total crap!

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 2008)

All I remember of The Omega Man is that first image of Heston, at least as I remember it, luxuriatingly driving a big convertible in an oddly empty cityscape. I think he's on some curving overpass as we first see him, elbow on the window sill, smiling in the sunshine.
That ironically odd image is iconic and dead-on right. There isn't even that much in this 2007 movie.
This movie is so bad... Who thinks this is a fine performance? Are they talking about the dog? Nothing that this actor did seemed remotely human or true.
It's not all his fault. The script had him saying and doing completely stupid stuff. Maybe a truly great actor could have found something recognizable in this non-human role, but I doubt it.
Why does he need mannikins to meet and talk with, but shows zero interest in real people? I'm not talking about being scared, or shy, or defensively, reflexively hostile... just not interested. The girl was just a nuisance. It made no sense.
Why did he put out a radio message and wait everyday if he were convinced there were no survivors?
How is it a guy this resourceful is such a whiny tantrum-thrower? none of this made any sense, not any of it at all. This movie sucked real hard.
And the acting was just terrible. My character needs to display emotional agony? I'll just screw-up my face and look like I stubbed my toe real bad. Maybe it's the directors fault. I don't know. But this is just... well, you know the word.
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I'd like to assign more than one point, if only for variety- so I'm trying to think of something redeeming or respectable about this.. and.. I can't. Even his choice in pilfered (or inherited) art was unimaginative.
When they went to cgi for the villains, some-one said "physics-schmizix, I want them to move like they weigh two pounds, and collide like they are 500lbs of solid steel!" That's why the zombies weren't scary.. they moved too fast to have substance.