‘Megiddo’ convuluted mess of propaganda
By Sacralicious

Originally published in The Crescent on September 28, 2001

The two hours it took to watch “Megiddo: The Omega Code 2” were the worst hours I have ever spent in a movie theater. If given the choice, I would rather watch home movies of my own conception than sit through this movie one more time.

I’ve seen many bad movies, but this was the first time I felt it was my civic duty to run up to projection booth, stop the movie and burn it so nobody could ever see it again.

“Megiddo” is the sequel to the 1999 film “The Omega Code” a Christian movie that, through what can only be described as a true miracle, somehow made a profit. It follows the story of the two sons of a media mogul, Stone (Michael York) and David Alexander (Michael Biehn). Stone, at a young age, tries to kill baby David and, in response, his father ships him off to an Italian military school.

Years pass, Stone does well at the school thanks to his literally being the devil incarnate. David and Stone then fall in love with the same woman.

More years pass, Stone kills Daddy. Even more years pass and Stone becomes the evil president of the European Union. (If he is so evil, why do they elect him?) He joins forces with the United Nations to form the World Union. The United States — aka North American sector — won’t join. David becomes president and the plot continues in some sort of confused muddle.

The script, written by an evangelical preacher — who should put down the Bible and pick up a book on scriptwriting — and based upon the book of Revelations, is a convoluted mess of Bible quotes, lousy dialogue and plot holes big enough to drive a truck through.

There is almost no character development. All you have to know is that Stone is Satan and I am pretty sure that David is a prophet. He is also boring and seems to have no control over his situation.

As I watched this movie, wincing in pain with each passing line, a number of questions popped into my head. If Stone was born in America then moved permanently to Italy around the age of 5, why does he grow up to have a British accent? Why do the United States and Mexico seem to be the only members of the North American zone — what happened to Canada? And why don’t I see one Arab person in the area of the Middle East where there’s supposed to be a war?

This film is doomed by its poor script, cheap effects and bad acting. It is not helped by the fact that this is not entertainment but Christian propaganda.

Most of the movie is spent complaining about the evil of the media — which literally becomes the tool of the devil — and other issues that many right-wing Christians like to discuss.

It has an agenda to make the world more Christian. I will say that the movie did get me to pray. When I walked out of the theater, I prayed to God they don’t make an “Omega Code 3.”