THE OMEGA CODE (1999) * Is trivializing the metaphysical a special sin? If so everyone involved with this has some explaining to do. Bible codes, Christian eschatology, the Dome of the Rock, competing interests in Jerusalem, Book of Revelation, and concurrence with current events are fascinating stuff. Unfortunately what Robert Marcarelli gets out of it all is that it might have something to do with self-help gurus, game show mentalities and the fantasies of large women who turn the television on when they wake up and never exercise. The entire thing reeks of "Harlequin does the final days without our signature romance." Doesn't leave much. It's too bad too, it didn't have to be this way. Michael York is intriguing casting for a bad guy, and he definitely has more of it in him than we get to see. Casper Van Dien, on the other hand, is strictly putrid, an imbecile whose lunacy couldn't be interesting even if divinely inspired; I caught myself, well knowing that he was the only hope to save the world for Good, hoping the bad guys would run him over with a truck-thereby saving at least the movie. But no. They needed to do it completely different: maybe Jack Nicholson in the York role, and Johnny Depp as Van Dien. Or Leslie Nielsen and Mike Myers. Hell, even Nielsen and Depp might have worked. I don't know if it is sacreligious to have God's agents speak in such muttonchop, pork-rind infested, cliché ridden pulp drivel but it's not my understanding of how it's worked before.
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