Megiddo - Omega Code 2
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Actor: Diane Venora, Guy Siner, Joseph Makkar, Michael Biehn, Michael YorkBrand: Gaiam
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Good Times Video
Movie Reviews of Megiddo - Omega Code 2
Movie Review: A Christian Dramatic Film With Stunning Visual Effects
Summary: 5 Stars
Megiddo is considered the sequel to "The Omega Code". This film was released to a Christian audience shortly after the September 11th attack in 2001. A striking film, it is full of intense drama and special effects, enhanced by computer graphics. Megiddo follows the tradition of Apocaylptic literature, such as the Christian novels of the "Apocaylpse" series, with prophetic, end of the world themes that resonate in the pages of the symbolic book of Revelation. Although I am not a fundamentalist, and prefer to see the future in brighter and more peaceful prospects, I liked the brilliant direction on this film, the powerful drama and the visual effects. Similar to Stephen King novels in some respects, or at least the "Omen" film series, it is nevertheless an interesting work of fiction, grounded on the fears that we have about the end of the world.Michael York (Basil from the Austin Powers films and a distinguished British stage and film actor) portrays the Anti-Christ. He is Stone Alexander, a handsome, wealthy Italian an heir to his father's massive industry and fortune. When he was a young boy, his mother died giving birth to his brother David Stone. Jealous and possessed by the Devil, he attempts to destroy David. The sibling rivalry theme is not a surprise, for it has appeared in various films and guises ever since the brother-against-brother story of Cain and Abel. Stone is trained in the military but succumbs to the dark powers of the Devil and raises as an Anti-Christ. He is Damian from the Omen with a different, restrained and elegant kind of evil, much like Anthony Hopkins in Silence Of The Lambs. Getting on people's good sides, bringing about world peace and end to various problems as disease and world hunger, he has many nations on his side. But his brother David looks beyond the facade and realizes he is a threat. For some reason, they throw in a love story. David has always loved the Italian beauty, Gabriella, but it is Stone who marries her. The Devil in love ? Very unrealistic. The nations gather to make war in the Middle East and then God triumphantly destroys the dark forces, even in military fashion, and chains the Devil in hell.
Although these fundamentalist images of the end of the world are fantasy, they are very striking as a film. I hope that the real Devil of human intolerance and human's inhumanity to each other is truly destroyed by the actions of noble hearted and compassionate people who serve each other and are not power-corrupted. Perhaps one day, there will be peace and such disastrous imagery as end of the world will never even come about. The film's only significant line is Gabriella saying
"Even God cannot force us to do good.. we must do good".
Summary of Megiddo - Omega Code 2
In this sequel to Omega Code 1 , the battle continues up to the highest governmental offices of the United States, where one man (Michael York) is challenged to reveal the true nature of the beast. Enhanced DVD includes additional features and footage and is captioned in English. 106 minutes.
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