The Omega Code is a 1999 thriller film directed by Robert Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien as the protagonist, Dr. Gillen Lane, and Michael York as the antagonist. Its main plot presents an Evangelical Christian view about the millennium, and a plot by the Antichrist to take over the world. The film is based on a novel written by televangelist Paul Crouch, head of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which occasionally airs the movie on its cable television station. It spawned a prequel that disregarded the events in this film while telling the story of how the Antichrist rose to power. The... prequel, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, had a larger budget than the original but proved less popular. The movie begins in Jerusalem, where a rabbi named Rostenburg is typing a code from the Bible onto his laptop computer. An aiming laser is shown pointing at his chest, and he is shot and killed. The man who shot him is shown wearing a rabbi's outfit, and then leaving with the computer's disk containing the code. Following this, two mysterious men take a page out of Rostenburg's sweater and keep it.
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| Release date: | October 15, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Robert Marcarelli |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Music by: | Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport |
| Estimated budget: | $7,600,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Thriller, Action |