I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

A different way of telling a story

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Omega Doom starts at some point in the near future as a war between humans & robots draws to a close, on the last day of the war a military robot named Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) is hit by a stray bullet which wipes his directives & programming out & he suddenly develops a mind of his own... Planet earth is a worn torn wasteland ruled by gangs of robots who now fight amongst themselves for total control of certain areas since there are no more humans to fight, although rumour has it that a group of humans survive & will one day rise from their hiding place & reclaim Earth using a vast stockpile of hidden weaponry (yeah, this really is as bad as it sounds). These days Omega Doom roams the Earth as a loner, he stumbles upon a rundown town where two sets of rival robots, the Droids & the Roms, are both searching for the supposedly hidden weapons but each side has limited knowledge where they are. Omega Doom decides to play them off each other in an attempt to discover the location of the weapons...Co-written & directed by Albert Pyun Omega Doom is one really bad film. The script by Pyun & Ed Naha steals it's main ideas & themes from other much better films such as the fight between man & machine taken from The Terminator (1984), the spaghetti western style loner drifting into town & playing two gangs off each other stolen directly from Yojimbo (1961) & countless other westerns, the soulless robot who suddenly gains human emotion that has been done countless times including Short Circuit (1986) which probably isn't the best example but you understand what I'm trying to say. So besides not having an original bone in it's body Omega Doom is also really slow, tedious & boring & I almost fell asleep watching the thing. There are big problems with the story too, nothing is really explained that well & Rutger Hauer's character is just puzzling as he isn't given any sort of motivation or purpose other than the vague fact he wants to create a peaceful Earth by making everyone kill each other! Sure, I can see the logic in that! It takes itself far too seriously & the whole sorry film is a bore from beginning to end, I'm sorry but as far as I'm concerned it's as simple & straight forward as that.Director Pyun was obviously working with a low budget which is no excuse, the entire film is set in one city block, neither 'gang' seem to have more than three members, the fight & action scenes are pathetic, there's no excitement, atmosphere, violence, gore & a war that has virtually destroyed the entire planet is depicted by having Rutger Hauer kill one person in front of an explosion! There is one other highly annoying aspect to Omega Doom, that is every robot makes stupid & irritating whirring & pneumatic noises when they walk or move except Rutger Hauer's character who doesn't for some reason. Remember when I said there was one more highly annoying aspect of Omega Doom? Well I lied because there were two & the second one being the cringe worthy comic relief robot who keeps getting decapitated.Technically the film is average, director Pyun films in the usual dark blue tones & bright orange candle light ones that are so popular in this type of film (Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) anyone?). It was shot in Slovakia apparently, not that you would have known. The sets are just run down houses & basements, the production design is bland & dull with a standard low budget post apocalyptic look about it. The special effects are poor as well. The acting was brilliant considering the cast were supposed to be stiff & emotionless robots, damn they did a good job!Omega Doom has to be one of the worst sci-fi films I've seen, I hated it. It bored me to tears, it was a complete rip-off of various other much better films & I'm just glad I didn't waste any of my hard earned money on it. This is definitely one to avoid unless you're an insomniac as Omega Doom will get you to sleep in double quick time!

Albert Pyun is really underrated. This guy deserves more attention on how bad he is. Bad as a director and writer, a couple of years ago I already declared him the Ed Wood of modern movie making. Sad thing about directors like Pyun is that they have no talent for movie-making but keep on making movies nevertheless.Reason why I watched this movie in the first place is because Rutger Hauer is in it. It's too bad that he is given awful material to work with, the script has some terrible dialogs.Still I can appreciate a big fat B-movie every now and then. B-movie's are always ridicules and awfully looking with terrible acting. In a way its always very relaxing to watch after a hard week of work. This movie is no exception. Fans of the genre and I know that there are a lot of those, will enjoy this movie big time. It has all the typical modern science-fiction B-movie elements in it.The special effects are laughable bad at times, especially for the character Head. The sound effects also made me laugh. Remember that Cain droid from "Robocop 2"? Remember that sound that he made when he walked? It's a kind of scary sound for Cain but a laughable sound when it is used for just normal human looking droid characters in this movie. It's really not fitting.Don't stop making crap Pyun! In a way I always enjoy it....I kind of like the cover though.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I loved it. It combines elements from classic westerns and science fiction.An icy, lightning fast gunslinger [shank throwing android] nicknamed Guardian Angel rides [walks] into a post apocalyptic town where an uneasy truce exists between two warring factions of androids, the ROMs and the Droids. Guardian Angel has been modified by the few remaining humans on earth. He can now recognize good and evil in androids, and his human given purpose is to take out the evil ones in order to clear the way for humans to rebuild. Like the Man With No Name in "A Fistfull of Dollars," he plays the two sides off against each other.This movie is proof a production does not need JarJar Binks money to be good.

Honestly, I only really picked this up because it came as sort of a "B-Side" to "Blind Fury," a movie I enjoyed very much when a friend of mine showed it to me several months before. I figured "What the Heck?" I wasn't losing any money by watching the B-Side of a movie I wanted to buy anyways.first things first. Don't expect heavy action or high end effects like "The Matrix." Don't expect an intricate plot like Babylon 5. And don't expect it to knock your socks off. This is a B-Movie CLEARLY made on a B-Budget. If you go in expecting it to be Shakespeare, The Matrix, Bab 5, or any other earth shattering experience, you WILL be disappointed.What should you expect? Expect rainy day TV-level sci fi flick. Expect a post-apocalyptic world that in many ways resembles the wild West. Yes, this movie has a lot of things in common with Westerns. It's hard not to pick up on the similarities from the first scene right up until the end. I don't like giving plot spoilers, so I won't get specific, but you can see it there very plainly if you watch it.All in all, it was entertaining. It's a low-budget movie to watch with friends or a cheesey flick to amuse yourself when there's nothing on TV.