
Mike S. | 26 July 2002
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Just a movie? The ultimate spoiler: meet the Anti-Christ (666)
Movie reviewers have to tell readers up front if they are going to give away a movie's plot and ending.
But what if the plot and ending is the FUTURE EVENTS OF MANKIND?
This movie, the Omega Code dares to take the viewer on a forbidden journey — INTO OUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE — without flinching until the very end. More on this later.
The Bible has been with us since Guttenberg created the mass produced book, in fact it was the other way around, the word created the printing press, and the free reformation society we have enjoyed for over 500 years. However, at the dawn of the 21st century the personal computer has unlocked that a supernatural hand wrote the Bible embedding a code of future events that in this film, schlock self-help guru played by Casper van Diem has toyed with to get-rich-quick. His public self-empowerment efforts has captured the attention of a world peace philanthropist played by Michael York. Be advised as you watch this film to ask yourself who is using who? What may seem to be a predictable plot is not what it appears.
Before we discovered the Bible code, we could have always simply READ the book of Revelation to learn how the end times (the Omega, last letter of the greek alphabet) will unfold. Frankly, readers and viewers "do not want to go there." To take us where we don't want to go, the scriptwriters have used the Bible code to revolve the action instead of the direct approach. Michael York has all along been basing his actions on the Bible code in order to eliminate having to take any real risks; as he says "he always leaves himself a way out" and become the ruler of the European Union. Those actions are to unify the world and make him the one world government leader, the anti-christ, the man of sin imitating God (777) but falling short (666). However, he needs a good "PR man" and van Diem is it. Or is he? The movie takes us from the destruction of the Islamic dome of the rock to the rebuilding of a mosque and temple mount for Judaism (both sides get something) to the anti-christ declaring HE is the god of this world.
In the most chilling scene in the movie, before becoming the world's quasi-benevolent dictator, Michael York has died from a gunshot wound received when van Diem escapes from his lair shown with a hospital vital signs "flatline". However, as van Diem and TV reporter/helper Oxenburg escape in a business jet which throttles up for take-off, the anti-christ's vital signs come to life. Alive, though declared dead to the world, what was before a self-ambitious man is now been indwelt by Satan and when his chief henchman enters the room (played by Michael Ironside) he lets him know WHO IS THE BOSS....you will almost wet your pants, its that scary. Its scary because most Americans have read the Bible (to include the book of Revelation — they just don't want to "go there") and this is no science fiction flight of fancy as turning on your TV and seeing events in the middle east proves. Its TRUE. It's going to happen someday in our near future, and the word "creepy" is not strong enough here.
Americans from recent polls sense trouble in the future on a global scale and are apprehensive; at the very end this film falters — I'm sure on purpose — from showing the actual last 3.5 years of the anti-christ's reign on earth where WWIII will break out. The film implies that God, Jesus Christ will return before WWIII and the plagues on mankind are poured out, which is incorrect but probably is as far as you can take an American audience. At this point they have seen and heard more than they have bargained for. So don't let me spoil the real ending here; go find a King James Bible and read the book of Revelation as-is and learn the actual ending of the story that this outstanding, daring movie begins.
1st Lt. Mike S. is a U.S. Army Reserve Airborne veteran, and a former enlisted Non-Commissioned Officer in the USMC. He is a military writer, analyst and equipment inventor. Mike is a co-author of the book Air Mech Strike. He is also a graduate of Liberty University.