There are good "So Bad It's Good" movies. And then there are "So bad, well, they're BAD" movies and THE FINAL CONFLICT belongs in the latter category. I saw this at the movies and what a disappointment it was. I was too young to have seen the other two OMEN flicks in theaters (but saw them on TV) and when FINAL CONFLICT was released, I was old enough to see it. Well, what a freaking letdown that was. Everything about it was bad: script, direction, acting, fx. You name it, it's bad. Only the ever reliable Jerry Goldsmith comes up with a good score for this dreck.
The thing that made me angry is that the movie doesn't even follow the plot points the two previous movies set-up years ago. Like the fact that Damien has to be killed with the six knives all at once. In FC, every knife is given to six monks, who try to kill Damien with their single individual knives. What? The story was supposed to take place in the near future and yet everything looked "late 70s/early 80s". And then there's the "alignment" scene, which is too stupid for words. Everyone in the audience laughed out loud during these scenes, certainly during the scenes when the (very stupid) monks tried to kill Damien and they died in goofy ways. All in all, one of the worst film experience I've ever had.
The thing that made me angry is that the movie doesn't even follow the plot points the two previous movies set-up years ago. Like the fact that Damien has to be killed with the six knives all at once. In FC, every knife is given to six monks, who try to kill Damien with their single individual knives. What? The story was supposed to take place in the near future and yet everything looked "late 70s/early 80s". And then there's the "alignment" scene, which is too stupid for words. Everyone in the audience laughed out loud during these scenes, certainly during the scenes when the (very stupid) monks tried to kill Damien and they died in goofy ways. All in all, one of the worst film experience I've ever had.