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Rachael-Siobhan
Reviews
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
Terrible, not terrifying
So tonight I watched this movie for a lack of alternative evening endeavours or bearable programmes; more out of sheer boredom, to be honest. Wile my boredom wouldn't fade away - and I was waiting for that to happen, as I expected this to be an action inspired movie about the end of times, particularly given the cast -, this most terrible movie gradually turned most hilarious.
The acting is over the top as if even the actors couldn't take this effort seriously, the special effects remind me of late 90s CGI as one would find it in the animated sequences of role-playing adventure games, and the director obviously has never heard about dramatisation or narration. Suspending disbelief won't help you with this movie; the great arc of the Book of Revelations has been rendered a mess; and the Antichrist is about as terrifying as Tinky-Winky, the teletubby. That means you won't find anything frightening about him at all, and moreover he is neither a deceitful nor evil nor smart, just a hoax of devil.
The love story is soddingly dry, and while there is emphasis, there is little empathy. I was hoping that somewhere, somehow, by God's intervention perhaps, suspense would emerge in this movie; but the final scenes just stayed as uninspired as the rest of the film. The end felt particularly like a cop-out - a sudden intervention by God, that and who never was indicated before, a classic deus ex machina, that was no salvation, just dodgy mechanics - and BOOM! the movie's over.
There is no doubt that this film had an enormous budget; it's sad to see that this was used to no avail. Well, that's not true: It shows a hideous mixture of hooray patriotism (US), xenophobia and prejudice (towards UN and EU) and a caricature of Christianity, i.e. an appalling lack of understanding about anything as regards the nature of politics, religion or faith.
In the end this movie was just so bad, that it was most hilarious to watch the actors (and CGI characters) stumble from one mess into another. I asked myself for whom but fundamentalist Christians such pretense of film had been produced - I did so jokingly, and it amazes me, shocks me, that this audience really accepts such sorry waste of time. This film is not worth your time, rather read in the Revelations.