Learning about his sinister nature and eventually discover that his adopted son is in fact the spawn of Satan or possibly Satan himself. Some sort of trinitarian thing, it doesn't matter.
Now in The Omen 2 the kid actually has a presence. He still something of a secondary character for our new protagonist William Holden but he definitely possesses more screen time and even becomes aware that he is the Devil Himself.
I said above that there was a protagonist and this oddly doesn't feel true. The Omen 2 feels like 20 different little stories all crammed together the trying weave this new narrative.
In a lot of ways it's a retread of the original film. All the original characters in the first movie are now dead and nobody is aware of Damien's true nature. And every time somebody comes close to learning about this nature they get killed in a amusing but kind of cheesy fashion.
The Omen 2 aims to be a bit bigger and more fanatic that its original counterpart and it wants to have more extreme death.
But in doing so it kind of opens itself up to being a bit more disconnected from reality and thus it just seems oddly comedic at points when it really shouldn't be.
The original film had this spooky suspense to everything especially in regards to this weird child and all these subtle demonic forces that were starting to intrude on everyone's life. Slowly destroying everyone around him until it was too late.
But in this movie things just start escalating immediately and the deaths are both entertaining but really predictable.
There's nothing scary about it. I don't actually think that's a problem as trying to continuously make more scary films after your original movie tends to not work out too well.
Look at all those slasher movies the first one might have genuine scary elements with the rest of them are always just a bunch of kill fests.
It seems kind of odd but you could remove the whole devil element from this movie and it's still would have worked out. It could have easily been a movie about corporate manipulation and the man trying to further himself in a company by sucking up to the bosses son.
While also being involved in suspicious business transactions and Company manipulation to get people fired or removed from their position ice to make this one guys part of the company more influential.
Overall it's okay. In a lot of ways it retells the story of the first movie but from a very different perspective and genre.
Which honestly I prefer over just trying to remake the first film again beat for Beat.
Could elements of this movie been improved? Of course.
But I feel like trying to improve on the movie would have ultimately pushed it into an entirely different project.
Which may have been interesting in its own right.
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