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Robert Thorn is a senior American diplomat whose wife, Katherine, endures a difficult delivery where their newborn child has died. Thorn knows the news will devastate Katherine, who had suffered two previous miscarriages. The hospital priest presents Thorn with another child born that night, whose mother died in childbirth. The priest compels Thorn to take the infant boy as his own; Katherine will never know the truth, and their son, which they name Damien, will be raised as their flesh and blood. As the child turns five, unsettling events begin to occur: Damien's nanny hangs herself at the youngster's birthday party; a strange priest brings dire warnings to Thorn; a children's trip to the zoo results in a panicked frenzy; Damien becomes hysterical during a drive to church; and blurred movements in a series of photographs portend shocking deaths. Enter Mrs. Baylock, Damien's new nanny, who seems to have a preordained devotion to the child. Then tragedy strikes closer to home. But only later does Thorn comprehend the truth: Damien is no ordinary child; he is the long-prophesized Anti-Christ. Now, Thorn must make the ultimate sacrifice to prevent the unspeakable terror that awaits the world.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Do yourselves a favour - see the vastly superior original first!
Believe me - I'm a film lover and have been driven to write this review after seeing this big piece of blandness! Ok it looks good and you can see where the money went but the acting in certain sequences from the lead couple Schrieber/Stiles is as wooden as the church seats in the final scenes with some ropey dialogue not helping at all.
This oddly cast pairing comes across as weak and this wasn't helped when I found myself thinking of the solid & believable performances from Gregory Peck & Lee Remick in the original.Even Mia Farrow can't better the truly terrifying Billie Whitelaw as the nanny - surely one of the most evil nannies in film history!!
Damien isn't really believable,looking more like he's waiting for someone to sit on the whoopee cushion - not a patch on the original kid Harvey Stephens who oozed evil.
In summary,nothing new has been brought to the table - the story is exactly the same as the original film but with mediocre actors/acting,which leads me to ask the question - was there really any point in a remake ? Of course some of the CG effects are what you'd expect but the only reason I can see for it's remake is that some overpaid,underworked ponytailed studio exec thought 'we've gotta remake the Omen and release it on 06/06/06.'
Seriously,this film stinks of this decision.
I gave this film 1 point as I couldn't go any lower.
It really is a pointless remake.
Believe me - I'm a film lover and have been driven to write this review after seeing this big piece of blandness! Ok it looks good and you can see where the money went but the acting in certain sequences from the lead couple Schrieber/Stiles is as wooden as the church seats in the final scenes with some ropey dialogue not helping at all.
This oddly cast pairing comes across as weak and this wasn't helped when I found myself thinking of the solid & believable performances from Gregory Peck & Lee Remick in the original.Even Mia Farrow can't better the truly terrifying Billie Whitelaw as the nanny - surely one of the most evil nannies in film history!!
Damien isn't really believable,looking more like he's waiting for someone to sit on the whoopee cushion - not a patch on the original kid Harvey Stephens who oozed evil.
In summary,nothing new has been brought to the table - the story is exactly the same as the original film but with mediocre actors/acting,which leads me to ask the question - was there really any point in a remake ? Of course some of the CG effects are what you'd expect but the only reason I can see for it's remake is that some overpaid,underworked ponytailed studio exec thought 'we've gotta remake the Omen and release it on 06/06/06.'
Seriously,this film stinks of this decision.
I gave this film 1 point as I couldn't go any lower.
It really is a pointless remake.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Whilst waiting for this DVD to come out, I fell into the trap of listening to the hype, new special effects, better story line and so on.
Having just watched the film I can tell you that it is so like the original that I see very little point in then making this version.
In 1976 I did what all should do, and read the book first, it was gripping and I loved it. I then watched the movie, was a little dissapointed but not everything in a book can be represented on the big screen.
I had great hopes for this new version as the one factor that tied ALL three Omen films together was.....the special effects. They were state of the art, and original, but this new version only has one very minor new angle on the effects it offers.
Lets hope if they remake the other Two films, that there is someone in the production team that has a little more imagination and can truly bring these films up to date
Having just watched the film I can tell you that it is so like the original that I see very little point in then making this version.
In 1976 I did what all should do, and read the book first, it was gripping and I loved it. I then watched the movie, was a little dissapointed but not everything in a book can be represented on the big screen.
I had great hopes for this new version as the one factor that tied ALL three Omen films together was.....the special effects. They were state of the art, and original, but this new version only has one very minor new angle on the effects it offers.
Lets hope if they remake the other Two films, that there is someone in the production team that has a little more imagination and can truly bring these films up to date
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The original Omen is an excellent film - endlessly re-watchable, tense, atmospheric and brilliantly acted (surely the person who has left a review saying the original was poorly acted mis-typed...?)
This film, like so many other pointless recent remakes like The Wicker Man, just illustrates the paucity of talent and creativity in Hollywood. Who possibly thought that a scene-by-scene remake of a classic 70s film would be a good idea? It would seem the only reason for this remake was to make the beheading scene much more explicit and gory. Which completely misses the point of the original - it didn't rely on gore, it relied on psychological terror and atmosphere to generate chills. This film is utterly bereft of any of the qualities that made the original. In fact, this is a perfect example of modern film-making (and TV production too) - flash, slick visuals with lots of deep shadows and colourful splashes and the odd jump cut and editing flourish. But the story is empty, the direction unengaging, and the acting is wooden.
Gregory Peck was one of America's greatest actors. Lee Remick was an excellent actress (also see her performance in the under-rated 70s horror thriller, The Medusa Touch). Together they are compelling and believable as the Thorns. Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles cannot hold a candle to either original actor. They are so flat and unbelievable it is shocking. But this highlights another key problem with modern Hollywood - everyone's pretty, but no-one is remotely interesting or convincing.
The cast list looks impressive, but no-one is memorable or believable other than perhaps Thewlis, though even he cannot achieve anything like the performance of David Warner.
This film is important in some ways - it perfectly underscores the decline of Hollywood over the last decade.
This film, like so many other pointless recent remakes like The Wicker Man, just illustrates the paucity of talent and creativity in Hollywood. Who possibly thought that a scene-by-scene remake of a classic 70s film would be a good idea? It would seem the only reason for this remake was to make the beheading scene much more explicit and gory. Which completely misses the point of the original - it didn't rely on gore, it relied on psychological terror and atmosphere to generate chills. This film is utterly bereft of any of the qualities that made the original. In fact, this is a perfect example of modern film-making (and TV production too) - flash, slick visuals with lots of deep shadows and colourful splashes and the odd jump cut and editing flourish. But the story is empty, the direction unengaging, and the acting is wooden.
Gregory Peck was one of America's greatest actors. Lee Remick was an excellent actress (also see her performance in the under-rated 70s horror thriller, The Medusa Touch). Together they are compelling and believable as the Thorns. Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles cannot hold a candle to either original actor. They are so flat and unbelievable it is shocking. But this highlights another key problem with modern Hollywood - everyone's pretty, but no-one is remotely interesting or convincing.
The cast list looks impressive, but no-one is memorable or believable other than perhaps Thewlis, though even he cannot achieve anything like the performance of David Warner.
This film is important in some ways - it perfectly underscores the decline of Hollywood over the last decade.
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