Did you people see the same film I saw?

A Masterpiece!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Somehow, 11 years later, I remember this movie opening on a Tuesday. They had to, if they wanted to capitalize on the 6-6-06 date. And I guess that paid off for the fans and scaredy-cats of the legend.If 1998's Psycho didn't teach us anything, and apparently it didn't, remaking a movie almost 99% shot-by-shot DOES NOT WORK. I get they wanted to use the 6-6-06 date as mentioned, but they did NOTHING to improve on the original. In fact, they made me appreciate it all the more.I did like the 1976 film about the birth and realization of the Antichrist, but was never the biggest fan. Now I am. Thanks, 2006's The Omen.Probably 3% of the original was updated here, but with far less talent in the acting department and a rush job to speed up the timeframe from the first one. So, literally, I could stop here and say, SKIP THIS. THERE IS NO REASON TO WATCH THIS FILM. Everything failed here. Not a single shot or actor could've saved this project. The original worked fine and still holds up today having just watched it myself yesterday, 7/29/17.Please disperse; nothing to see here. I literally did chores around my room as this played since I had just seen the 1976 film within hours of this one and barely a second was altered. ***Final thoughts: On a personal note, I cannot stand Liev Schreiber. There's just something that irks me about him. That said, I didn't hate him in this, but please. He was NOOOO Gregory Peck. How they landed on Schreiber to fill Peck's shoes is beyond me.Also, Julia Stiles? Awful. Loved her in the Bourne movies, but here, horribly miscast as well.And who played Damien? Not sure. Don't remember moments after seeing this. He was THAT unmemorable.

This an awful movie. The this one of the worst horror movies ever made. The original The Omen from 1976 is good movie. See that movie. Damien Omen II is a lot better movie. That is a good movie. Omen III final conflict is a lot better that is a great movie. Omen IV the awakening is a better movie and that was awful. This movie is so similar to the original that there is no point to this movie at all. It is not scary at all. It is one of the most unnecessary movie of all time. I do not know why it got a 5.5. That is just overrating it. I give it 1 out 10. Because it is just a pile of steaming pooh pooh. This is just awful. This is not a good movie at all. It is one of the worst horror movies of all time. Do not see it.

After several years of raising his son, a US diplomat comes to believe that he's adopted the son of the Antichrist and must try to stop those who are intent on letting his demonic legacy come to fruition.Overall this may be a pointless but surprisingly watchable effort. The fact that this is a remake of the original and doesn't do anything drastically new to the proceedings is definitely the biggest flaw, since this one practically copies the original's plot as well as whole scenes straight from there. This gives the film the feeling of redundancy as it once again shows the couple's son dying in birth, the secretive adoption and the ensuring career change all coming from the original's plot verbatim. As well, the fact that this one features scenes like the arrival at the church, the disastrous birthday party, the tricycle attack and even the scenes of the two retracing the clues of the apocalypse get carried over from the original and manages to feature them shot-for-shot in the new version without deviation, furthering the ties of familiarity here between the two versions. More to the point, both of these issues combine together against this one being so predicable and unnecessary that really hold this one down and make it quite a troublesome effort here when on a fundamental level the effort is challenging to get through. That does make for enough here to hold off the few positives on display which are quite surprising throughout here. The one thing this one gets right is the build-up between the religious prophecies and the actual evil within here, as the opening montage of real-world tragedies leads nicely into the sequences in the first half which signify something is happening. As the coincidences begin piling up and painting a darker picture it becomes all the more obvious and that's quite an enjoyable feat. Likewise, the frantic finale packs a lot of action into this one by really amping up the pacing of events which is much higher at this point despite showcasing the film's fast-paced action at its best, much like it accomplished throughout the rest of this in order to really make for a watchable effort with the pacing in here. Otherwise, it's not all that bad of an effort.Rated R: Graphic Violence, some Language and intense demonic themes.

Virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1976 Omen film with the 21st century music video gloss that passes for cinematography now. That this was made by the same director who would later do the awful Max Payne and A Good Day to Die Hard should come as no surprise. John Moore is a director more focused on making a film look good than actually be good.Did The Omen need to be remade? Of course not but such is the nature of the business. Before I start going on a diatribe about that, I'd better get back to this film and what's good or bad about it. What's good: some nicely staged scenes, but nothing particularly creative or original. For a director so obsessed with visuals, Moore offers little to improve upon the original's film's creative death set pieces. He just copies them. How creatively bankrupt is this man? As for the bad: the movie is plodding, unoriginal, often boring with no suspense or scares worth mentioning. Will viewers unfamiliar with the original film feel the same way? I think so unless these viewers are just generally unfamiliar with movies altogether. The cast is nothing to write home about. Julia Stiles tries and Liev Schrieber is dull as mud. Mia Farrow does fine with a performance that, judging by some of the praise I've seen, is a tad overrated.Overall, it's yet another misfire remake of a superior film. Do yourself a favor and see the original instead. If you already have seen the original, watch something else. Something new or something old you haven't seen before. Just not another crappy horror remake.