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Omega Syndrome (1986)

Directed by Joseph Manduke

Action | Drama

Overview

An ex-GI’s daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.

Rated R | Length 90 minutes

Actors

Ken Wahl | George DiCenzo | Xander Berkeley | Nicole Eggert | Ron Kuhlman | Bill Morey | Doug McClure | Colm Meaney | Patti Tippo | Perla Walter | Janet Brady | Len Glascow | Spiro Razatos | Edward J. Ulrich | Dick Warlock | Doc Duhame | Thomas Rosales Jr. | Christopher Doyle | John Lisbon Wood | Al White | Bob Tzudiker

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Not a great movie as it’s poorly directed, but it does have Ken Wahl and the bad guys are entertaining. Doug McClure plays a pessimistic dumbass cop who’d rather profile Wahl’s character as a “liberal reporter” who can’t be trusted and is a sissy boy rather than actually try to figure out who kidnapped his teenage daughter.

This starts out with a straight up murder of a bi-racial couple to set the ugly tone. Sadly this movie is still topical since we continue to deal with white supremacists, just in the White House now. Anyway, the bad guys move on to assassinating a witness against their white supremacist club in a stupidly ridiculous attack on a police van. They “block” the road with a car on a tow truck, which then turns into a car bomb, which then turns into them using a rocket launcher to just blow up the van, all without actually checking to see if they killed their target. Why not just rocket the van at the beginning? Who knows! Who cares! Shit blows up and people catch on fire though!

Next they seem to be following Wahl’s character and end up kidnapping his daughter during a botched convenience store robbery. Since they eventually approach the girl’s rich Grandfather for “ransom” I guess the robbery was supposed to be staged and it was really a targeted kidnapping? I think? Still not entirely clear on that.

A pretty young Xander Berkeley is a great bad guy in this. He looks like a tweaker before meth existed and is suitably sleazy and hyped up all at the same time. A youngish Colm Meaney also makes an appearance as one of the white supremacists.

This is no THE SOLDIER but it does mark Wahl’s last movie role before diving into the iconic series THE WISEGUY on TV, which he’s probably best known for (outside of THE WANDERERS anyway). I always forget he’s a Chicago guy.

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