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okay, I am only given this a four because I also watched "Undead or Alive", a truly repulsive "zombie comedy" starring the unfunny Chris Kataan. So this little Asylum stink bomb actually took on a new luster after watching that abomination.

If you've seen the Omega Man or Last Man on Earth, you'll understand the plot. The majority of the human race has been wiped out by a plague that turns people into flesh-eating zombies. A single survivor lives in a fortress home and fights off nightly attacks by Zombies. During the day, he is planting bombs with the intent of blowing up an entire city. (It is never clear why he wants to do this, other than killing off all the Zombies.)

He gets a call from a woman trapped in the city. Yes, humanity has fallen, but the internet still works. She is the only person immune to the plague, and maybe they can make a vaccine from her blood. He meets up with two survivalist types who help him rescue her, but they intend to kill the girl so that a world where survivalists aren't considered nuts will continue.

Well, anyway, after losing the survivalists, the Hero finds the girl, and they find a car in an underground parking garage where surprisingly, the lights are still on. Yes, humanity has fallen, but the lights are still on. After a running battle with zombies who spend way too much time doing the sneak past the camera maneuver, they meet up with the surviving survivalist, who shoots the hero in all his limbs and leaves him to die.

A final battle ensues where he rescues the girl from imminent rape, and the hero and the girl ride off into the sunset, watching the city blow up in a cheap special effects sequence.

Okay, it isn't good, but you have to admire works like this, where a lot of beginning filmmakers can show their stuff. It is a lot better than garbage like Undead or Alive, where people who should know better make bad movies.

Before watching this I asked myself, why doing an "Omega" movie, just before I am Legend comes to the big screen. Is this supposed to be just another remake of The Omega man? Well, while watching it, I was still asking the same question to myself... And I could not answer it even after the cast rolled. Well, I enjoy end-of-the-world and post-apocalyptic movies, that's why I watched this title. But it seriously lacks originality. Casting and acting is in line with the budget, cinematography is quite weak, but the weakest point here is the screenplay, that once tries to be funny than in another minute it tries to be serious. The world as we know it has ended, after all, and the zombies are on the loose, for god's sake. Don't make the fancy move with the machete when you are one of the last survivors on Earth, just silence that damn creepy zombie, please!!!!!

Just got done watching this movie. Seems like a solid story and I like the parallels with the I am legend movies. Seems like they tie in well and flush out more of the background. Be warned this is low budget but that does not mean it is a waste of time. People who complain about them not having money to make it better need to chill out and realize that the story is solid. The acting is great except for the girl who I just wanted to die. Whenever she talked she ruined the movie. The guys did a great job with their characters and they really came to life. I would have given this an 8 but that horrid acting from that girl made me give it a 4. She turned low budget film into a disaster. I would rather watch babies get kicked out windows then watch her in another movie.

Yes this movie is low budget so why complain about that. If you like good stories that are survival horror or apocalyptic you might like this. I liked it except for that girl who just ruined the movie for me. Her acting is very out of character and it shows unfortunately. Luckily her horrible attempt at acting didn't lower the morale of the other actors on the set.

Hope this gets remade with the same people minus the stupid girl who has no talent!!!

I Am Omega is set in a post apocalyptic world which is now overrun by flesh eating zombies, only a small number of humans still exist including Renchard (Mark Dacascos) who lives out in the sticks on his own in total isolation. One night Renchard unexpectedly gets a video message from a woman named Brianna (Jennifer Lee Wiggins) who is naturally immune to the zombie virus & her blood may lead to a cure for the virus. After a bit of persuasion Renchard agrees to travel to her & save her in one last desperate effort to save the human race...

Directed by Griff Furst this is a bottom of the barrel Asylum produced low, low budget 'mockbuster' rip-off of The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) & the recent Will Smith Hollywood blockbuster I Am Legend (2007) with even it's title being a rather unfunny combination of The Omega Man & I Am Legend. The script by Geoff Meed (who also stars in the thing as Vincent) is simply terrible thus proving his writing skills are as limited as his acting skills. OK so I Am Legend & The Omega Man both had some sort of back-story, some reason why the Earth is overrun with zombies but here in I Am Omega no explanation is given at all. None. Zip. Nothing. The film starts with the Earth overrun with zombies & we just have to accept it. Then there's no explanation as to why certain people still survive, OK so Brianna is immune but what about Renchard, Vincent & Mike? Why are they still alive? What happened to all the other people on Earth? There's nowhere near enough zombies to account for them. Then there's some rubbishy subplot about blowing an entire city up with a few homemade bombs, to destroy an entire city would take a nuclear bomb not two or three homemade bombs strapped to sign posts! The plot is just awful, the first half of I Am Omega consists of nothing more than following Renchard around, while in I Am Legend there was enough of a budget for plenty of action here we gets scenes of him shaving, eating dinner & driving around. There's also a touch of a George A. Romero zombie flick here, the zombies are all rotten flesh eaters & can actually come out during the day. The set-pieces are poor, the dialogue is poor, the character's are poor & the plot is one of the worst around. Why didn't it just rip-off the genetic experiment gone wrong explanation from I Am Legend? Most of the rest of the film is a straight unashamed rip-off anyway. Also why oh why did Renchard & Brianna choose a convertible car with the top down while trying to flee hordes of flesh eating zombies? Wouldn't a car with a roof actually make a bit more sense? Frankly they deserved to get eaten. Also when a zombie got near Renchard's house a headache inducing alarm would sound which is OK but wouldn't a loud alarm just attract more zombies?

Like a lot of modern films I Am Omega has a lot of it's colour bleached out & certain scenes aren't too far away from being black and white. Why can't filmmakers just shot scenes 'as is', you know nice strong colour depth on proper 35mm film with grain the size of cannonballs. I fear those days are long gone unfortunately. There's nothing in the way of horror, the fight scenes are poor & there's a CGI computer effect when Renchard's house blows up that looks so bad I think I could have done a better job on my home PC. The zombies are all on set prosthetic make-up effects rather than the CGI of I Am Legend, they look alright but with the camera shaking around all over the place we never get a good look at them & they don't really do much apart from stand there & create problems for the character's. Gore wise there's nothing here, there's a rotten skeleton, a few zombies & a few bullet wounds.

Filmed in California the film looks cheap, it feels cheap & I found it pretty hard to sit through at times. The acting is poor, Dacascos is there for rent money while no-one else of any note appears.

I Am Omega is one of the most blatant rip-offs ever, it's nowhere near as good as it's original sources & is a pretty poor mess of a film all round. Some sort of plot &/or explanation for whats going on might have been nice for a start.

The tough and resourceful Renchard (a sturdy and credible portrayal by Mark Dacascos) has managed to survive a deadly plague that has turned most of the population into dangerous mutant zombies. Director Griff Furst, working from a tight and absorbing script by Geoff Meed, relates the engrossing story at a brisk pace, maintains a dark, grim, and serious tone throughout, makes fine use of desolate backwoods locations, delivers a handy helping of bloody violence, and stages the action with real flair and skill. Decascos makes for a strong and believable protagonist as he struggles to keep his sanity, vigorously mixes it up with the ghouls, and uses a gun, a machete, and his own bare hands to take out the fiends. Moreover, there are sound supporting performances by the gorgeous Jennifer Lee Wiggins as the spunky Brianna, Meed as happy-go-lucky redneck Vincent, and Ryan Lloyd as Vincent's laconic partner Mike. The rot-faced zombies are truly grotesque and frightening. The last third with Renchard rescuing Brianna from a zombie-infested city is extremely tense, gripping, and exciting. Alexander Yellen's sharp cinematography gives the picture an effectively bleak sun-bleached look. David Raiklen's rattling ominous score hits the rousing spot. A worthwhile movie.

In a post apocalyptic world ravaged by disease, embittered survivor Renchard (Mark Dacascos) leads a life of solitude dedicated to the destruction of the mutated plague victims that killed his wife and son.

Having planted high-explosive time-bombs all over the city where the zombie-like creatures now reside, Renchard is forced by two highly trained special forces soldiers, Mike and Vincent (Ryan Lloyd and Geoff Meed), to lead a dangerous mission into zombie central to rescue immune damsel in distress Brianna (Jennifer Lee Wiggins), who might just hold the answer to a cure for the epidemic.

I might be stating the bloody obvious here, but martial arts star Mark Dacascos really doesn't possess the necessary acting chops to convincingly portray a lonely, tortured soul pushed to the edge of his sanity in a world gone wild—which is why Asylum mockbuster 'I Am Omega' works best whenever director Griff Furst abandons character development in favour of showcasing his lead performer's undoubted ability to kick ass.

Between the banal scenes in which Renchard goes crazy, listens to imaginary radio broadcasts, urinates morosely on the Vasquez Rocks (surely US cinema's most overused filming location) and gibbers like a loon, he exterminates any zombies stupid enough to wander onto his patch, which gives Dacascos a chance to show off his moves, splatter heads, and shoot stuff. During these moments we get some genuinely tense action and several effective scares and for a while 'I Am Omega' looks set to fulfil its potential as an enjoyable piece of B-movie trash.

Unfortunately, once Renchard enters the city and the clock ticks inexorably towards the inevitable explosive ending, matters get progressively sillier. It ultimately all falls apart in a mess of plot holes and culminates in an extremely dumb finale that sees our battered and bruised hero not only managing to run and push a car, despite having been shot in the legs, but also perform an impressive combination of martial arts moves to beat the bad guy and save the day.

5.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 6 for the hilarious 'zombie in the dumpster' scene.

With a low budget look & a no name cast, I'll be honest that I didn't expect much from this film. It's a rip-off of The Omega Man and thats MUCH better.

An odd start where a boy sees his mother killed, its hard to know if the guy rescues him or he becomes the guy we see later. Either way that guy (Richard) is haunted by ghosts of the dead and some monsters (the infected) seem to roam the Earth. There's no back story there, it just happened. Richard seems to go about his day filled with paranoia waiting for something to jump out at him & attack. His experience with the infected after the rabbit was a bad idea, Never show your monsters in broad daylight unless it's a killer make-up job. Which this wasn't.

Why he was planting explosives on a natural gas line also goes unexplained until much later, he's going to blow up the local city to wipe out a nest of the infected. (you think he'd want to keep infrastructure working for when civilisation restarts?). I'm guessing the makers were aiming at the Survival Horror genre here (like Resident Evil) and missed by a mile, mainly due to the low budget look and poor fight sequences/gore effects.

Richard is clearly a man bothered by hallucinations (the clock, the computer emails) and doesn't have much to do to fill his time but we get to watch him doing nothing. Quite a lot of nothing in fact. Which is very dull.

Finally getting a message over his computer from someone who appears to not be infected (Rihanna) he decides not to help (she tells him about Antioch and sees he's not infected). He goes to set another bomb on the pipeline and is attacked, getting blood on him and ends up chasing another hallucination (btw, continuity goof with the blood on his hair). The following day 2 dudes turn up from Antioch asking if he wants to help them rescue the girl. They tell him she's got the anti-virus in her blood to interest him. He turns them down so they blow up his house with a rocket launcher (that's supposed to be an incentive?).

Anyway Vincent (the lead Antioch guy) gets attacked (and possibly bitten/infected?) and they head off to find Rihanna after a brief and very crap fight sequence that was over done and not required. We get an insight into the sewers and why their free of infected but guns can't be used there and they set off to & through the sewer.

Obviously their attacked and use guns (so the infected clearly don't have problems in the sewers like we were told or they forgot that info really quickly?) and Micheal (the other Antioch guy) is killed.

After a brief overland dash on his own (he left Vincent in the sewer) Richard reaches Rihanna's position (she's not sat waiting for him? What gives?). After the rescue they both run across the city (Oxnard, it said so on the dumpster!) and we have their attempt to find a stick shift (manual gearbox to the non Americans) car which they don't do anyway. We also get some background history on Rihanna.

Of course the car stalls as they reverse, allowing some infected to get close and for Richard to go Postal on them. She takes off without him leaving him in what seems like certain death until she saves him. Oh, and clearly there was no budget for a stuntman to be run over, the dummy was a very weak effect there.

Even though she's been told to drive fast they seem to cruise at about 2 miles an hour so we can ride along as they converse, but they still manage to crash over a very small earth ramp leaving them 4 hours to escape the city on foot to get away from the gas explosion. He ends up fireman carrying her (and she's obviously injured from the way she's crying and moaning over his shoulder).

Fortunately Vincent arrives to ferry them away and she's put in the back of the van with Micheals dead body. The unarmed fight sequence here was pointless and unnecessary as they were supposed to be very short on time. Vincent shoots Richard 3 or 4 times in the legs & chest then reveals he & Micheal weren't from Antioch (no surprise) and has his little diatribe about how he doesn't want a cure because it'll mean going back to a bad old life because he's an Alpha Dog in this one.

Vincent leaves with Rihanna and lets Richard live because of his soldiers code. When I saw Richard pushing a car (twice!) I had to laugh (he's been shot and could barely walk hours ago!). I also couldn't decide if from his colour we were supposed to infer he was dying or was in the early stages of infection? Now I started to find myself questioning Vincent's motives.

If he wanted Rihanna dead, why bother going to get Richard to help rescue her? They knew about the bombs, she'd have died without their help or assistance. That was answered when he decides to rape her before killing her. Richard's fight with Vincent has got to be one of THE most pointless things in the film. He's supposed to have been shot several times, almost mortally wounded! He'd be in no state to fight.

A fight which he of course wins and kills Vincent (no soldiers code from Richard then?). Of course they escape the huge (and very crap) explosion and apart from an awful and pointless attempt at a scare we're left with a very weak ending to a generally weak and awful film.

Never trust anything where the screen writer casts themselves in the 2nd biggest role.

Another version of Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend" which had a few positives. The zombies, or whatever they ere, were well done with good make-up. The cinematography at times was atmospheric. Renchard's home was aptly designed. It did look dystopian. Mark Dacascos was plausible as a man on the edge, haunted by the past and not sure of the present. When it was just him onscreen the film gripped. Unfortunately as a few more characters came in it got more far fetched and flippant, dissipating the tension and fear. The ending was a bit silly. But kudos as always to the dependable Mr. Dacascos.

The DVD cover says: "The last man alive must battle a planet of the dead"...Duh-Football, I do believe there were quite a few other 'Last Man's' in this movie which ruined it for me. I like a good cheap 'B' movie but why lie to sell a movie! Corny and completely in the gutter styled directing, I rate this movie 'AL', for 'A Lie'. Now next time you advertise last man, mean it! The zombie pushing a dumpster was unusual, which made me think 'Why?',and paid off after a forced viewing because I paid to rent this movie! The cover shows A Man standing on a Truck amidst a city full of zombies, I never saw that in the movie! Zombies were terrible, acting was fair, plot was followable. And the ending when the bombs blew up the city, now that was a 4th of July, backyard firecracker scene if I ever saw one! Some movies are so bad they're good, but this is so bad its useless. Please save your money for a better movie if you know of one.

Futuristic yarn about a lethal plague killing or mutating every living and breathing human on Earth. Renchard(Mark Dacascos)believes he's the only person left to battle with horrific mutants taking control of the planet. He receives a plea for help from a young woman named Brianna(Jennifer Wiggins), who reminds him of his dead wife. Two ex-marines arrive at Renchaard's home and forcefully has him help them find the same Brianna, because they believe she may be the key to an anti-virus. A hell of a lot of martial arts; Dacascos has only appeared in several dozen martial arts movies. And yes, since 2005, you may have noticed him on the Food Network playing the part of the Chairman on the series Iron Chef America. Also in the cast: Ryan Lloyd, Gregory P. Smith and Geoff Mead, the movie's writer.

Yes folks, with Will smith's big actioner due out soon, it was perhaps inevitable that some pokey little production house would throw up (in the vomitous sense) a feeble version of it in order to try to rake in some easy bucks.

I am Omega wears its title without any apparent shame at the implied plagiarism. Charlton Heston's The Omega Man and the aforementioned I Am Legend are mercilessly hacked together to form the title of this movie. No doubt the target audience was deemed too dim to realise what the film was about unless such blatant cut-and-shut naming was employed.

So is the movie, despite its awful title, any good? In a word.....no.

It suffers from a deplorable excess of taking itself too seriously which, by turns, frustrates and annoys the viewer. There is altogether too much time spent "exploring" the lead character's neuroses. Nothing is explained adequately and to say the first half hour drags would be like saying molten lead might hurt if you drank it.

Key plot points, such as Renchard's desire to destroy the city, are followed, but no reason is given as to why he wants to do this. Likewise, the "bad guys" want ultimately to dispose of the woman who is immune to the zombie virus (tm). To do this the best way they come up with is to get her out of the city then kill her. The city which they know is going to be blown up by Renchard. So why not just leave her there to die in the fireball?

The level of acting is about what you'd expect from this level of production, which is to say, bearable for the most part. The script, as mentioned, is full of holes you could drive an earth-mover through. Special effects are rather lacking though the zombie make-up isn't too badly done.

Overall, this is , as I mentioned in the summary, the cheap "own brand" version of the better product. The Omega Man is far more interesting than this effort and I'm sure I Am Legend won't disappoint either. In fact, I'd rather watch the I Am Legend trailer repeatedly for an hour and a half than be forced to watch I am Omega again.

In short then, don't bother with this one, it really isn't worth the effort.