I Am Omega
I Am Omega (2007) is an action / drama movie focusing on the zombie apocalypse genre produced by The Asylum and released directly to DVD. This can also be seen as an unoffical retelling of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend (1954).
Griff Furst, director of Lake Placid 3 (2010) and Wolvesbayne (2009), also the director of the previous film reviewed (100 Million BC (2008)).
And you’re probably thinking about the title, it’s really simply the title that perfectly describes the story. It’s nothing three film versions of the same book couldn’t tell you. One is The Omega Man (1971) and the other is I Am Legend (2007); clearly, this movie tries to ride their coattails, but I wouldn’t say it’s a complete knockoff. It even came out a month before the Will Smith version.
The script happens to be the worst part of the movie in that it is radically thin on plot. The zombie plague has no origins explanation, it spends a fair amount of time on the night for the main character has an alone and does actions without explaining them. That part actually sorts of reach back to the novel.
And the ability involved is certainly that of hallucinating to period to time. Then it carries on the next the principal tale which actually doesn’t have much sense when reason is put to it. That, for example, is where the central character using an unpersuasive amount of explosives attempts to blow entire cities though there is no sound reason to go that length.
The acting is passable, pin Mark Dacascos is not the most emotional out there but definitely is a martial artist out there and quite a reasonable action hero Australian performing well while bashing zombies with a nunchaku head and poorly while delivering clichés lines or the borderline best performance in the movie Geoff Meed. Meed is a typical next door boyfriend of Ron Perlman type army tow ghost movie type of buff muscle head with pretty strange motivation on how to do the mission which looks like something that Perlman would do if he and the movie were bigger budgets. Wiggins and Lloyd are acceptable.
As it is a The Asylum production I had very low expectations but it actually turned out to be not anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be, though it is a low budget film, so I can give leniency to the not so good zombie make-up or the horrible CG explosions, but there are also good things. The cinematography is quite nice, sometimes it even being in HD video looks quite good and it has some of these features that belong more to B-movies, such as punching or nunchaku fights with zombies, it also does enough practical effects and the CG backgrounds aren’t too horrible either.
Not a very good movie, but for some reason I managed to enjoy it. With The Asylum you would expect these entertaining, so bad it is good kind of films, but in this one it’s about almost halfway through before there is much action. It seems to be focusing on the feeling of claustrophobia and near madness that the main character possesses, and trying to go as far as to create depth to a B-movie plot.
Laось In case I Am Legend’s mockbuster is appealing to you, then I do recommend this. It is an extremely average movie, so watch at your own risk. And the more correct and the more desirable variant the Last Man On Earth 1964.
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