Metacritic Film

Omega Code, The

Starring Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Michael Ironside, and Catherine Oxenberg

MPAA RATING: PG-13

Providence Entertainment
Suspense/Thriller
99 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 15, 1999

Never before has modern technology uncovered such profound mathematical complexities as revealed within the Bible Code. The Omega Code combines recent discoveries of the Bible Code phenomenon with edge of your seat suspense and psychological horror to weave a millennial tale of international intrigue. (Providence Entertainment)

WRITTEN BY
Hollis Barton
Stephan Blinn

DIRECTED BY
Robert Marcarelli

Overall Metascore

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

14 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Time David Van Biema
Given its budget, the quality of its writing, acting and production is remarkably high--about miniseries level.
20 Los Angeles Times Kathleen Craughwell
A hokey doomsday/millennialist thriller.
20 Austin Chronicle
Proof positive that heavy underground buzz doesn't necessarily imply merit or even intrinsic interest.
20 Film.com
Dreadful suspense piece that has "Mystery Science Theater" appeal written all over it.
20 LA Weekly
Bad photography, bad acting and bad dialogue.
20 Variety
By turns laughably simplistic and confoundingly muddled as it charts the "final battle" between good and evil.
20 TV Guide David H. Jones
Code Word: Bad!
16 Entertainment Weekly Chris Willman
Even Christians hip to TBN preachers' peculiar eschatology may be baffled by the incoherent wrap-up, which provides the stingiest Second Coming since the third ''Omen ''movie.
9 Mr. Showbiz
This wretched jumbo helping of Christian Fundamentalist agitprop takes itself entirely too seriously to be anything but ploddingly dull.

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