I know that it’s very difficult to make an entertaining film, but with the amount of know how about these days it must take a lot of determination to make a film as lousy as The Omega Code.

Film production politics must come into it. There must have been an event during the production when someone took a peak at the proceedings, someone with some clout in the studio, someone who just knows from the look of a scene as it’s being filmed, or even just from a glance at the script, that this is going to be an abysmal bomb. But nothing is done!

The film had its own momentum. For a fiscally insane reason the show must go on and in The Omega Code’s case the push may well have from a Christian cable channel called the Trinity Broadcasting Network who had a hand in having the film produced.

But why would these people think that rubbish like this would help their cause. There’s a vaguely liturgical bent to the plot, but nothing sensible that I could see. But then I’m not privy to the inner workings of the United States Evangelical Christian movement. Thank God!

I would think though that they would have spent their money more fruitfully investing in having very old, tried and tested sword and sandal epics starring Charlton Heston being screened again and again, rather than investing in the new movies. Imagine a Directors Cut of Ben-Hur!!!! Ahhhg. (Surely it would be an hour shorter.)

The Omega Code has something to do with a computer program that can grab patches of the Bible and something called the Torah, in order to divine the future. There’s a megalomaniac rich beast (Michael York) who’s intent on blowing up and controlling the world with his nasty sidekick played by Michael Ironside.

They do battle with the forces of good who are represented by, would you believe it, a motivational speaker played by Starship Troopers escapee Casper Van Dien (who sometimes looks a lot like a buff Jim Carrey.)

Eventually I think the world blows up, as it should if film makers like these ended up running poor Ol’ Planet Earth, and the soap opera dialogue and action finally stops.

One Slimy Maggot drenched in sheep’s blood.