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The Omen

2006

John Moore

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow ...

5.0

6,621

Horror. Thriller An American diplomat begins to suspect that something is wrong with his son, Damien, after a series of strange accidents takes place around him. He begins to suspect that Junior is actually the son of the devil, in this remake of the 1976 Richard Donner classic horror film.

	Author	Review
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"I don't approve of remakes, but The Omen redux is riveting, imaginative and ultimately bone-chillingly satisfying."	POS
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"Other than the obvious marketing advantages of releasing this movie on 06/06/06, a second Omen seems completely unnecessary, even if it is kind of fun."	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"A disastrously miscast remake of the 1976 horror classic, which retains the apocalyptic themes of David Seltzer's original script but renders them dull and fright-free."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Not since Gus Van Sant inexplicably directed a shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock's Psycho has a thriller been copied with so little point or impact."	NEG
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"This new version is an almost scene-for-scene remake, which is good news in the first half and bad news in the torpid second."	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"When all else fails, pump up the thunder and lightning. That seems to be an operating principle behind the supremely unnecessary remake of the 1976 horror fest."	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper	"It's like hearing a great cover version of a classic rock song."	POS
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"I say rent the original. It tells exactly the same story, with a better cast and with special effects that are as good or better."	NEG

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