YMMV / The Omega Code

• Ass Pull: In Megiddo all of Latin America unites into one country during the Time Skip with absolutely no explanation.
• Complete Monster: Satan proves himself to be an utter monster in both films:
  • The Omega Code: In the first movie, Satan possesses Stone Alexander after he is shot in the head, healing Stone and becoming Chancellor of the United World. When two prophets confront him, Satan has them killed and hung on display to serve as a warning to his enemies. When Satan learns that several countries under his rule are seceding from him, he plots to launch a nuclear strike against them, but when he learns that Gillian Lane has the final Bible Code, Satan offers to call off the attack in exchange for the code. However, after Lane gives the code to him, Satan reveals that he is going to initiate the attack anyway.
  • The Omega Code 2: Megiddo: In the second movie, Satan possesses Stone when Stone is a young child, trying to have him burn his baby brother, David, alive. When Stone becomes an adult, he becomes President of the European Union and forms a world government, with Satan forcing him to kill countless dissidents against his regime. When the U.S. President refuses to join Satan's world order, Satan murders him, and when the new president, David, also refuses to join his regime, Satan has him framed for his father's murder, which Satan committed. Satan also plots to wage war against countries that defy him.
• Ham and Cheese: Michael York's performance was pretty much the best thing in the film. It's even better in the sequel.
• Harsher in Hindsight: One of the plot points in "Megiddo" involves Stone using a doctored video in an attempt to frame his brother David for murdering their father a decade before the main events of the plot (actually done by Stone), and when showing the doctored video to David in an attempt to intimidate him into going along with Stone's one world government; David attempts to point out there were witnesses to the fact he was dancing inside the ballroom before Stone dismisses it by noting people would believe anything on television, something which becomes very chilling considering the recent technological advances leading to controversy over the potential use of what are known as "deepfakes".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the first scenes in the first movie almost exactly called Tom Cruise infamously jumping on Oprah's couch.
• Narm: On the second movie, when Stone/Satan reveals his true form, he looks more like a gargoyle than an actual demon. The CGI textures and the bombastic acting by Michael York don't help, either.
• One-Scene Wonder: R. Lee Ermey doesn't get to do much in Megiddo but he makes the most of it anyway.
• Sequelitis: While the first movie has some subtlety and focuses more on the thriller and mystery to make the low-budget movie enjoyable even to secular or non-Christian minded viewers, not to mention it profits a bit, the second movie drops all subtlety, especially on the final act, coupled with terrible CGI and low budget attempt at making a Big Badass Battle Sequence, failed to impress viewers and it was a Box Office Bomb.
• Strawman Has a Point: In the first movie, a reporter questions why Gillen Lane believes in the Bible Code if he doesn't believe in God or Jesus. This is a good question that the movies never answers.
• So Bad, It's Good: While both films are flawed, they are enjoyable thanks to the actors, the cheesy special effects, and low production values. In the first film, it helps its more subtle with its message than one would expect from a Evangelical film.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • The lightning from the second movie looks horrible.
  • Stone's final form is an unsubtle-looking CGI demon.

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