in 1977 and the american scientist and colonel dr. robert neville ( charlton heston ) be the last man on earth . all the human race die or become mutant due to the use of biological weapon in a war . during the war and dr. neville be research an experimental vaccine and and in a flight to a hospital to use his late experiment and the pilot of his helicopter die and the helicopter crash . dr. neville use the vaccine on himself and it work and make him the last survivor of human race . the race of mutant self call the family and be lead by the fanatic matthias ( anthony zerbe ) in the middle age standard and without the use of any facility of the twentieth century . dr. neville find some other survivor and intend to use the anti corpus of his blood to prepare vaccine for them . the apocalyptic story have a tragic open end . yesterday i saw this movie maybe for the tenth time . in my opinion and it be one of the best apocalyptic sci fi movie of the 70 ( together with soylent green ) and when the world have the cold war to threaten and the population have a great fear of a biological weapon . in brazil and the omega man have not be release on vhs or dvd and and i have a vhs and record from the open brazilian tv in the 80 and dub in portuguese and with a terrible image and but what else can i do to see this movie if the distributor and the cable tv do not show interest to release it in my country . for person of other native language like me and i would like to explain the original title of the movie . in accordance with the heritage illustrate dictionary and omega be not only the 24th and final letter in the greek alphabet and but also mean the end and the last of anything . i hope that tom cruise do not spoil this magnificent story and since i heard he have the intention of prepare ( or spoil ) a remake . remake of good movie should be forbid . my vote be nine . today ( 06 september 2006 ) i have watch the omega man again and now in the original language . title ( brazil ) represent a última esperança da terra ( the last hope of the earth ) .