Reviews

"Set in post-apocalyptic 1977 America, disillusioned hero-M.D. Neville (C. Heston) struggles against a band of religious brainwashed fanatics." Blah, blah. This is a kick-**s 70's true sci-fi movie. Admittedly, the albino zombie-like freaks are not really scary enough but to see Neville go 'slightly mad' is really worth it. Since Neville is the last man on Earth he is constantly talking to himself, playing chess against himself, and dressing up for his sausage-Sunday dinner. He goes to the movies to see a woodstock drugumentary for the third year in a row -- and he knows the all the lines. Then he fights off a few albino religious freaks with his machine gun before doing some shopping in the local mall.

This movie must have inspired later sci-fi flicks like Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkies and Spielberg's War of the Worlds.

In my opinion, Omega man easily beats other 70/80s kitch sci-fi like Soylent Green and Quiet Earth. But not the magnificent Planet of the Apes (also starring C. Heston).

Wishman's attempt at making a psycho-thriller fails completely.

The plot is hilarious: A girl returns from the asylum after five years. Her brother makes various attempts to make her go mad again. In the end it turns out that her (older?) sister is maybe not to be trusted.

The story is "told" by a private dick who most of the time sits at his desk doing nothing but telling us what time it is!

The most amazing thing about the movie is the soundtrack: Funky-jazzy-whatever music is playing all the time, ie. only very rarely do you actually hear the characters utter anything but one syllable words (noo, aargh, don't!). Actually the use of music is too far out - and the only reason the film gets a five/ten rating from me!

Another good thing to say about the movie is that if you really like movies that are so bad that they're funny - you definitely have to go and see this one (and "zeta one" - another of my favourites).