terrible... so disappointed.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This is clearly a dreadful movie, but it's still difficult for me to rate, since I think it's a contender for So-Bad-It's-Good status. It's a last-judgment-end-of-days-prophecies supernatural horror thriller, and it had a pretty decent budget, enough to hire a few name actors and to film on location in Italy and Israel (as well as the U.S.) Even so, the special effects are amusingly crude for 1999; there's no suspense, since the ultimate battle between Evil and Good comes off a bit like "Bambi meets Godzilla"; and it suffers from the prophecy movie problem that none of main characters' actions seem to have any effect whatsoever on the outcome. But what's wonderfully awful about this film is the way the non-supernatural events are vastly more implausible than the supernatural ones: that is, it's possible to suspend one's disbelief when viewing the supernatural plot elements, but you can't watch the supposedly human action without thinking "no effing way would that ever happen." A good one to laugh at with bad-movie-loving (and at least somewhat irreverent) friends.

This movie starts off with a Jewish scholar by the name of "Rabbi Rostenberg" (Yehuda Efroni) completing research on a Biblical code which can unlock secret messages of prophetic importance from within the Bible. Because of the significant advantages to be gained from its possession, evil forces want his work and send a hit man named "Dominic" (Michael Ironside) to kill him and acquire it. They succeed in killing him and they get most of the code. But not all. When the news of Rabbi Rostenberg's murder leaks out a popular motivational speaker named "Gillen Lane" (Casper Van Dien) is called upon by television reporter "Cassandra Barashe" (Catherine Oxenberg) to explain to her audience the importance of this Bible code. Not long afterward the man recently appointed as the Chairman of the European Union, "Stone Alexander" (Michael York) calls upon Gillen Lane to be his public relations spokesman as he launches an effort to consolidate the world under his leadership. Anyway, rather than disclose the entire plot and ruin the mystery for those who haven't seen this movie I will just say that while this film is entertaining the story itself is mishandled a bit. The main cause of this is the fact that it spends a great deal of time on setting up the story but condenses way too much material at the end. As a result the ending leaves much to be desired. Still, both Michael Ironside and Michael York, along with Catherine Oxenberg to a lesser degree, performed in a reasonably good manner and their performances make the film watchable. However, I cannot say the same for Casper Van Dien as he just didn't have the presence required to be a lead actor. In any case, this isn't a bad Christian film and I think it deserves an average rating.

My husband and I saw a portion this film because it was playing at the right time and the title sounded cool. This is the first and only movie we have walked out of. The reason, five minutes into the film there was a blond girl with a golden retriever smack dab in the middle east just waiting to be snatched by a baddie. To clue in the clueless audience bad guy themed music boomed through out the theater. After this cliché to the hilt opening my husband and I walked out and took a cigarette lighter to our tickets.Years later friends were discussing awful films, I told her that I had seen 5 minutes of a truly awful movie. Interested she asked me the title when I told her it was the Omega Code she became upset. Being a born again Christian she told me that this was a really good film and that she had it on VHS and that I could borrow it. I told her no thanks and she said she would pray for me.

I was not only disappointed; I was embarrassed. As a TBN viewer and supporter, I had heard all the buzz and thought that maybe, at long last, we Christians had finally produced a quality movie on a par with secular productions. Dutifully, I invited and bought tickets for several unbelievers to attend with me. The movie was so amateurish, so fraught with plot holes and so poorly edited both pre- and post-production that I was mortified. Since I work in this industry, it was readily apparent to me how easy it would have been to maintain plot integrity and thereby give the production the quality it was lacking. I was astonished that no effort was made to do so. I can, however, give this movie credit for teaching me never to listen to hype and always preview any Christian movie before inviting unbelievers.