The last entry in the feature film 'Omen Trilogy' is a disappointment even compared to its middling predecessors. Damien is now a grown up played by Sam Neill, whose mostly waisted in this. 32 years of age and heading his family conglomerate, he takes a step back from day to operations to assume his father's old post as the US Ambassador to Great Britian (a vacancy having been conveniently opened up for this job via the forces of darkness). The forces of light are back too, mostly monks and priests, they have relocated the sacred daggers which are the only instruments capable of killing the Anit-Christ. Several assassination attempts fail.
There are also story points concerning the impending second coming of Christ, but in a break with prevailing doctrine apparently Jesus is coming back as an infinite again (so he can grow up to face a sixty-something Anti-Christ?) But Jesus won't have to be the one to end the Anti-Christ's reign, which will prove to be short and low key, as he is to be felled by a single mother that he recently started dating. This film lacks the scale which would seem to go with such a cosmic story, there's a few decent set pieces, but its mostly people talking in rooms and Damien raging in front of a crucifix which he keeps just to rage in front of. This was silly, rather cheap looking, and really bad. *
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