Omega Doom (1996)

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Omega Doom starts at some point in the near future as a war between humans & robots draws to a close, on the last day of the war a military robot named Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) is hit by a stray bullet which wipes his directives & programming out & he suddenly develops a mind of his own... Planet earth is a worn torn wasteland ruled by gangs of robots who now fight amongst themselves for total control of certain areas since there are no more humans to fight, although rumour has it that a group of humans survive & will one day rise from their hiding place & reclaim Earth using a vast stockpile of hidden weaponry (yeah, this really is as bad as it sounds). These days Omega Doom roams the Earth as a loner, he stumbles upon a rundown town where two sets of rival robots, the Droids & the Roms, are both searching for the supposedly hidden weapons but each side has limited knowledge where they are. Omega Doom decides to play them off each other in an attempt to discover the location of the weapons...Co-written & directed by Albert Pyun Omega Doom is one really bad film. The script by Pyun & Ed Naha steals it's main ideas & themes from other much better films such as the fight between man & machine taken from The Terminator (1984), the spaghetti western style loner drifting into town & playing two gangs off each other stolen directly from Yojimbo (1961) & countless other westerns, the soulless robot who suddenly gains human emotion that has been done countless times including Short Circuit (1986) which probably isn't the best example but you understand what I'm trying to say. So besides not having an original bone in it's body Omega Doom is also really slow, tedious & boring & I almost fell asleep watching the thing. There are big problems with the story too, nothing is really explained that well & Rutger Hauer's character is just puzzling as he isn't given any sort of motivation or purpose other than the vague fact he wants to create a peaceful Earth by making everyone kill each other! Sure, I can see the logic in that! It takes itself far too seriously & the whole sorry film is a bore from beginning to end, I'm sorry but as far as I'm concerned it's as simple & straight forward as that.Director Pyun was obviously working with a low budget which is no excuse, the entire film is set in one city block, neither 'gang' seem to have more than three members, the fight & action scenes are pathetic, there's no excitement, atmosphere, violence, gore & a war that has virtually destroyed the entire planet is depicted by having Rutger Hauer kill one person in front of an explosion! There is one other highly annoying aspect to Omega Doom, that is every robot makes stupid & irritating whirring & pneumatic noises when they walk or move except Rutger Hauer's character who doesn't for some reason. Remember when I said there was one more highly annoying aspect of Omega Doom? Well I lied because there were two & the second one being the cringe worthy comic relief robot who keeps getting decapitated.Technically the film is average, director Pyun films in the usual dark blue tones & bright orange candle light ones that are so popular in this type of film (Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) anyone?). It was shot in Slovakia apparently, not that you would have known. The sets are just run down houses & basements, the production design is bland & dull with a standard low budget post apocalyptic look about it. The special effects are poor as well. The acting was brilliant considering the cast were supposed to be stiff & emotionless robots, damn they did a good job!Omega Doom has to be one of the worst sci-fi films I've seen, I hated it. It bored me to tears, it was a complete rip-off of various other much better films & I'm just glad I didn't waste any of my hard earned money on it. This is definitely one to avoid unless you're an insomniac as Omega Doom will get you to sleep in double quick time!

If you like ridiculously shitty movies then go out and find this it is the worst movie I have ever seen and has absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. If you enjoy terrible movies then you need to see this nothing will ever top it. I have just been informed that I need 10 lines in my comment so stop reading now because the rest is going to be filler. I really have nothing else to write I don't know why I should have to but if those are the guidelines I will have to do it no matter how ridiculous they might be. There's only a couple of lines left to fill this really isn't that terrible, it is however incredibly retarded. I guess I need to fill the 10th line as well so now this better work. I know to you it won't look like 10 lines but in this editor it is now more than 10.

I caught this on the Action Channel today. The only reason I did is because Rutger Hauer is in it.Basically, it's another stereotypical Western set in the future.I have to say that for a low-budget movie that had no plot, script, special effects, or a real soundstage for a set, it was pretty bad. Omega Doom walks into a broken down Epcot Center in the future. The Armageddon has come and humans are in hiding, trying to re-build the world. Said world is now populated mostly by killer androids and their drone servants.Two rival tribes of war androids are camped out and looking for a mythical cache of weapons that they can use to finally destroy the humans.By tribes, I mean that each group has only three or four members. Omega Doom convinces him that he knows where the weapons are, and separates them so he can destroy them, one by one.One tribe looks like the usual Mad Max rejects, the other consists of identical women that look like Jonette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde. One of them survives and becomes peaceful.And the movie's over. Just like that.All of the women in this film were very intriguing and looked great! They're the only thing that kept me watching the whole way through. Rutger was doing his usual good job of acting. He just wasn't doing too much talking.Watch only if you have nothing better to do.

Omega Doom rocks with cheesy-ness. Any one who likes bad movies this is for them. I like this movie in a MST3K kinda way. It has bad special effects, bad acting, and a bad plot. If you like abuse then this movie is for you. The one good thing about this movie is the sound effect when the robots are about to fight.