Review – The Omen 4

I suppose if one sets out to re-make the original Omen plot with a girl cast as the Antichrist, it’s only natural – however disappointing – when the story starts to resemble the ol’ Bad Seed routine. Weird thing is, roughly two thirds of the way through the film-makers apparently decided to break out of the rut and try a few novel Satanic sight gags. If the first couple of movies in this series left you curious about what the evil visions Damien’s victims saw just before their deaths actually looked like, the mystery is somewhat resolved here. Unfortunately that’s about the coolest thing this flick has to offer (aside from a gnarly rattlesnake attack and an unintentionally funny sequence in which a psychic fair catches fire). By the time the picture lapses into a paper-thin explanation for the connection between this tale and its predecessors, it’s lost most of its already limited ability to entertain. Mildly amusing