I Am Omega

I Am Omega

ВOnce I noticed that the last man on Earth managed to get into a ridiculous situation where he tried to fight an entire horde of the undead in a parking lot using only a pair of nunchucks, I began to ponder just how brain-dead the rest of the characters who met their end must have been. Also, when the last man on Earth noticed a rabbit and enthusiastically decided to run after it, I could not help but think that maybe this was some sort of a post apocalyptic fantasy where practically everyone above an I.Q. of 50 was turned to ashes thanks to a mutant virus.

Still, I found great satisfaction when the last man on earth, in the company of his friends and a six-pack, took a dump on the ground and punched the air while bellowing ‘I’m pissing on you world!” As he certainly did not leave any stones unturned while looking for a place to urinate, even I am looking forward to the day when the last petal of this earth shall fall and there shall be no one to tell me where to pee deep within the valley of plains.

However, for a moment let’s be worried – we are in good hands since the last man Earth in this movie is Mark Dacascos, who played the leading role in Kicking Boxer 5 and a couple of other flicks, namely Only The Strong and American Samurai. He does all right, running here and there, having a faraway look in his eyes seemingly every time he thinks he hears something, then shooting, stabbing and kicking some more zombies in the face. In addition, he blows the entire city of Los Angeles up. It’s pretty hard not to like a guy like that.

The Asylum highly determines the release of this film since it comes after Will Smith’s version of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. This is the same company that previously produced Snakes On A Train and The Da Vinci Treasure. The I Am Omega title works well in merging I Am Legend with The Omega Man which was the earlier version done by Charleton Heston however, it sounds more like an inside joke.

Did the people dumber than watching this movie even know that The Omega Man ever existed because of some outside stimulus? Heck, the first thing that came to my mind upon hearing the title was that this was indeed another of those Jesus freak movies with Kirk Cameron starring in it. He was in Growing Pains, but that’s hardly Kickboxer 5, is it?

Dacascos, in this movie, plays Renchard who remains the last human being in the entire world. I remember him having a flashback at the beginning of the film involving some static radio transmission how the world turned into obnoxious, viscous, blood-crazy bastards, but I’m not really into the radio, so it gets no much insight.

Moreover, how did it come to be that there had been a disaster of that scale? All that really matters is that whatever disaster it was, it left Renchard a little unhinged and grieving over his family’s death because he is also a trained martial artist and has some demolitions’ skills, I think it would be inappropriate to ask for much in the way of detail.

In the opening stages of the film, Renchard is depicted as a rather busy man, moving around in his rural fortress like home, reading some material, examining maps, getting a shave, practicing shooting, working out his kick fighting routine, and wallowing in self pity for all of his family members that have died in the prologue.

A more harmless solution for his troubles, however, is found in the deep underground where he specializes in beer runs, setting up zip bombs, massacring zombies, and relieving himself in the most convenient of places. This is how one of the other overly verbose characters describes it “perfect utopia.”

However, even in this context of a perfect life, Renchard does not hesitate for too long, receiving a video tee message in the midst of stuffing his face with American grease on his Apple laptop (all socialists will die in the apocalypse draught, sharpen your spear!). The woman on the video is Brianna who was trying to reach Antioch but ended up being on her own in LA! And she is able to speak directly to Renchard, telling him to press the button to save her.

Never in a million years worth of Christianity! No way to stage a rescue when you are always looking into the abyss fueled by rage and revenge. Or leaning against the fridge lazily. Sorry lady but Renchard’s priorities are quite clear. Avoid saying that even if somebody runs into him while he is going to buy beer, it won’t be any good.

What is funny, and by funny, I mean dumb, in this movie is that once Brianna’s character enters the picture and the film transitions into actual plot-based mode, the film goes on an exponential decline quicker than the last man on earth with bombs strapped to his body.

Two men who apparently are from Antioch show up at Renchard’s home and demand to be taken to Brianna as her blood could help with whatever is wrong and is threatening mankind. However, they seem to be a couple of filthy, deceitful people who desire the exact opposite and don’t want the old world back because only the strongest survive!

From this moment on nothing makes sense at all. First of all, where and why people are talking about broadcasting and receiving video messages over the Internet when the entire civilization has been turned into ruins and people barely manage with their lives? And the so called bad guys were somehow able to hear what Brianna and Renchard spoke about over the computer and pinpointed the location so they could go and confront him?

But apart from the technical and logical issues, the very plot has in fact become such that the characters are made to forget what they already know only for the sake of making the chase around the city and conflicts between Renchard and the two goons.

The two thugs are aware that Renchard wants to explode the entire city. She is trapped in the city and has no way out. They are cognizant that Roger isn’t coming to her aid. So when the city bursts, she too will perish. Which is pretty much what both these thugs want. So then why the hell do they intend to go into the city to capture this girl when it is apparent that Renchard’s purpose is to stop her from being useful to anyone, when she is all but dead anyway?

This is simply because, it’s entertaining to watch one of the guys wrestle Renchard and get hit by a thrown tire, doesn’t absolve the film from its egregious plot holes.

Still, the monsters are disgusting enough, Renchard gets shot a few times, assualted with a chain, and suffers a car accident before he also sets a pile of cadavers ablaze. It is plenty of madness to ensure that the viewer can get through the inane plot without too great an effort. And L.A. gets shellacked, too. It is difficult to fault any movie that does that!

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