Metacritic Film

Megiddo

Starring Michael York, Michael Biehn, Udo Kier, and Greg Ellis

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, warfare and some thematic elements

Gener8Xion Entertainment
Suspense/Thriller
104 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 21, 2001

Both prequel and sequel to "The Omega Code," this is a supernatural ride into a world teetering on the edge of the Apocalypse. (8X Entertainment)

WRITTEN BY
Stephan Blinn
John Fasano
Hollis Barton
Paul Crouch (novel)

DIRECTED BY
Brian Trenchard-Smith

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

35 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 New Times (L.A.)
The movie gets bogged down in dull dialogue, despite some truly impressive special effects and a hilariously silly CG devil who closely resembles his counterpart from the PlayStation game Tekken 2.
50 LA Weekly
Ironically, for all the paranoia, York's Defiler and his henchman, an always game Udo Kier, are an oasis of wit in an otherwise parched, self-serious script.
40 Los Angeles Times
What's wrong with Megiddo is not its good-versus-evil theme but the clunky, unpersuasive manner in which it has been expressed.
30 Variety
Apocalyptic gobbledygook.
30 Austin Chronicle
Barely even worthy of a straight-to-video release, as simplistic and silly as it is.
20 Mr. Showbiz
Once the action starts to kick in, Megiddo morphs, minute by minute and scene by scene, into a Mystery Science Theater smorgasbord.

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