The Omen (2006)
Director: John Moore
A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen (1976), an American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate. This time around we have Liev Schreiber playing Robert Thorn. And we have Julia Stiles, who I will forever remember as the girl from 10 Things I Hate About You, plays Katherine Thorn. It’s overall a lot shiner on Blu-ray, but I feel it still doesn’t do that much better on the pace and the things changed were not changed for the better.
If you’ve seen the original film from 1976, then you know where this one is going. It gets there in a few different ways than in the original, but those changes aren’t good. In a way to avoid spoilers I’ll just state that for a prime example, what happens with the character of Katherine in the ’76 version is a whole lot better than what happened here in the ’06 version. I think they were trying to go for a much more emotional impact with this one, but ultimately is falls short. The kid is still creepy. Some of the stuff that happens is still freaky. Yet I still just felt like something with this one was missing.
I do like Liev Schreiber in the role of Robert. I think he puts enough emotion and all that important stuff into his performance. I just don;t think anyone around him in the movie kept up with him that well. Ultimately the film goes about like you’d expect it to. The changes were not changes that we’d find better than the original. I do have to say that the transfer at least looks really good. Just wish it had went a more Night of the Living Dead 1990 route when it comes to remake styles. This isn’t horrible, but it’s a little underwhelming.
(6.5/10)
