Left Behind

The film’s appeal is largely dependent on Cage; Left Behind is a batshit-crazy Cage cult classic of a radically new stripe.

Has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and production values that verge on parody.

It’s not great art (in fact, it’s pretty low-rent CGI), but it’s passably entertaining.

The director, Vic Armstrong — whose lengthy résumé hews primarily toward stunt work — displays no facility with actors and even less with pacing.

Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious.

Religious dramas have a track record of prioritizing wholesome values at the cost of production values, and while Left Behind is mostly too preoccupied with being a hoary thriller to preach to the converted, it’s a thoroughly laughable attempt to marry bombast with sermonizing.

This failed epic — really, an epic failure — would barely be noticed, were it not for former Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage taking on a “Sharknado”-quality remake of a Kirk Cameron movie.

Such movies are needed for this world. Very powerful film, instead to show just sex and violation, Hollywood has made great film based on Bible. People! Please believe in God and in that Day which is coming! Thank you all who played in this awesome movie. People! Please read the Bible and be prepare and ready, because we don't know when Jesus will take His Church. God bless America!

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Average. Having read reviews before watching this I had low expectations but it's not actually that bad. Yes the plot could be slightly better and the film does come across as "Budget" at times. The main character is a pilot played by Nicolas Cage and I thought he done well considering. (NO SPOILERS) The film is basically themed around the Rapture where loads of people just disappeared into thin air only leaving there belongings behind. No one knows why this has happened apart from a minority who are seen as mad or going mad. Most of the film is set on a plane where the crew and passengers are confused but have to deal with technical problems with the plane and they have to try and get back to an airport whilst they are over the Atlantic. This is basically a Mystery/Aviation film with a little bit of Action as well. (That's the way it came across to me) At times the film came across as a little bit narrow minded and didn't have as much action as I thought it would. I'm not sure if this was a budget movie but it did come across that way sometimes and I felt they could have made a bigger impact, for example there could have been scenes showing the global impact of people going missing just so you got more of a sense this was global rather than being concentrated on the plane all the time. Overall an OK film and not as bad as you think its going to be.

This is one of those guilty pleasure movies that you realize that everything within the film is bad, from the acting to the production to the script, but for some odd reason, there's that little fragment of your heart that kind of enjoys it. Kind of. But don't get me wrong, this movie ****.

A bad film but not nearly a failure as I expected. Not an offensive film in anyway but a terribly acted, poorly written and visuals that were shameful.