The Omega Code

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The Omega Code
Directed by	Robert Marcarelli
Starring	Casper Van Dien Michael York
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	100 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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The Omega Code is a 1999 film directed by Robert Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien as the protagonist, Dr. Gillen Lane, and Michael York as the antagonist, Stone Alexander. Its main story is an Evangelical Christian view about the millennium and the anti-Christ's plot to take over the world. The film is based on a novel written by televangelist Paul Crouch, head of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which produced the film and occasionally airs the movie on its' cable television station.

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The movie starts out in Jeruselem. A Jewish rabbi is typing a code from the bible onto his laptop computer. Suddenly, an aiming laser is pointed at his chest and he's shot and killed. The man who shot him is wearing a rabbi outfit and is taking the computer disk about the codes and leaves. Then two mysterious men take a page out of the dead rabbi's sweater and keep it. As the assassin is leaving, the two mysterious men keep getting in his way. He surrenders his gun and is allowed to leave.

On the back stage of a talk show, Dr. Gillian Lane (Casper Van Dien), an author and speaker, is getting ready to go one the show. He comes on and explains his book and explains how the Old Testament is a passage to our past, present, and future. After the show, he goes home and visits his ex-wife and daughter on her birthday.

On a peace ceremony in Rome, Stone Alexander (Michael York) is speaking for how he has fed the hungry in Africa with water and food wafers. Dr. Lane is there to visit and "enjoy some fine champagne and to support a worthy cause." It is revealed to the audience that the man who killed the rabbi in the beginning is Stone's apprentice (Michael Ironside). Dr. Lane meets with the host of the t.v. show he was one before and the two begin a partnership.