I am Omega: The Movie

I love zombie movies, so every time I see on set to play on TV, I TiVo it (gadda love TiVo!!). So this past weekend I saw I am Omega on the SyFy channel. The preview sounded good. The last man alive must battle against a bunch of zombies to survive alone. Not bad, I read I am Legend, and although the movie sucked (except for that hot ass shot of Will Smith without his shirt on doing pull-ups in the beginning, I think every girl in the theater appreciated that part!) the book was awesome! The book was great and if you haven’t read it, I suggest doing so. Heck, the book is great...I just wish that after all the failed attempts of turning good books into moives, people would have learned. But I must admit that the beginning of I am Omega was more like the book I am Legend then the movie they did. Anyway, I fade from my original point.

I am Omega…well what can I say except that I think I wasted about 1 ½ hrs of my life. Thank GOD that I had TiVo and could fast forward through quite a bit of it. It starts off with a mother trying to save her child, she ends up getting attack by what I can only assume was a zombie. It was the WORST zombie I have ever seen; it looked more like a bad version of Nemesis from Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It had its spine on the outside of its body and I cannot even begin explain how bad it was. So the zombie kills the mother and child….

The movie jumps to I guess the middle of the apocalypse and the last man, Richard, alive is actually the father and husband to the wife and child. How was this represented you may ask….he looked at a picture. Horrible. And since he is, supposedly, the last man the first (what seemed like an hour) part of the movie was basically silent. Besides his random words…nothing was spoken.

So the movie adventures on and one evening Richard is contacted through his lap top by a girl, Brianna, who is located in the city and she wants Richard to come rescue her. Ummm…one man going into a zombie infested city to rescue one girl…I do not think so.

So here I have to point out the fact that this movie was a little wacked by the fact that they STILL had power YEARS after civilization had died. Whatever…
So Richard tells Brianna no…like any sane person would so then 2 guys show up at Richards house and say they are going to rescue Brianna because she is the cure to the zombie outbreak and Richard has to show them the way. ANYONE who has read or watched zombie movies knows you don’t trust people outside your safe zone and those guys were outside the safe zone, but Richard goes to save the girl…I guess it wouldn’t be a movie without that.

I guess I shouldn’t give anymore away in case you want to torture yourself to some pretty crappy acting and a really bad script and just have a night of getting drunk and laughing at a stupid ass movie, but I personally really wouldn’t waste the time. It was an extremely boring movie, and as I mentioned before thank god for TiVo so I could fast forward through a lot of this and get done with it ASAP (I had to finish it in case the movie…at some point…decided to get better.)