Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

Minus the Bible code hook that made the first Code vaguely interesting, Megiddo depicts the life and times of the Antichrist, Stone Alexander (Michael York), who, having apparently forgotten that he crowned himself king of the world only to be obliterated by God the last time around, once again strives to take over the planet by using a war on terrorism as a pretext for brainwashing the masses via TV (hmm...). Without Casper Van Dien's Tony Robbins-like character to stop him, or Michael Ironside to serve as bitter henchman, the movie gets bogged down in dull dialogue, despite some truly impressive special effects and a hilariously silly CG devil who closely resembles his counterpart from the PlayStation game Tekken 2. This time, we learn that Stone's brother is the vice president of the U.S. (Michael Biehn, in his worst performance ever), who must take control when the president (R. Lee Ermey!) is given a tumor by Satan. It's funny enough that televangelist's son Matthew Crouch is producing a movie in which the Antichrist learns from his father that people will believe anything that's on TV, but we also learn that Russia is still evil, the Chinese are hard-working and really want to be our friends, the Antichrist can make you vomit up orange paint and Mexico is a military superpower. Udo Kier shows up as Darth Maul, more or less, and the direction by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Leprechaun 4: In Space) is sub par: The final battle is tedious and confusingly shot. The word "Jesus" isn't uttered once.