Almost done. I can make it! I can make it!
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This movie is just really bad, but you must be warned. It has come from the belly of the beast and will eat alive lesser critics. It is the horror and tragedy that is...
Omen 4: The Awakening
First things first- this movie gets everything wrong. For one thing, they dropped the word 'The' from the title. Why? Good question. I guess they figured that one 'The' was just too many. I know these seems like a pointless argument in semantics. That's because it is.
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The movie itself is a lot like "Jaws 4"...I mean, "Jaws: The Revenge." It tries to copy parts of the original, it changes the gender of its lead and it just outright sucks. This movie also adds a good supporting actor in hopes of covering up for the lead. In this case, it is Jim Byrnes aka 'Joe' from "Highlander: The Series." He plays a hippie that uses his New Age mindset to help battle the Anti-Christ.*
The evil child in this film is a girl...although it isn't really. For most of the movie, you are meant to believe that she is Damien's illegitimate child. As it turns out, a doctor implanted Damien's seed into the child in the womb, allowing a second kid to be inborn in her. Say it with me: WHAAAA????
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The worst part about the movie is how pretty good actors are actually in it. The mother is the doctor from "V," Don S. Davis- of "Stargate" fame- plays a role and character actor Michael Lerner is in it too. On top of that, the ending is depressing. Despite the third film ending with Damien's death and the apparent return of Christ to bring about the Rapture, all is normal again here. Sure, that makes sense.
*Someone even made a TV pilot to keep this franchise afloat. It apparently takes the "Friday the 13th: Part 7" route and has the Anti-Christ as a floating spirit that possesses people. Yeah, nobody bought it. This saves me the trouble of reviewing that too.
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This ends the Fourquel series...for now. Stay tuned...
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