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USA 2007
produced by
David Michael Latt, David Rimawi (executive) for The Asylum
directed by Griff Furst
starring Mark Dacascos, Geoff Meed, Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ryan Lloyd, Joshua Schlegel, Gregory Paul Smith, Matthew Bolton, Myles McLane, Frank Forbes, Afton Forbes, Hayden Forbes, Charles Peeke jr, Wil Braithwaite, Marlon Nash, Bob Landau
written by Geoff Meed, inofficially based on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, special effects makeup by Tara Lang

I Am Legend

review by
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The not-too-distant future: Zombies have long overrun the earth, And the human race is as good as extinct. For all he knows, Renchard (Mark Dacascos), former special forces marine, is the only human left alive, and he's a broken man since the zombies have killed his wife and son. He himself has long barricaded himself inside his house and has become addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs to overcome his grief, boredom and loneliness alike, but still he's a man with a mission: Day after day he goes into the city through the sewers (where the zombies can't smell him) to plant timebombs to blow the place and all its zombies to Kingdom Come as retaliation for the loss of his family.

Then he receives a distress call from a certain Brianna (Jennifer Lee Wiggins) via his computer who is holed up somewhere in the center of the city and would need a bit of rescuing. He turns her down, simply because he's not accostumed to humans anymore, and the day the city goes up in a bang is way too close to risk anything ... but then two rednecks, Vincent (Geoff Meed) and Mike (Ryan Lloyd), show up and try to force Renchard to help them rescue her. They claim they are from the Antioch project, a science facility in the hills, and Brianna is the one person immune against the zombie virus, thus she might be the key to make the world zombie-free once more. Renchard still refuses to go out and save her, so Vincent and Mike blow up his house and threaten to go even further, just so he gives in ...

In the sewers, Renchard, Vincent and Mike are attacked by zombies, and when Mike is killed, Vincent insists on staying with him and urges Renchard to go on alone. Renchard manages to find Brianna, and the two try to make it out of the city - which is easier said than done because Brianna is a pretty stubborn woman and a bit careless, too, which makes them run into zombie ambush after zombie ambush, and then she crashes their car, too ... but they are ultimately saved by Vincent, who only now shows his true colours: He's a bloody supremacist who doesn't want the world go back to what it once was but believes in Darwin's survival of the fittest - so if the weaker of the human race are rooted out by zombies, that's not exactly a bad thing. Of course, he still needs Brianna's immune blood for himself - though it's doubtful he knows what to do with it - but other than that, he doesn't need any other humans safe from Mike ... who might be dead, but Vincent carries him along anymore. Vincent shoots Renchard in the knees but refuses to kill a fellow marine, then he takes off with Brianna and dead Mike.

Renchard manages to jumpstart a car - but now it has become personal, and he goes after Vincent to free Brianna ...

Suffice to say, it all ends happily (well, as happily as can be expected in a world overrun by zombies): Vincent is killed after an extended fight, Brianna is freed, she and Renchard make it out of the city just in time - and finally kiss, just before the titles roll ...

 

As the title suggests, I am Omega is a low budget cash-in (mockbuster) on the Richard-Matheson-adaptation-turned-Will-Smith-vehicle I am Legend, which hit the theatres only a couple of weeks after I am Omega hit the videostores. And as a cash-in, I am Omega was quickly dismissed as an uninspired carbon copy by the notoriously underinformed mainstream press (which doesn't make a lot of sense since I am Omega was out first).

Now truth to be told, I am Omega is not the greatest film ever (which it has probably never set out to be), but it's actually a pretty decent zombie flick with a few very effective scenes (like when Renchard completely freaks out when Brianna first contacts him via the internet) and a rather intelligent script that at least tries to tell an original story within the narrow confines of the typical zombie narrative. Mark Dacascos, not the best actor ever, also gives one of his better performances, while Jennifer Lee Wiggins puts some spunk into her damsel-in-distress role.

However, the film was obviously rushed into production to beat I am Legend to the punch, and it shows: The action scenes do look a bit too hastily executed, some camera setups clearly lack the shine they would have deserved, and at times one just can't shake the feeling there are a few pick-up shots missing. Now all of this is nothing that actually wrecks the film, it's just that the rather decent script of I am Omega would have deserved a little more time and care to get things really right. Still, an enjoyable piece of genre entertainment.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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