Monday, March 30, 2020

Omega Doom (1996)

Rutger Hauer stars in this ill conceived modestly budgeted  sci-fi adaption of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'. Hauer is an android named 'Omega Doom' who wanders into a post apocalyptic town where he plays two warring bands of robots against each other. Very little happens in this movie and I by all rights should have liked it even less then I did, but there was something about the audacity of the slow placing and refusal to do much of anything with the sci-fi setting won it a strange kind of contrarian respect, that lasted about a half an hour. I'd say this movie doesn't demand your full attention but it probably doesn't deserve any of your time, a safe skip. *1/2

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