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Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Damien is thirteen, on the precipice of maturity. It's time for him to put away childish things and look menacing in uniform.
The film exists solely because the first one made a profit. The plot is stretched to fit 107 minutes when in reality it could be told in just one paragraph. Damien’s awakening lacks drama. The diabolical intervention is predictable and boring. The deaths are comical. It fails to capture the uneasy feelings that the original had. Although, it makes a kind of sense that the Antichrist would be educated at an American military school.

2½ days of the Jackal out of 5

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