Another Omega Man

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2008)

For fans of Richard Matheson's wonderfully claustrophobic tale, this is a disappointment. Plus, the dog dies.
Based more upon the 1970s film with the recently deceased Charleton Heston than the book, this film is definitely post-apocalyptic in a general way with a virally frightening way of getting there.
Why can't Hollywood just make Matheson's terrifying original without messing with it? This round two is based so much on round one of the film version that I begin to wonder if anyone making films today is actually literate or can bear to hold paper. This movie is inspired purely by the Omega Man, which is a great film but NOT THE ORIGINAL TALE. Poor Matheson. Why when Hollywood knows that vampire tales pull in viewers are they not making an adaptation of THE BOOK? If you want to see something close to Matheson's original, check out Midnight Mass, based on a Paul F. Wilson novella. And be very afraid without the foolish overtones of government interference and someone's overwrought interpretation of the original tale of one man's battle against an incomprehensible evil that has overtaken his world.