CodyZamboni Z
Solid, exciting, action sci fi set in the year 1977, Movie's first half hour is the best, As jaded lonely Charlton Heston drives around empty downtown LA streets, clearing out hordes of plague ghouls, watching the movie Woodstock, decorating his fortress with priceless art, Movie goes downhill with campy ghoul villians, sporting laughable robes and shoddy makeup fx, Heston should wipe the floor with these losers, But Heston makes dumb mistakes, and we have to endure Anthony Zerbe spout annoying pretentious blather, Movie does right the ship towards the end, as Heston finds something worth fighting for.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/25
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Blu B
So it's basically I Am Legend 60's/70's style. This BLEEDS late 60's/early 70's for better or for worse. From the blaxploitation vibes, campy makeup, and the setting. The music is ok but it's the biggest problem. It's never really moody or tense but rather very 60's and it doesn't really fit the tone, is out of place, but it's kind of catchy and upbeat which clashes. It defintely needed like a John Carpenter style or Apocalypse Now style tracks which would help huge. Everything else is half decent though. Charlton Heston does a fairly good job carrying the first half by himself but it does start to run out of momenum fairly quickly. He never comes across as dry or boring though. It feels like he's just wandering aimlessly doing random stuff that doesn't really add up. It should've opened with him being pursued rather than cruising. The camerawork is kind fo basic and the action scenes which this has quite a bit of suprisingly, could have been shot better. This has a low budget feel to it but it is cool seeing the city empty. The zombies are...very unique also, or rather Cult Zombies which I can't say I've ever seen before. The makeup, sunglasses, and mannerisms are very odd and campy. It's unique I'll give it that, but they definetly could be more intimdiating. I do kind of prefer them to the I Am Legend ones though just because there not generic looking and real. Once Robert finds survivors this gets a lot more interesting and it explores a lot of cool ideas. The blood serum, morality of the zombies, the love interest isn't bad, and the one guy is pretty good actually. It does get a little muddy with how Lisa becomes a zombie or if she was one but it's still interesting ideas. This needed better music, a darker tone, more menacing zombies, and a sharper first half. Anyone who is a big fan of Charlton Heston should check this out. This comes significantly closer to being good than I am Legend, but the odd tone really weighs here.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
06/06/24
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kevin o
...Heston is perfect for this kind of role, and the film not perfect is very good start to finish. Corny sure, so what, if you like the description you ll love it.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/05/24
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Steve D
It has lost most of its effectiveness and is now cheesy.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
08/01/23
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Anthony J
A barely B-level picture with a major star trying not to look embarrassed. Truly awful, post-apocalyptic pic with terrible script, plot and special effects.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
07/30/23
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Taylor L
The Omega Man is one of three film adaptations of the classic Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend, and somehow none of them have really delivered on the source material's cutting premise - an apocalyptic survivor with a final revelation that in trying to save the world, he's essentially become a reverse Dracula. Granted, The Omega Man is the only version that gives the changed survivors some actual intelligence (the others are basically just zombies), but they're treated more as goofy cultists than as a living reminder of humanity's mistakes; they're not much more tan nocturnal psychos that look like albino Jawas, and they don't have enough empathy to make them much more than scrapped antagonists for a Mad Max ripoff.
It's a shame, because the early scenes of Charlton Heston stumbling his way through an abandoned LA, struggling to find some sort of normalcy in his routine, is pretty great and a lot of it was done practically with several city blocks shut done and scattered with debris. There's some solid production value in the smaller sets (Heston's reinforced townhome in particular) and the action late in the game, but once the other characters roll in there's just a generic romance (with the '70s standard weird age gap) and unfocused action, plus Lisa's heel turn is just silly. Someday we'll get a really compelling iteration of this story that involves all the self-reflection and unusual perspectives of the novel, but until then decent production value is probably the best we can hope for. (2/5)
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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