The Omega Code
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| The Omega Code | |
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 The Omega Code DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Robert Marcarelli |
| Written by | Stephan Blinn Hollis Barton |
| Produced by | Matthew Crouch |
| Starring | Casper Van Dien Michael York Catherine Oxenberg Michael Ironside Devon Odessa |
| Cinematography | Carlos González |
| Edited by | Katina Zinner Peter Zinner |
| Music by | Alan Howarth Harry Manfredini |
| Distributed by | Providence Entertainment |
Release dates | October 15, 1999 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Omega Code is a 1999 action-drama film directed by Robert Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien as the protagonist, Dr. Gillen Lane, and Michael York as the antagonist, Stone Alexander. Its main story is an Evangelical Christian view about the millennium and the Antichrist's plot to take over the world. The film is based on a novel written by televangelist Paul Crouch, head of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which occasionally airs the movie on its cable television station. Produced by Matthew Crouch of Gener8Xion Entertainment, the film beat Fight Club on its opening weekend to become the country's top-grossing movie per screen, with an average of $7,745.[1] It spawned a sequel/prequel that disregards the events in this film while telling the story of how the Antichrist rose to power. The sequel, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, had a larger budget than the original but proved less popular.
Synopsis
The movie starts out in Jerusalem, where a Jewish rabbi is typing a code from the Bible onto his laptop computer. Suddenly, an aiming laser is pointed at his chest, and he is shot and killed. The man who shot him is wearing a rabbi outfit, and taking the computer disk with the codes, he leaves. Then two mysterious men take a page out of the dead rabbi's sweater and keep it. As the assassin is leaving, the two mysterious men keep getting in his way. He surrenders his gun and is allowed to leave.
On the back stage of a talk show, Dr. Gillian Lane (Casper Van Dien), an author and speaker, is getting ready to go on the show. He comes on and explains his book and explains how the Old Testament is a passage to our past, present, and future. After the show, he goes home and visits his ex-wife and daughter on her birthday.
On a peace ceremony in Rome, Stone Alexander (Michael York) is speaking for how he has fed the hungry in Africa with water and food wafers. Dr. Lane is there to visit and "enjoy some fine champagne and to support a worthy cause." It is revealed to the audience that the man who killed the rabbi in the beginning is Stone's apprentice (Michael Ironside). Dr. Lane meets with the host of the t.v. show he was on before and the two begin a partnership.
Lane and Alexander form an alliance and make a worldwide tour of goodwill such as the establishment of the Palestinian state and so on are shown here. Alexander then makes a seven-year peace treaty with the Palestinians and the Israelis and moves on to other regions of the globe. In the meanwhile, Lane's family again do not get to see him, now that he is so busy.
Lane discovers after three and a half years that Alexander used the computer code that was shown in the beginning. This code is based on what is called the 3-D study of the Bible, where prophetic messages are revealed. Alexander and his bodyguard find Lane, with Stone requesting him to be his prophet, upon which he is immediately shot by the guard, who claims that he is the one who should be prophet. He also frames Lane, which later leads to a worldwide manhunt. Meanwhile, Stone miraculously comes back to life, and with the support of seven world governments, proclaims himself as the chancellor of the planet. Meanwhile, two prophets meet Lane and explain that Alexander is the anti-christ, the one who would lead the armies of Satan against God. But Lane refuses to believe them as they say they have come from God, who Lane does not want to talk about because his mother, who raised him in the Christian faith, had been killed by a drunk driver. Later, he escapes to the United States and sends his family to a safe place, only to learn that one of his friends betrayed him. He goes to Israel, where The Dome of the Rock and the new Jewish temple are constructed, where Stone is about to be crowned chancellor. He is then given the code and asked to have faith like that of a child by the prophets, who are later killed by Stone and kept for display, while Stone proclaims himself king and god. This arouses a general protest from both Muslims and Jews. Alexander manages to leave via helicopter, vowing to make an example of Jerusalem. Meanwhile the last code is stolen and used to program the system. Stone then leads armies to Jerusalem as it is the first to withdraw from the global alliance. And just as he is about to order the destruction of Jerusalem, a brilliant light appears, killing Stone in the process.