The Omega Man | 
| Actors: Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, John Dierkes, Jill Giraldi, Monika Henreid
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 3437
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD116321D
UPC: 085391163213
EAN: 0085391163213
ASIN: B000P0J0BU
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
Release Date: May 15, 2007
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 Charles Manson goes to Woodstock March 24, 2009
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wasn't particularly impressed despite the fact that I always enjoy Charleton Heston. The Director/Producers of this film seem to have been interested in producing something of a hippie movie, therefore the movie looks dated, indeed.
Heston, who suspects he is the last bona fide human on earth doesn't fit the hippie image, of course, but he does spend time watching reruns of the movie 'Woodstock'. His adversaries are the albinoid, diseased survivors of an epidemic that has destroyed civilization. They are religiously fundamentalist--against the 'machine'--and are zombioid and lethal. They are led by the Manson-like Mathias, who refers to his flock--again Manson-like--as 'The Family.'
Well, it turns out the Heston isn't the only one left. There is a handful of surviviors who bear all the appearances of members of a hippie commune. Heston's love interest is a black woman who looks amazingly just like the 60s-70s radical Angela Davis. Alas, it isn't to be. Angela turns into a zombie; Heston is speared by Mathias and the hippies go off to never-never land.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
 Holy Moses...One of Hestons Best! March 16, 2009
chris lukeman (Central NJ, USA)
Of those reviewers that felt that this film fell short of Hestons other Sci Fi films--shame on them. We, who have seen this one know the plot...Charlton Heston plays a government scientist that holds the key to survival...the antidote to the biological weapon his government help create, a deadly plague that either kills or genetically mutates the survivors of the disease and drives them insane. He, Dr. Nevill, is Satan to the mutated survivors--activly pursuing and killing them (putting them out of their misery). Hey--it's them or him--I vote for survival. I think the only thing I would do different is move out of the city, away from those REALLY creepy half dead zombies.I understand Hestons caracter refused to give in to them and stay where he was..but......The real point is--even though this movie is based on the R. Mattheson book--I am Legend--and not really close to the original story..who cares? The movie is good on it's own. Put it this way...unless I am in bed and can pull the covers over my head--I still won't watch this film downstaires in the dark by myself...but then neither my wife or kids will watch this with me either....It is a bitter-sweet film and you almost feel releaved rather than sad when Heaston is killed in the end--he was the one who was truely tormented.
Chuck vs the Photophobes February 23, 2009
T. Harris (The Desert Waste)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gimme Heston vs. crazy villains any day. This is one of the big 70's Sci-Fi movies. Along with "Planet of the Apes" and "Soylent Green," these movies made me a big Sci-Fi fan. It's a little cheesy, but it holds up well. one & 1/2 thumbs up.
2.5 stars out of 4 February 3, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
One of the most dated movies of all time and a completely laughable adaptation of Matheson's novel, The Omega Man is really pretty awful except for the fact that it offers so much campy fun: the obvious stunt doubles, the terrible acting, the afros, the white makeup, the dialogue, the hastily-tacked-on Christ analogy...I love it!
Well worth it! December 16, 2008
PaulB (Lewisville, Texas)
There are plenty of plot reviews here for those who like all the detail. So if you want to read critical reviews this is not one of those.
IMO this film had a much better story than I Am Legend. The 70's feel is all through the movie in the actors, the clothes, the scenes and dialog. Charlton Heston acts with his usual larger than life gusto which defines his movies. My only complaint was that the "madness" which befalls "Family" members when they change was really not explained well. The sexuality between Heston and Cash was probably quite daring in 1971.
Oh...don't miss those crazy one-color "Track-Suits".
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