ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Boba_Fett1138 I watched this movie expecting to see an even worse movie than "The Omega Code", of which this movie is a sequel. "The Omega Code" was really one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I don't even remember what it was about, or what happened in it. It was that forgettable and bad. Not bad in a funny- or cheesy campy kind of way, it was just plain bad. I was surprised- and have to admit that "Megiddo: The Omega Code 2" is a far better movie, that at least entertains, although it obviously also is far from a brilliant- or must-see movie.The movie didn't really began well. The movie seemed like an huge "The Omen" rip-off and just literally used that movie its main premise. A child who turns out to be the devil himself, the child who kills his own father by throwing him of the balcony, the devil going to military school and wants to take over the world through his political power, Armageddon and even the town of Megiddo plays a prominent role. They only changed a couple of minor things to avoid being called a total "The Omen" rip-off but the resemblances are still too obvious all to consider this movie an original one. The movie in the beginning also dragged on for too long and the story flow was poor. Really were all those sequences of the devil at military school and his childhood really necessary for the story? But when things and the story are finally starting to take shape and Michael York and Michael Biehn become the real main characters, the movie turns into a pretty descent thriller about the world's Apocalypse.Sure, it's far from credible all and the movie features a bit too many implausibilities and other silly moments. such as all the references to the German-Nazi regime were too overdone all. It's getting a bit tiresome and cheap, all those movies falling back on that time period. but by thriller standards this movie really isn't a bad one. The Christianity themes only get a bit annoying and too overdone toward the end of the movie. I remember that the first movie was much worse and annoying when it came down to the religious undertone of the whole movie.The Apocalypse is of course movie-wise a pretty interesting concept to use. The movie handles the concept well. It takes its time to build up and shape things. It builds up to the movie its spectacular climax, in which some of the worlds biggest superpowers (Americans, Chinese, the World Union, which is the army of Satan/Stone Alexander on Earth) clash. It results in an huge and surprisingly good looking climatic battle.Michael York obviously seemed to be enjoying himself playing in this movie as the bad guy for a change. Michael Biehn is also good for most part, although he is far from believable when he acts as and becomes the president of the United States. The movie also further more features R. Lee Ermey, Guy Siner and Udo Kier in some good and smaller roles.The movie is a mixed bag when it comes down to its visual looking. Obviously this is no big-budget movie and that shows in its sets, action sequences and special effects. Yet at the same time the movie also has some impressive and good looking effects as well. It makes the movie look unbalanced. At the one moment laughable at the other impressive. The same goes for its story and the movie in general actually; laughable at times but at others impressive. It doesn't make "Megiddo: The Omega Code 2" the most consistent, or most watchable movie around.Definitely better than the first, so I can recommend this movie, also since this movie can also be viewed apart as a standalone movie. But the whole subject is still handled better in the Omen movies, for if you're interested in it.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Rachael-Siobhan So tonight I watched this movie for a lack of alternative evening endeavours or bearable programmes; more out of sheer boredom, to be honest. Wile my boredom wouldn't fade away - and I was waiting for that to happen, as I expected this to be an action inspired movie about the end of times, particularly given the cast -, this most terrible movie gradually turned most hilarious.The acting is over the top as if even the actors couldn't take this effort seriously, the special effects remind me of late 90s CGI as one would find it in the animated sequences of role-playing adventure games, and the director obviously has never heard about dramatisation or narration. Suspending disbelief won't help you with this movie; the great arc of the Book of Revelations has been rendered a mess; and the Antichrist is about as terrifying as Tinky-Winky, the teletubby. That means you won't find anything frightening about him at all, and moreover he is neither a deceitful nor evil nor smart, just a hoax of devil.The love story is soddingly dry, and while there is emphasis, there is little empathy. I was hoping that somewhere, somehow, by God's intervention perhaps, suspense would emerge in this movie; but the final scenes just stayed as uninspired as the rest of the film. The end felt particularly like a cop-out - a sudden intervention by God, that and who never was indicated before, a classic deus ex machina, that was no salvation, just dodgy mechanics - and BOOM! the movie's over.There is no doubt that this film had an enormous budget; it's sad to see that this was used to no avail. Well, that's not true: It shows a hideous mixture of hooray patriotism (US), xenophobia and prejudice (towards UN and EU) and a caricature of Christianity, i.e. an appalling lack of understanding about anything as regards the nature of politics, religion or faith.In the end this movie was just so bad, that it was most hilarious to watch the actors (and CGI characters) stumble from one mess into another. I asked myself for whom but fundamentalist Christians such pretense of film had been produced - I did so jokingly, and it amazes me, shocks me, that this audience really accepts such sorry waste of time. This film is not worth your time, rather read in the Revelations.

joe-1265 I was hoping that I would at least see a film that was well made, and I'm not too difficult to please. Why can't the Americans ( who can make excellent films ) botch up so important a subject by getting the thing so wrong. The story was a mess, unrecognisable from the Bible account, the filming was poor and the acting half-hearted. I can only think the cast were so appalled at the script that they had to follow that they were demoralised from the start. In a country which is Christian, with a good portion of its public who know the bible, why do film-writers have to obliterate an account so powerful and replace it with something far less. Deliberately changing ( while presenting it as )the Biblical story of Revelation is something I would not wish to have to explain to God. This film I could not show to anyone...My hope was that I would be able to.

katt101 Most of the reviews here seem to be written by Godless mockers who are just trying to be smart *sses. Although in order to make it interesting the movie has added a bunch of junk about computer "codes" the movie really does seem to do a good job following Biblical prophecy. Hal Lindsey who is a well known expert on biblical prophecy was an adviser. First read the book of Daniel then read the Book of Revelation. By the way this movie has nothing whatsoever to do with Nostradamus. The Movie would have been better if the sequel "Omega code" had been bundled with it. Thats really all I have to say but since that is less than ten lines I need to babble on like the rest of the people here who want to make them selves seem important.