyond compassion, that it was a downright shock...( read more) when the second act came along and he started babysitting the brood. I very nearly came to expect them to sit in a circle singing Kumbaya. Not that I was hoping this would turn into some silly Deathwish style movie with nothing going on but Heston killing the Family; I'm just saying that the involvement of the children and the woman was pretty sappy. Heston played Neville's cocksure swagger with such apropos 70s flair that I will definitely be rewatching the first half of this movie again.

    In a hypothetical scenario: One morning you woke up and realized you were completely alone, for no reason, no wars, no virus that killed off the rest of humanity, no mutants or vampires coming out at night, just you and animals left on Earth.

    What would you do?
  • February 12, 2009
    I loved this movie as a teenager and, although it's dated some now, I still prefer it to the uber-glossy, all style and no substance 'I Am Legend'. I'd certainly be interested in reading the original book or seeing the film 'Last Man Alive' to see which version uses the most lice...( read more)nce in the storytelling. I think the reason I prefer 'Omega Man' (apart from my fondness for 70s sci-fi) is the way 'The Family' are portrayed. There's some investigation into their motivation and their residual human nature - albeit done in a rather naff, hooded albino way. In 'I Am Legend' the contaminated people were presented as nothing more than zombies - although the film frustratingly hinted at something more but never explored it further. Also, he may be a gun-toting red neck, but it's hard to beat Charlton Heston for an action lead man!
  • January 24, 2009
    ok reasons i loved the classic 70s powerful black chick, charlton hestons jungle love scene, creepy albinos, ketchup blood, voice overs like a crappy porno, and for some reason whatever comes out of charlton hestons mouth sounds epic
  • January 7, 2009
    This film was based on the same book as I Am Legend but over 35 years earlier. It is weak, flat, and silly as heck, even for 1971. It actually pisses me off that they tried to pass this drivel off as Richard Matheson's story. Heston can only do so much in this clunker. Certain ol...( read more)der movies hold a nostalgic glee for me but I never got pat the cheese of this 1.
  • December 6, 2008
    This is a good movie

    Plot: Robert Neville, a doctor,due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a fe...( read more read more... )w hundred deformed, no...( read more)cturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricty, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.
  • November 28, 2008
    Not too bad, but so far Vincent Price was better.
  • November 22, 2008
    Often really ridiculous but still it has something I can't put my finger on.
    I'd probably rather watch this than I Am Legend.
  • November 16, 2008
    it wasn't too bad, not as good as the original though.
  • October 22, 2008
    This movie is so random, lol. I am Legend is a remake of this, so hopefully that'll be better. It's still worth a watch though, for laughs. The music is really great. Haha.
  • October 16, 2008
    Freaky and wierd, follows the book a little better (with much worse special effects) than the Will Smith remake. Heston is always good. There is even a flash of boobies, so you have that going for you.
  • October 14, 2008
    Defintely a 70s movie..and as outdated as orange shag carpeting. Acting is over the top, a musical score which seems to detract rather than enhance the action and drama. It is message-laden..if you can carve through the mountain of cheese, you may find some entertainment value.
  • September 29, 2008
    Excellent movie, byw
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