Surprisingly incoherent and boring

I'll tell you why so serious

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Somewhat Disturbing and an Ominous Tone make the Third Movie in the Omen Trilogy a Must Watch for Fans of the Series. It was Followed by a TV Movie, Omen IV: The Awakening (1991) that most "The Omen" Completest Disregard Completely.Sam Neill, in a difficult Breakout Role delivers a Creepy, Intense Performance that Carries the Film with the Help of some Lurid Plotting and Exposition. The Seeking out and Killing of the Christ Child, the Numerous and Well Done Assassination Monk Eliminations, Damien's Talk to His Disciples, His Ranting to Christ, and other things make this a Solid Horror and Supernatural Entry that is Neither Embarrassing or Disappointing as Sequels go.It's got a Good Cast and a Fine Jerry Goldsmith Score, a Sharp looking Production Template, and it all Contributes to the Success of the "Final Conflict". There are some truly Creepy Scenes and this Dark Tale of the Battle between Christ and the Anti-Christ is Not as Anticlimactic as some may Claim. In Fact, it Comes Off as more Believable than an Over Produced, SFX Saturated, Grand, Extravagant Ending Ever Could.

Carrying out a dangerous plan, Damien's attempts to father an Antichrist is continually interrupted by a group of priests determined to end his reign and prevent his plans from coming to fruition.Overall this turned out to be quite an exciting and enjoyable effort that does have a few problems. One of the small problems is the fact that this one doesn't seem to go anywhere while he just spends the entire time pontificating on his mission and journey without actually doing much of any interest. These scenes of him going around his office attempting to explain his plans using his connections with the Biblical passages back to his overall plans which aren't in the slightest bit interesting in the long run of simply being too overlong in the first half. The later parts here are almost as bad with the completely overblown love story and the concurrent plot to deal with the children that just tends to drag on for a while as the discussion of the events plods along with barely anything happening during these scenes. As this is understandable considering the particular storyline portrayed in here, this really tends to undermine the whole second half hat really just limps along lifelessly during this half while trying to make the valiant attempts of suspense and mortal terror but never doing anything to do that. That also leads into the last problem here in the film as it really does a pretty lousy job at really delving into his evil business as very little of what he does throughout the film actually manages to make the main characters who is supposedly the Devil incarnate come off like an ordinary psychopath with a devious plan. There's a few areas here that does come off rather nicely which mostly centers on the activities of the priests to stop his plans from coming to fruition which allows this one some rather creepy supernaturally-charged action scenes. The early thwarted ambush at the TV station is rather fun with the actual kill being the highlight, the assassination at the office works nicely with the surprise shock of it and the attempt on the hunting grounds is mostly memorable for turning one of the most beloved dog-breeds into vicious killers in a supposedly chilling scene only for the breed itself to make it amusingly cheesy. About the only other positive beyond these fun scenes is the rather nice way it goes about ensuring the Devilish identity of the main protagonist, holding over the events of the previous film playing off the more charming and level- headed characteristics that would be expected of someone like him which helps keep his identity a secret. Otherwise it's all that works here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, intense themes of child death and a shadowy sex scene.

The first Omen film, starring Gregory Peck, was a masterpiece. Great story, fine acting, handsome production.The second Omen film, starring William Holden, was an unmitigated disaster.This third film is somewhere in between. Not as good as Omen I, but a heckuva lot better than Omen 2. There's some emotion here; there was none in Omen 2. Omen 2 was simply a "let's keep killing people off while we search for an actual plot" film. This production is a bit more elaborate. We see some emotion on the part of actor's portrayals. There's a definite plot.Now that's not to say that this is a top notch film. It seems as if in some scenes the director wanted to go further, but was hampered by the ratings system...probably for the good.Sam Neill has never been one of my favorites, but I always found him acceptable in various films. He was good here in his first big international role. At the time the film was released I remember thinking that he would go far...and he has done rather well.I found Lisa Harrow very good as the female lead. Apparently she and Neill were married (?).It was good seeing Rossano Brazzi, here as a priest, in one of his final films. He did well; seemed believable.If we could just leave out Omen 2 from the trilogy it would be much better, but then again it would be like leaving out a third of novel. Ah well, it is what it is. Don Gordon as Harvey Pleydell Dean

I'm not really what you'd consider a fan of these movies. The first one is a very atmospheric and suspenseful horror movie, 7/10. The second one was a decent sequel, nothing special - 6/10. Then there's this. I found it to be the weakest of the Damien trilogy I managed to find myself finding it decent.First of all Sam Neill has great screen presence as Damien. For a fact I'm still in the middle of deciding who's better - Sam Neill or Harvey Stephens. The other actors, I have mixed feelings on.The basic plot is that Damien has risen though the world of politics and gained a lot of followers. The Second Coming has happened and Damien uses his followers to kill every child born on the day that three stars collided. While all this is going on there are seven priests armed with the seven daggers to kill Damien.Now I did sort of like this one. I just thought that things could have been handled better. For example, Damien has this big room that he uses only to yell at Jesus. On the big screen and on paper this comes across as ridiculous to some viewers. For a fact when I was told about it I was laughing.So this is worth a watch at least in my opinion. It's at least better than The Omen 4, of which I hated.