
After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place. He tries to convince both sides to join forces in search of the weapons, all the while having a hidden agenda, and an affinity ... (Full plot summary below)
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After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place. He tries to convince both sides to join forces in search of the weapons, all the while having a hidden agenda, and an affinity for one of the local droids.
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| User ReviewMarc BGreat B-Class take on the post apocalyptic world, took me forever to get a hold of, Definitely Worth having a copy. |
| User ReviewJohn TThis was pretty good. The cover blows and makes it look like a Russian flick, but it's about a apocalyptic future and robots fighting. It's worth a peek. -Cyber-Punk |
| User ReviewGreen PDespite it being made in 1996, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the rather naffly named "Omega Doom" was a product of ten years earlier with its post-apocalyptic cyber-gothic feel. But despite that, and a few cheesy lines here and there, I think it's a small piece of genius. With no humans in this story of a land devastated by android wars where pockets of robots are still fighting it out amongst the ruins, the plot centres around Rutger Haur's soldier robot entering the rubble of a town where two factions of robots - one a race of female cyber-Goth assassins, and the other reminiscent of a gang of outlaws from a Western - are poised in the middle of a standoff. Omega Doom - Haur's character - teams up with a disembodied robot head (who has several failed and incredibly slapstick attempts throughout the film to find a suitable new body and legs) and plots to break the standoff. It's a film where, like Bladerunner and the much later I,Robot but without the laziness of the CGI effects, robots try to come to terms with and reflect upon their human-ness. Omega Doom is a small scale film shot in a small-scale environment with the bare minimum of locations, but this gives it a theatrical edge and works for it very well. The lack of CGi means actors having to do old-fashioned "robotics" to look like androids, something that they carry off very well, and a few shards of metal make up protruding here and there with the occasional spark, is surprisingly effective to make them seem wholly non-human. I often think that the lower-budget movies (Albert Pyun was faced with serious budget cuts while making this) carry a lot of atmosphere the big productions can't pull off as the director is forced into a closer relationship with the characters and setting to enable oit to do what he wants without being able to simply throw money at it. Omega Doom is a great film for sci-fi B-Movie buffs or fans of early cyber-goth. |
| User ReviewMatthew MI was disappointed in this film. I had some expectations considering that it starred Rutger Hauer but it did not really matter. The movie was just slow and had very little interest to it at all. It was a short film as well and still was very slow. It felt like there was no real beginning or end. I had no idea who to root or whatever. It was just sad to watch maybe one or two funny parts. The head was really annoying. Overall, I was really bored and the story was just did not seem to add up to anything. |
| User ReviewZaar DI saw this on TV years ago and have been desperately trying to find it ever since. Hilariously bad. |
| User ReviewDonny KAn interesting take on the typical sci-fi movie where the robots are terrified by the uprising of the human race. Rutger Hauer played a robot who seems to be of a higher purpose in the movie. |
| User ReviewLurple JPost-apocalyptic cyberpunk western? Can't possibly go wrong with this movie! Hilariously bad movie. |
| User ReviewPrivate UGreat Rutger Hauer performance but a not so great movie. |
| User ReviewEkkehard LNo matter what people often say about albert pyuns movie's, i often find them very entertaining and extreamly atmospheric, this one is another post apocaliptic tale about about groups of robots terrified of a human invasion and therefore are looking for some weapons to fight them with. excellent soundtrack too. |
| User Reviewexplodingboy1989Starring 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 Pyun's MO: obnoxious, wise-cracking female cyborgs, dystopian/post-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 spagetti western guitar theme to stop before they draw on each other. It's obvious watching this that Pyun was heavily influenced by Sergio Leon 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. 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). |