When it comes to The Omen, it feels as though more entertainment is to be had, rather than horror, yet finds its own layer of terror that extends beyond religion.

| Apr 8, 2023

"The Omen" was ridiculous in 1976 and it’s ridiculous now.

| Original Score: D | Sep 20, 2022

Director John Moore is very respectful to the original, with almost a shot-for-shot re-creation in this version. While I'll admit the film is well made, it lacks the tension and sense of doom that made the original work.

| Original Score: C | Nov 19, 2019

The devil taking over the world is a terrifying concept, yet there's so little urgency to the proceedings that you'd think his master plan extended only to prank phone calls to the Vatican and TPing ministers' houses.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2019

A very loose and totally unnecessary film, that I hope will not make the new movie generations forget the original movie. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2019

In the world of the Antichrist, the original Omen reigns supreme.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The film doesn't leave you with bad dreams. It just makes you wonder: what's the point watching this remake when DVDs of the original are at hand?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 15, 2019

It's a highly entertaining comedy, and the best thing about it is - you don't have to watch any football.

| Feb 3, 2018

No gore, no death-defying screams and not too many scares either.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 5, 2018

Clunky retooling

| Aug 30, 2009

Certainly, it's not the worst remake of all time, but it really is one of the more ridiculous, unnecessary, and gimmicky of them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2009

While not a shot-for-shot copy of Richard Donner's far superior 1976 original "Omen," David Seltzer --the screenwriter of both films%u2014barely updates his original script for this gratuitous remake.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 23, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

... it's as if someone took a corpse, embalmed it to preserve the external appearance, slapped on a layer of fresh makeup, and then stuffed it full of animatronics to make it move and speak.

| Jul 4, 2008

If you thought Van Sant's "Psycho" reshoot was weird, check this out. It's a community theater version of that old classic "The Omen", filled with all your favorite scenes.

| Apr 19, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

will no doubt divide viewers into those who agree that it is high time that the original received so slick a makeover, and those who wonder whether there is much real point to a retooling of such devilish fidelity to its source.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Jun 15, 2007

John Moore's The Omen is not as frightening as Richard Donner's 1976 version--Moore resorts to scare tactics rather than impending horror.

| Mar 1, 2007

...the second half of the film, devoid of the cheap thrills and subliminal images that fill the first half, moves along smoothly...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 13, 2006