2/10
Thespian restraint thrown to the winds
5 December 2018
Michael York must have laughed all the way to the bank on this one and this presumes his check cleared from Paul Crouch. He gives one of the most outrageous performances ever put on film. Acting classes in overacting can be built around what he does with Stone Alexander the anti-Christ he portrays.

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 gives us a bit of back story of Stone Alexander who as we saw in the first Omega Code was checked in his march to the apocalypse by Casper Van Dien. Van Dien was smart enough to stay clear of the sequel.

We get a bit of back story on Stone. He was the oldest of two sons of media mogul David Hedison, the other Michael Biehn. Biehn gets to be president of the USA and York the head of the world. As we know York is also the devil's spawn.

This film is bad, really bad. It's a compilation of all the nostrums of the end timers, the xenophobic nationalists, and general all around religious kooks. And believe me York knows this, but this is an opportunity to throw thespian restraint thrown to the winds.

Michael York is having a ball with this part. As Charles Laughton said 'they can't censor the gleam in my eye' and no one would try with York.

One of the worst of the end time films. But a chance to see this kind of overacting doesn't come that often.
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