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Title: I Am Omega (2007)
Format: DVD
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Starring: Mark Dacascos, Geoff Meed, Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ryan Lloyd, and Joshua Schlegel
Director: Griff Furst
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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• Posted on 2009-09-30
  Read the book.
  
  "I Am Omega" (skip it)....rip off of "I Am Legend" which Will Smith puked out. (REALLLLLY skip it !!)
  
  Read the book frikkin book. "I Am Legend" Richard Matheson.
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-17
  Not as bad as most people say
  
  Although this film cannot compare to the likes of "I Am Legend," it is close to being as good as "The Omega Man." I enjoyed watching it and I thought the Zombies were well done. I could pick apart certain things like the two morons that drafted the star into their mission, or the fact that the two leads pick a convertible to flee in, but those things aside, most of the movie was very entertaining. It's true there was very little exposition about how things got the way they are, but there wasn't much in "The Last Man on Earth" either. Besides, we all know the story anyway! This is a typical Saturday night Sci-Fi Channel movie. And as most everyone knows, you have to take most of those movies with a grain of salt. They are still enjoyable though. So is this one.
  
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• Posted on 2009-06-20
  great movie for a sci fi
  
  idk why people gave it only one star its no 5 vstar but its a good 3 star its very similar to i am legend
  
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• Posted on 2009-05-14
  And today's secret ingredient is... ZOMBIES!
  
  I Am Omega (Griff Furst, 2006)
  
  It's often crossed my mind over the years that Iron Chef America has been on the air that Kitchen Stadium looks an awful lot like the kind of place that has a secret network of bunkers beneath it that could house important people if some sort of major world disaster struck. I now have all the evidence I need, as it seems Chairman Kaga's nephew is the last man on Earth.
  
  If you ever wondered what it would look like if the Shaw Brothers teamed up with Godfrey Ho to do an adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic (and much-adapted) novel I Am Legend, first off, I'd like to offer my condolences that you not only have far too much time on your hands, but that you also know who the Shaw Brothers are (and, even worse, who Godfrey Ho is). Second, I'd tell you to look no further, for it would look a lot like the dog of a movie. Mark Dacascos, who plays Kaga's fictional nephew on Iron Chef America, here plays Renchard, an analog of Robert Neville from the more faithful I Am Legend adaptations, but instead of a scientist looking for a cure for the disease that's swept the nation (and probably the world), here he's just trying to put an end to it, at least in his particular corner of the world (which is Oxnard, California), by blowing the city sky-high. Plans get complicated when he gets a distress call from Brianna, a woman trapped in the city (Jennifer Lee Wiggins, recently of the even worse The Bone Eater), and two would-be heroes from a supposed enclave of survivors in the mountains, Vincent and Mike (screenwriter Geoff Meed of Little Miss Sunshine and Ryan Lloyd of one of my favorite shorts of the last few years, Night of the Hell Hamsters), who have come to rescue her, but need Renchard's knowledge of the less-populated ways into the city.
  
  As you can probably tell, this is an even looser "adaptation" of Matheson's book than Night of the Living Dead was, but where that film can obviously be taken on its own merits, there's nothing here to suggest that Meed and Furst wanted to create anything more than a cheap Shaw Brothers-style exploitation/action flick. And taken in that light, it's at least passable, in that there's a decent amount of action, and Jennifer Lee Wiggins, for all that she can't act her way out of a paper bag, is certainly easy on the eyes. And with that said, Wiggins is probably the strongest member of this cast. I liked Ryan Lloyd a whole lot better when all he had to do was wear a giant bunny suit and look threatening. Dacascos... well, the less said about his performance, the better. The only sympathy I could garner for him was having to go from having his meals prepared by the world's finest chefs to eating a whole lot of MREs. Not that any actors, no matter how talented, could have done a great deal with the painfully inept script handed to them. Furst's direction is competent (certainly more so than it was on the only other Furst-directed movie I've had the misfortune to see, Basilisk: The Serpent King), but nothing more than that. Not that better direction could have saved this mess.
  
  For obvious reasons, it's a must-see for Iron Chef America fanatics. Everyone else can safely avoid wasting the ninety minutes of their lives they'd have otherwise spent watching this. * ½
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-22
  Third Rate Copy of A Second Rate Idea
  
  I AM OMEGA is a pale copy of a very original idea first seen in THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, then later in THE OMEGA MAN, then most recently in I AM LEGEND. Now director Geoff FURST tries to recreate the same suspense that Vincent Price so effortlessly showed in the original. Unfortunately, he has only Mark Dacascos to play the lead. Dacascos made his mark years ago in martial arts movies and has since tried to make the switch to straight drama. Based on a steady string of turkeys like this one, he made a poor career choice. Here, he is Renchard, one of the very few survivors of some unknown and unexplained plague that wiped out most of earth's population and has caused the rest to mutate into zombies who seek to feast on human flesh. Renchard shows little of the common sense that Vincent Price showed in THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. Where Price would barricade himself into his Fortress of Solitude, Renchard constructs a home that any third rate burglar could break into. He spends his days aimlessly until he receives an internet video feed from a woman who asks his help. We are not supposed to ask how the internet is still working years after society has collapsed. The plot founders as he meets a pair of ex-soldiers who ask him to help them locate her, when logic dictates that they could have found her on their own. Dacascos has frequent shoot em ups with assorted zombies, but there is no forward motion to the story. There is no climax or falling action: just shoot outs with zombies. You know that an action movie is in trouble when the hero gets upstaged by the Bad Guy. Dacascos simply does not know how to generate audience interest. He might rent THE LAST MAN ON EARTH to see how Vincent Price could force the audience to feel his pain. With Dacascos, we just did not care.
  
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