Memorable, crazy movie

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Thought that it was pretty goodfor this kind of show

The original Omen series was not greatly loved by critics, nor do horror movies generally -- unless they happen to be Ridley Scott's _Alien_, among others -- ever fare too well with mainstream critical voices. As genres go, film horror has a long history of not taking itself too seriously. For one it's hard to take blood and guts too seriously when their are in superabundance. The exploding head, now a standard trope of the literary horror palette, was kind of funny from the beginning. And horror IS about horrible things. Taking them too seriously would be, well, just horrible. So the horror genre tends toward cheekiness. Horror film freaks are not all doom and gloom. I suppose most of us like to hold babies, tell silly jokes to our parents and do other sentimental humanish things. Religious fundamentalists, on the other hand, have a more severe view of the world, and do not ma6ke the best stand-up comics. They might well love the Damien series, which has no sense of humor at all, which is one reason, I believe, that critics will tend to dislike (or even ignore) the series altogether. Metacritic scores this one 56, based on one review. So critics are not exactly lining up to pan this one. The truth is, few viewers of a drama series really want to entertain a serious question about their own lives: is their evil in the world? For those of us who must answer with a resounding "Yes", this series provides, in a perverse way perhaps, a kind of comfort. Yes there is evil in the world, and even the ostensibly "evil" one is upset about it. I think evil exists and it upsets me off, too. So I cannot help but like the protagonist here. On the other hand, that I do like him is scary because he might become the person he least wishes to be. The potential is there in him, as it is in all of us. Each of us could, if we're not careful, become the person we least wish to be. There's a universal truth if there ever was one. Who wants to be reminded of that? Probably not people with their heads in the sand. That's why they put them there in the first place.Knowing one's own potential, for good or ill, is a serious way to be, to think and to act. Self-knowledge is a universal concern, and to that extent, it is a distinctly un-humorous proposition. Humor is, to the extent that it's funny, provincial in character. THat is why we are able to laugh at stereotypes, in certain contexts, even though they offend us in other contexts. Self-knowledge is a universal concern. In and of itself, it does not make us laugh, in part, because there is self-deception (=evil) involved. That is, knowledge exists within, and might emerge victorious over, deception and confusion. This is war, metaphorically speaking. Of course.Humor makes us laugh by showing that self-deception is provincial and small-minded. But the fact of self-deception is not, in itself, funny.So as campy and over-the-top as this (or any other, thematically similar) production tends to be, there is comfort in the fact that art, symbolically, addresses the truth of our subjective experiences around touchy, unfunny, but nonetheless real elements. Aside from a fine cast overall, that Barbara Hershey's character returns, full of chillingly evil characterization, is a MAJOR score for the series.

What does this show want to deliver? A story of the Antichrist in human form coming to terms with who he is at the age of 30.From what I know of The Omen, it wants to deliver shock and horror with jump scares. Something that just doesn't really attach itself well to the story of how the world ends. The way the show is made does nothing to offer repair to such an unhappy marriage of themes.It could have been an eerie telling of a man coping with a destiny he does not want, but it gets completely overshadowed by all the different factions and alliances that attempt to push him in different directions. There are simply too many characters pushed down the rabbit hole for any of their experiences and reflections to feel distinguishable and interesting.There's little to no real symbolism and the relationship between the characters introduced seem like that of any modern day television show. The witty down-to-earth co-worker, the random girl the protagonist gets to protect, the shady family friend in politics, etc. What is worse is that they all fade in and out of the story when they are needed for plot development. There's little nuance to any of the characters. Even Damien starts out as just a regular guy wanting nothing to do with it, and at some point he starts randomly switching between being psychotic and being his normal self. Towards the end of the season the screen writer seems to think the viewer will fall for it, if he keeps showing Damien in a position where he's just about to tip and "join the dark side" as it were, but it doesn't ever truly feel like an option, because of the way the character is built.This show should have doubled down on what it feels like to be Damien. Instead it lumps together almost all clichés in the horror genre and hopes for the best. The pacing should have been slower, the character development more important, and the politics at play could have been portrayed in a better way. Less oddly inconsistent assassins from the Vatican and more random encounters between Damien and regular people. Show me a rising distortion that edges towards the realization that this is not just a man we're dealing with.The 5 stars I gave because it isn't an all together bad show. But it makes sense to cancel it. It wasn't a story of the beginning of the end, and it wasn't a personal story of how it feels to be the sad devil. And it had to be either of those, rather than a poor attempt at a mix.

I will give 3 only for amazing actors that I saw in other projects. Every time I see new episode it feels like script-team didn't see the Trilogy but also they read only short version of it in Wikipedia. They try to stick to it some details that were in movies and they fail completely by making many mistakes. The story here doesn't make any sense, people just die helping him or being against him. And the most dangerous people for him just stay alive. What he does makes sense, but then people who help him (demons right?) have no idea what is happening and behave in absolutely strange way, not suitable for the character. Worst execution of the script for TV-show based on movie I've ever seen. P.S. But very good idea to pick up this movie for the series because 3rd movie finishes with open door, like asking for it.