I went in seeing "The Omen" remake today without many expectations, and for me the movie was okay. It is basically the same plot as the original, and almost everything in the film was the same besides some additions and changes here and there.
Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) is an American ambassador, and his wife, Katharine (Julia Stiles), has a miscarriage. Instead of breaking the news to her, Robert exchanges his dead son for a baby born that morning whose mother died in childbirth. Katharine will never know, and they can raise the son as their own. But on little Damian's 6th birthday, his nanny commits suicide in front of the entire party, and a strange replacement nanny named Mrs. Baylock (Mia Farrow) arrives. As a priest tries to warn Robert of his dangerous son, a reporter teams up with Robert and they together try and determine Damian's origins, for they believe he is the son of the Devil, and they must hurry before more lives are lost and the Antichrist takes over.
Considering this was a remake, it really wasn't that bad. When I saw Julia Stiles was playing Katharine in this film, I was a little skeptical, but she gave a pretty good performance. Hardcore fans of the original film may want to dismiss this a terrible remake of an excellent film, but the two movies really aren't different - they're nearly the same, besides the new actors and modern day settings. They really stuck to the original here. The deaths were a little bloodier, and the settings much more elaborate, which was nice. I thought the release date (06/06/06) was kind of clever, and I'm sure the box office will pull in plenty for this film (at least for today) considering that it's being released the same day all across the world, and how the release date relates to the content of the film.
In my opinion, this was alright for a remake, and I enjoyed it for the most part. It doesn't live up to the original, but it was a worthy effort. Some fans of the original "Omen" may appreciate this, some may not. But definitely see the original before you watch this, that way you can compare the two. It could have been worse. 7/10.
Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) is an American ambassador, and his wife, Katharine (Julia Stiles), has a miscarriage. Instead of breaking the news to her, Robert exchanges his dead son for a baby born that morning whose mother died in childbirth. Katharine will never know, and they can raise the son as their own. But on little Damian's 6th birthday, his nanny commits suicide in front of the entire party, and a strange replacement nanny named Mrs. Baylock (Mia Farrow) arrives. As a priest tries to warn Robert of his dangerous son, a reporter teams up with Robert and they together try and determine Damian's origins, for they believe he is the son of the Devil, and they must hurry before more lives are lost and the Antichrist takes over.
Considering this was a remake, it really wasn't that bad. When I saw Julia Stiles was playing Katharine in this film, I was a little skeptical, but she gave a pretty good performance. Hardcore fans of the original film may want to dismiss this a terrible remake of an excellent film, but the two movies really aren't different - they're nearly the same, besides the new actors and modern day settings. They really stuck to the original here. The deaths were a little bloodier, and the settings much more elaborate, which was nice. I thought the release date (06/06/06) was kind of clever, and I'm sure the box office will pull in plenty for this film (at least for today) considering that it's being released the same day all across the world, and how the release date relates to the content of the film.
In my opinion, this was alright for a remake, and I enjoyed it for the most part. It doesn't live up to the original, but it was a worthy effort. Some fans of the original "Omen" may appreciate this, some may not. But definitely see the original before you watch this, that way you can compare the two. It could have been worse. 7/10.