Omega Doom
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| Directed by | Albert Pyun |
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Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa (uncredited) |
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| Music by | Anthony Riparetti |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Omega Doom is a 1996 American science-fiction action film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Rutger Hauer. It was written by Pyun and Ed Naha. The story, set in a dystopian future, concerns a robot warrior who, during a nuclear winter, plays both sides of a robot civil war in a small town. The film is mostly based on Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa, and it was the third movie in Pyun's Cyborg Trilogy. It is considered a cult film.
And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked, they shall be one... with the man in the wind and the west moon. When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone... they shall have stars at elbow and feet. Though they go mad, they shall be sane. Though they sink through the sea, they shall rise again. Though lovers be lost, love shall not. And death shall have no dominion.
At the end of a World War between humans and robots, a nuclear bomb was detonated and a Dark Age begun, without technology or electricity. Soon later, the world has been cleared of humanity by the CDC, only the CDC's cyborgs and robots remain. On the last day of the war between the human and the robot army, one of the robots, Omega Doom, is shot in his head by a dying soldier and his programming for the destruction of mankind is erased. Some time later, Omega Doom arrives at a destroyed city, where he encounters an unusual community of robots and roms (newer and more advanced robots), who are in conflict.
He also finds there are two remaining peaceful robots - a former nanny who now works as a bartender and the head of a former teacher, whom the other robots use as a ball. Omega Doom helps The Head find a body and tells him about a rumored stock of hidden weapons. Both groups want these weapons in order to continue the destruction of the remaining humans.
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