Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Albert Pyun has long been a purveyor of cheap science fiction/action films (the Van Damme starrer CYBORG is one of his best known) and this film comes as no exception. You can almost imagine them thinking of the concept here; "Oh yeah, let's remake YOJIMBO again but this time with an all-robot cast! That'll be cool!". While OMEGA DOOM does have some redeeming factors, in the end these are spoiled by poor editing which totally ruins any excitement the action scenes may have had, and the simplistic script. In the end it's just like any other mid '90s low-budget sci-fi caper, it looks impressive from the outside but invariably disappoints.This film has one small, cheap set. It looks like it's been filmed in an eastern European war-torn town, and that's because it was. As there is little budget for impressive visual effects (a few colourful flashes, and a moving severed head are about it), the guys on the sound effects track go berserk with all manner of weird and wonderful sounds. Each robot movement makes a whirr or a clank, each time a weapon is powered up there's a cool noise. In fact 90% of this movie has some kind of sound effect going on in it. Sadly these become tiring after a while.Pyun has always been a journeyman director, and here he does a pretty bad job again. As I mentioned earlier, a right hash is made of the action scenes in which it's impossible to figure out what's happening. Much of this film consists of talk though, and its quite watchable and never becomes boring. Most fun is Rutger Hauer, whose poetry-spouting peaceful robot is the film's most interesting character, and he dominates much of the screen time. Hauer is fine in the role, although it isn't exactly stretching.The supporting cast has some mildly familiar faces, but most of the actors and actresses are just minor players - although, somewhat scarily, a whole load of them seem to have been either in Pyun's HEATSEEKER or BLAST, a DIE HARD rip-off also from '96. Shannon Whirry appears in a minor role as an evil female robot who plans to double-cross Hauer and gets shot in the stomach before s-l-o-w-l-y dying; Whirry's best known for her role in late night adult films so her acting is, as to be expected, pretty atrocious. However, good value comes from Norbert Weisser as 'the Head', an amusing foil for Hauer who spends most of the screen time either doing pratfalls or having his head knocked off and smashed against walls. Some of the robots, as played by Tina Cote and Jahi Zuri, are also sufficiently imposing, especially the latter with his piercing blue contact lenses.OMEGA DOOM has a few tricks and surprises up its sleeve which keeps it mildly watchable in a good-natured way, but it's not a film you would want to pay to see. Instead, it's a derivative quickie, in which there isn't much originality and which offers up nothing new or of interest to the genre. Basically, you can live your life quite happily without seeing this film, trust me.

After ten minutes of watching the movie I wanted to turn off the TV - too simple story and bored minimum of special effects, but something made me watch the movie to end. In this film there is a purely philosophical zest. Protagonists (robots) too similar to humans, and if you swap the humans and robots, the story will not change. And it a hint to understanding the idea of the film. "Will people destroy all robots? " - This question is asked in the film more than once. Robots have become too similar to humans. Killing machine destroyed each other. Remained the protagonists, not similar to each other, and the ability to change personality. And if people will kill the remaining robots, then, I believe, do deserve such a fate . This movie made me think about humanity of people.

Another remake of Kurosawa's landmark film "Yojimbo" (itself suggested by Dashiell Hammet's "Red Harvest"), set in a distant, post-Apocalyptic future. A stranger comes to town and plays one group of badguys against another, kills everybody, walks off into the sunrise. can't go too wrong with a story that simple! The acting is strong, especially that of Hauer, who never realized the promise of his earely career. When action happens, it's neatly handled.But the pacing just drags. There's not half the action this film needs, and the dialog is way over-wrought.I did like the use of a quote from Dylan Thomas, and a couple other moments stand out, as when one robot envisions Hauer's character on horseback leading the human race back to triumphal dominance. And this is one of Pyun's better efforts as a director; he just doesn't seem to know how to move a film along - which has always been his main weakness.Good for a viewing, but unmemorable, and certainly not in a class with Yojimbo.

I've always tried to watch all the films Albert Pyun has done, ever since I watched "Mean Guns". His way of directing is weird, his usage of special effects generally is bad, but I can't say I do not enjoy his films. Unfortunately, American straight-to-video releases of this kind seldom make it to my country, and cable TV every once in a while blesses me with them.Like "Adrenalin", "Omega Doom" is another of his apocalyptical future films, and like "Cyborg", there are cyborgs involved (redundant I've been called). The title character is a human-robot hybrid who arrives at a place where he finds two different kinds of robots who would normally be "killing" each other. Apparently, they are looking for guns for when "the humans come to destroy them", so they are in a sort of truce. Of course, and because otherwise it would not be interesting, OD (a.k.a. Guardian Angel) soon makes the two groups (which are composed of 3 members each) angry with him.The main problem with this film is that, albeit similar to "Cyborg", it lacks action. While Jean Claude Van Damme surely provides that, Rutger Hauer gives more acting, and keeps you all the film waiting for him to use a sword he carries. THere are a couple of badly-made short-lived western-like fights, yet I confess the final fight was better than expected.As for the performances, Rutger is Rutger. One will always like him. The bar woman is fairly decently played. As for the cyborgs, they were somewhat, if a bit exaggerated, believable. Tina Cotè playing BlackHeart looks so sensual, and her look will remind you of "The Matrix"'s Trinity, but not only this movie is older, Tina looks better!Concluding, this is a futuristic film. It lacks the depth of "Nirvana", the effects of "The Matrix", or the action of "Equilibrium". But if you were looking for any of these, you would not rent an Albert Pyun's film, would you?