avalonjoyous Sam as usual is an excellent actor as usual .However that being said whilst this entry does have some suspense and rather graphic deaths (a few anyways) the movie is B O R I N G .The ending was rushed,the supporting characters are barely even on screen and they are dull and uninteresting .The only part of the movie that was worth it was the monks sent to kill Damien stupid as they were their part was the most interesting part of the whole film.This entry is also very disturbing regarding the murder of newborns and at the end of the film the death of the love interest of Damien has her child killed by Damien .It also didn't help that this entry didn't have many people to root for to survive except the monks,the mother,and the children killed .Even Damiens associate is an unconscionable and despicable man whom only grows a conscience when the safety of his newborn son comes into question regarding some ridiculous nonsense about children born on a certain date or day.I fell asleep through half of this and Damien talks incessantly one part where he is speaking anger at a being called Jesus down in some weird private room with statues I thought his boring blather would NEVER EVER end.Hard pass enjoyed the first two films found those both unsettling,creepy,and satisfying.However this entry simply sucked despite Sams usual solid acting despite the asinine material he was given for this film.Highly NOT recommended.

johnnyboyz The Final Conflict arrives, and for its first third or so consequently develops, with a refreshing sense of change. Gone, during this time, is the framework often rife within the first two films of the series; films revolving around the life and times of an infant boy who happens to be the one that'll lead the world into oblivion on account of the fact he is the Antichrist. Back then, he was too young to really figure all that stuff out and the films were essentially about adults, or more specifically the boy's guardians, spending a good chunk of the feature trying to figure everything out before coming across the shocking revelation and then acting on it. They were, of course, foiled and thus we arrive at this third Omen movie with the young boy having grown up into a man: foreplay revolving around this antiheroic creature causing mischief and generally coming to be at odds with the functioning Christian world around him gone, replaced only with a full on acknowledgement that destruction and religious new order is his calling.Alas, there is sadly a point wherein we realise the film appears all too keen to fall back into old habits. The fact Sam Neill is now playing once-whipper snapper Damien Thorn as a grown up, and that instead of engaging in trips to the zoo wherein the animals will bolt at the first sign him as parental figures strive to work it all out, we get a group of priests struggle against finding the character so as to foil him themselves. In doing so, they will need a collection of daggers that have been knocking around since the first film; daggers crucial in Damien's demise and the liberating of the world from his potential evils.The film will begin with the daggers and the merry journey they've undergone over the years via excavations and pawn shops. We're made aware of the daggers very early on; aware of their importance in that the finding and acquiring of them are detailed to us in a way that could only suggest they will play an important role later on. Meanwhile, Thorn is enjoying life as a prophet of the apocalypse under the guise of presidency for a company ironically specialising in the helping and aiding of people, what with its Soya produce and charitable policies. Director Graham Baker would probably like you to read into Thorn's role, running in tandem with precisely what it is Thorn is, as a sort of statement on conglomerancies as a whole – this one has The Devil running it, although the anti-capitalist statements about these companies being run by individuals out to enslave and rule the ignorant masses gets a little lost, in spite of the fact they're quite good fun to read into.Thorn is a charismatic man. We witness him dominate a television interview just prior to putting his abilities we first observed in the second film (wherein he reeled off a whole number of dates to his history teacher) when we watch him advise the President of the United States, no less, on a delicate foreign situation with a string of facts and figures. There are those, of course, who are out to thwart this character but Thorn's indomitable personality and position of such distinction makes it hard for the group of Vatican priests out to kill him look much more than a gang of religious kooks with a maddening murderous agenda. What is refreshing is that they know what they must do from the off: the film one long conquest between these two sides of good and evil; not bogged down by what eventually got to be quite dull in the second film, as his step-father took an age to figure it all out before being granted the odd five minute burst at the end to act on it.With Damien striving to get those daggers himself, thus eliminating any threat of anyone turning the tables on him, and the priests tripping over themselves trying to eliminate the guy, the scene is set for an all out war complicated by a virtuous equivalent to Thorn due to be born in the near future (but wouldn't we all have to wait for him to be old enough to actually LEAD us in the war?) as well as journalist-come-love interest Kate Reynolds (Harrow) propping up proceedings. The film is an amiable failure, a film better than the often tedious second instalment and its procession of periodic creeping around as company takeover bids and grizzly episodic death sequences bogged down what was the continuation of a storyline detailing the impending end of the world. It's one thing to make the sorts of horror and content omnipresent within these films not frightening, another thing to make it all quite dull, but the second one managed it. This second sequel sidesteps said flaws, but is mired by that real lack of horror and hopelessness in its atmosphere often found throughout Donner's original. It's creepier than the second, but goofier than the first; a film with a sharp eye for carnage and what The Devil himself in human form might both do and say in his wry grins and swanning around with all this power, just do not expect an experience as Earth shattering as the nihilistic one threatening to doom all on planet Earth in the film. Well, all those of a Christian or Jewish faith at least

Bezenby "It's not very action packed, is it?" said the wife. Yep – Welcome to another Omen film! This one tries to jazz things up by having Damien all growed up and in charge of a big corporation, looking to waste lots of babies as he's figured out that the Second Coming is happening in Britain. Add to that the bunch of priests who want to turn Damien into a satanic pin-cushion and you've got an action packed spectacular of epic proportions, right?No.After a nifty gunshot to the face, The Final Conflict, just like the film before it, settles in for a languid trip to ho-hum-ville. Sam Neill is fine as Damien, but the priest attacks are pretty lame, the sub-plot about the Second Coming is barely exciting, and the grand finale in a ruined abbey has hardly got a pulse. Only the appearance of a fifty foot Bee-Gee at the end is any good. There's a couple of good scenes: Damien rallying his acolytes for the big Herod-style massacre of the innocents, Damien apparently bumming his missus (he is the son of Satan after all!), and the aforementioned shotgun to the face bit, but there's an awful lot of nothing going on between all this. The Omen series must be one of the least interesting series out there. Final Conflict? Not much of a conflict at all, more like a 'slight scuffle'.

FilmFreak94 Damien Thorn is a full grown man and recently appointed Ambassador to Great Britain (the same position his father had years ago). And he is fully aware of his unholy destiny as the Antichrist, the false prophet. He has carefully been studying the signs for Jesus Christ's return to Earth and has decided the time is near. He sends his disciples all across Great Britain when an alignment of stars signifies his birth to kill any baby boy born on the morning of March 24, between the hours of midnight and six o'clock. Even one of Damien's closest assistants son is not exempt from this decree.But Damien's human side is getting the better of him as he starts seeing the popular journalist Kate Reynolds and they begin a relationship. He also forms an attachment to her son Peter, whom Damien takes under his wing and manipulates for his own evil.While this is going on the seven daggers of Megiddo have been rediscovered from the rubble of the old Thorn Museum which was burnt down in the last film. They are bought out of an auction and are sent to the Monastery that Damien's father visited when he was investigating the truth behind his son. Seven priests led by Father DeCarlo go to Britain and resolve to finish what Robert Thorn and his brother Richard started by killing Damien and reassuring the second coming of the Messiah. The plot for Omen 3 has a lot going for it but there's a lot of things that could've been done that weren't even touched upon. The relationship between Kate and Damien could've been an emotional struggle to the story, since it could allude that Damien might achieve redemption due to their relationship. Even one of his associates say that Reynolds is dangerous to be around but Damien is resolute in his path and not even 'love' can affect him. The priests are underdeveloped as well. Six are killed off rather quickly and DeCarlo isn't as strong a protagonist as Robert or Richard Thorn. The once brilliant supernatural death scenes that The Omen series is famous for are sort of replaced by intentional murders and accidents. Some are still impressive but they lose the sense of demonic intervention that the other two films had. Instead it is either Damien showing off his power, or one of his disciples that commits a murder. There's not a lot of speculation in them in that they all don't look like they could be common accidents. However, the film does have its fair share of disturbing scenes. There's a scene where a woman sees a vision of her baby burnt. She then takes an iron and approaches the baby and the rest is left to our imagination. Another scene involves Damien on a hunt with a group of Beagles. Two priests ambush him and while he kill one of them off himself, he tells the pack to kill the other and they proceed to tear him apart. The acting in the film is also quite good. Sam Neill as Damien provides a dark and rather frightening performance for the now adult Antichrist and he does an excellent job throughout the movie. The rest of the cast perform their roles well but there's nothing that really stands out in the ensemble. Jerry Goldsmith provides us with another excellent score that builds up suspense and makes it clear that evil is at work. For all three movies his score remains as one of the best in the Horror genre.Overall The Final Conflict has a lot of problems but the film isn't entirely bad. It's worth watching to bring a conclusion to The Omen series but will probably leave a few fans wanting a better ending.