Omen III: The Final Conflict

There is only one career path for the son of Satan and that is politics. Nowadays I feel like they could shoot this as if he was the rookie cop joining an elite task force, meaning the Devil's offspring would be ill prepared to compete with politicians when it comes to taking soulless sociopathic actions to further one's own pursuit of power. In closing, I don't care for politicians.

Sam Neil looks at a horse and it throws some idiot monk off a bridge. YEARS OF TRAINING FOR NOTHING,

Damien is now all grown up and this is the instalment where we really start to wonder what the hell (pardon) the Antichrist is good for. No four horses, no great continent devouring dragons. Just Sam Neill bitching at a Jesus statue and killing people in self defense. It's lifted enormously, but ultimately not redeemed, by a baby killing sequence, that joins everything else on the sad road to nowhere.

This is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Neill is decent, but doesn't quite have the impact the character needs. The various slapstick deaths wouldn't go amiss in a Final Destination film, and overall it feels a bit sanitised and small-scale. I think the Goldsmith score elevates it, though, and there's enough going on to hold the interest.

Not good either. This is a long, portentous mess that doesn't work even as mindless entertainment. Sam Neill is quite good as the grown Damien, but you'll be praying for him to punch and eat both Rossano Brazzi and Lisa Harrow, something that sadly never comes. It's slightly better than Part 2, but that's just a minor good thing, since this one is filled with bad ones. Again, puppies are never scary! Jerry Goldsmith provides an exciting, majestic score the film does not deserve.

Alan Grant attempts to kill every newborn in England in order to prevent the Second Coming and secure his reign over the Earth as Satan's child. Not nearly as cool as it sounds. Third in The Omen series, because I guess they were still making money?

A tad better than Omen II but disappointing overall. In the end, it's nothing new, good wins over evil - as always. And Damien is really only scary as a child

More ambitious than 2, 3 at least tries to expand the limited parameters of the series, but the story is too convoluted and gets bogged down in pseudo-religious hokum. Neil isn't bad in the lead, but he was still developing his craft, so his performance isn't as controlled or intense as it intends to be, although he is easily the best thing about it. Baker has some visual style, and he wisely tones down the violence to focus on mood. Shame that he isn't supported by the material.

All the scary suspensful moments you could want wrapped up in religious mystesism and good of fashioned harem scarem.. Works the mind without the need for glamourous effect. Powerfully chilling

While the concept and opening scenes seem to promise a world in catastrophic turmoil and an apocalyptic confrontation between vast forces on a global scale, the reality is mostly set in a fairly sedate London and the climax arrives without anything much really happening. Why the film was planned in this way is unclear to this viewer, but it seems related to the fact that, despite Damien being 27 years older than in THE OMEN, this one's set in what appears to be more or less the same time period.

Condemned to the flaccid bosom of Christ.

An underwhelming conclusion to the original trilogy. The production values and the music are as good as the first two films, but the plot just goes nowhere. It's two hours of Damien sitting around and waiting for some mysterious event to happen. The previous films worked mainly because they focused on the guardians as they came to realise who Damien is - this film focuses solely on Damien, and it turns out he's the most boring antichrist ever.

Not as bad as two, but still not great

good movie

Good story 
But it lacks any cool special effects 
All the kills are offscreen or implied 
Feels pretty disappointing considering what we got from the first two movies

Oh dear. The Omen films take an ignoble turn in part 3. Even the sprightly presence of Sam Niel can't quite overcome the terrible plot, and the 'special' effects, don't impress either. With little of the creeping horror of the first two movies, clearly, watching Damien when he has full control of his faculties, is far less interesting than watching him learn about them.

The Catholic assassins' attempts to kill Damien are about on the same level as Michael Palin's bumbling murderer in A Fish Called Wanda. Surprised there wasn't a zoo scene where Sam Neill glances at an increasingly absurd number of endangered animals to help him dispatch a hapless Italian.

Mildly entertaining in a muted sort of way. Damien never really does anything and doesn't seem worse than the average politician. Definitely better than the second film. The worst part is that you'd think the monks would've trained or at least prepared better for their battle against Damien considering that they known who he was for at least 30 years or so.

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The baby-killing montage is impressively ghastly enough (and I was pleasantly surprised by a hint of female nudity in a series otherwise devoid of it), but overall I found it dull and, in the end, deeply anticlimactic. Damien has got to be the least imposing Antichrist ever.

More Christian thriller than horror as we follow priests running around trying to stab Damien. Mostly undercooked -- best thing is operation by his followers to kill every baby boy born in England on march 24th (no killing is shown on screen; suggestion of each murder is kind of disturbing) --, but guess half of my rating goes to my all-time favorite scream king delivering monologues about how he hates JC, but actually fears the Second Coming baby is draining his powers. Fucking cheesy finale.

Plodding. Neill has real charisma as Damien, but the remainder of the cast suffers from a bad case of tired blood; direction and writing are both very uninspired, with few of the usual "creative death" scenes this series is noted for packing much of a wallop. Look for a cameo by Hazel Court during the fox-hunting scene.

Sam Neill has some moments as a grown up Damien in this otherwise pretty awful follow-up intended as the closing of an epic trilogy. Many of the shock scenes are laughably bad, and the dialogue is underwhelming. The only other saving grace is Jerry Goldsmith's score. An unfortunate drop in quality from the effective 1976 classic.

Not bad.

There's still cool religious imagery and plenty of excellently staged accidents, there's just too much of a "been there done that" feel.

Om3n's heroes are a bunch of incompetent monks pretending to be civvies so they can stab a philanthropist businessman to death--it's more mundane than it sounds. There's a scene where a Satanic acolyte bashfully asks to borrow the Antichrist's car.

Sets up an apocalyptic plot, almost cosmic in scope: the son of Satan preparing himself for the 2nd coming of christ; but what actually unfolds is quite boring and nonsensical gibberish that seems to give up before even trying to live up to the expectations.