| Omega Doom |
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| Directed by |
Albert Pyun |
| Produced by |
Jessica G. Budin
Tom Karnowski
Barr B. Potter
Paul Rosenblum
Gary Schmoeller
Mark Scoon |
| Written by |
Albert Pyun
Ed Naha |
| Starring |
Rutger Hauer
Shannon Whirry
Norbert Weisser
Tina Cote |
| Music by |
Anthony Riparetti |
| Distributed by |
Largo Entertainment, Filmwerks |
| Release date(s) |
1997 |
| Running time |
84 min. |
| Language |
English |
Omega Doom is a 1997 film by Albert Pyun, starring Rutger Hauer who plays a robot who, during a nuclear winter, plays both sides of a robot civil war against each other in a small town. The film's plot and setting are heavily influenced by the film Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa, itself believed to be an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest.
Plot
On the last day of the war between the human and the robot army, one of the robots, Omega Doom, is hit in his head and his memories and program for the destruction of mankind are erased.
Some time after that, Omega Doom arrives to one of the destroyed cities, where he encounters an unusual community of robots and roms (newer and more advanced form of robots), who are in conflict. Furthermore, there are also two peaceful robots - a former nurse which now works as a bartender and serves water in her bar and the head of a former teacher, whom the other robots use as a ball for entertainment.
Omega Doom helps The Head find a body and he tells him about the rumor of the hidden stock of weapons. Both groups want to find these weapons in order to use it for the destruction of the remaining humans, since the only weapons left are so called ˝laser chopping knives˝.
Eventually, Omega Doom promises the robots to destroy the roms in exchange for a half of the weapons stock; also, he proposes the roms the same deal, thus playing them against each other, thus ensuring their mutual destruction.
After that, he leaves the only peaceful robots (The Bartender and The Head) in the city and continues his wandering.
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