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If you imagine the film takes place during Thanos’ snap in Avengers: Infinity War, it’s a lot more entertaining. It wasn’t God, just an interdimensional being set on correcting humanity’s mistakes! (Hmm, sensing Marvel’s allegory here…) Jokes aside, the premise of the movie isn’t terrible, but evoking the supernatural terror of the rapture is beyond the scope and budget and talent of the film. The cinematography, effects, writing, direction, editing, score, casting are all bargain-basement quality. Why Cage signed on for this plane crash is a mystery, probably even to him.

Simply one of the worst movies in the history of cinema. People disappearing with lowest level special effects. That's all. A good movie If you want to fight against constipation.

I'm going to be a little generous by giving it a 7 instead of 6, but I want to encourage you to see it if you're considering it. My wife was skeptical, but we both enjoyed it and found it inspiring. As we're watching it, we both said, "this is NOT the bad movie the critics claimed it to be. Nick Cage did a great job, as did the other male lead (Lindsay Lohan's love interest from 'Freaky Friday"). The female lead was fine. Watching how things played out once the rapture took place was unsettling - as it should be. In the end, it made me a little more bold about the idea of sharing my faith.

Terrible Christian propaganda that should have been left in the mud. There is zero enjoyment value from this film. It`s also very boring and unfunny. Even Nicolas Cage looks bored and miserable. Worst film I`ve seen. Ever.

Left Behind is a textbook example of how to insult your audience. I'm a Christian, and I was absolutely repulsed by how it portrays Christians and Christianity. It's boring, lazy, and all of its religious arguments are empty at best and insulting to God at the worst. However, there are some really great so-bad-its-good moments, and the way the movie was made is at least halfway competent.

The only joy I got from this film was seeing someone slowly mugged. If this film was about being agnostic it'd still be a load of old toss.

This is quite possibly the worst film of Nicolas Cage's career, and we all know how many stinkers he's been in. The vast majority of the blame for that falls on Vic Armstrong. Not saying the man didn't have his work cut out for him due to a questionable script and low budget, but his terrible direction is what really kills the movie. Whether it's inspiring career worst performances from a cast of usually competent actors or awkwardly fumbling through scenes to the point of sometimes unintentional hilarity, Armstrong is just never able to make the story work for him. Everything feels so unnatural and forced. Trash cinema enthusiasts will likely get a kick out of the downright bizarre exchanges characters have with one another. Although the generic, made-for-TV drama style the movie is shot in makes it a total snoozefest even when the explosions and aircraft trouble take center stage. That's Armstrong's biggest failing. He simply couldn't make any of this even remotely interesting. That overly long 1h 51m running time drags by like a one-legged dog. Did I mention this is supposed to be faith-based? I almost forgot because the actual references to God are so few. In a self-defeating move the writers even failed at their attempt to scare people to the altar with an inept, "wait for the sequel" ending that leaves everything unresolved. So in the end this a movie that's more likely to have you sleeping through the rapture rather than dropping to your knees in repentance. Dear God, I'm so sorry they did you this way.

Say, doesn't this movie make Morgan Freeman... eh god.. out to be a ****? I mean, his lordliness removes people leaving the rest stuck in dangerous situations. I imagine an open heart surgeon suddenly whisked away while operating. Yeah, unlikely as he or she is probably an atheist or Korean: both not eligible. But you know..that kind of situation. In the movie a driverless car smashes into a shop and a small plane crashes into a mall. To hell with those left behind! Well, not hell.. unless they were actually all moved downstairs while the rest went to the attic. I tried to look it up, but the bible is a boring mess. A bit like this movie. I wonder what happens if you happen to be operated on and you are abducted. You'll arrive with your internals hanging out? Taken from the movie you'll probably arrive naked in heaven surrounded by mostly kids as kids get in for free. All these little naked kids. Most without parents: Where... where are mam and dad? They... are not here, Sweety... you see... They were not good Christians. Not like us! But... but I am not either... I am not a Christian either! Or I wasn't.. Yeah, we know.. but you are a kid. Now, be a good boy... I don't want to be a boy.. I want to be a girl! Shut up, or we send you back when you turn nine! I mean, doesn't that sound weird? Like icky weird? And if you missed out because you had your birthday today you'll curse the supreme one for the rest of your life.. or eternity.. whatever takes longer. Why today? Why not yesterday? Only a **** would do that! And have you even heard god say sorry? Of course not. Which also makes him a ****. But how do we know it is even god? Why not aliens? Or the devil. Or the Vogons? No, it must be god, so we are told.. Because of reasons. It is like they the probably conducts trials. Who did it? The black guy in the trench coat! What is your evidence? Well, it is what we believe. But the logical reason why it must be god is clear: only a **** can make a **** move like that. And god is a ****. So who else could it have been? And a worldwide panic sets in. It says a lot a how myopic the makers of this movie must be. Considering the percentage of the world populace that is eligible to go up it should be nothing much at all, unless god also feels obliged to take all the kids away from the entire world.. including babies. Filling the heavens with toddlers of all religions and convictions.. and none. And being a toddler for all eternity.. that must be fun! Are you sure this is heaven? The conclusion is inevitable: god must be a ****. I am surely overthinking this all, but I like to as it is so funny to imagine how this nonsense must work. Little thought has gone into this movie. Suspend you reason, because that is the way to watch movies. And how can you believe this nonsense anyway? The moment you start to ponder things it starts to unravel in a funny way and you can go either of two ways. Saying that this is so bizarre it must be nonsense or saying that this is so bizarre.. and then make a full stop right there. Let's face it. Down to earth this movie is mostly harmless. Mostly, for you run the danger of being bored to dumbness. It is fascinating really, how boring you can make a movie. It has a really cute female lead, but she is really boring. And Cage is in it. And even he is boring. Nothing really happens. But... but.. how about the plane: it is about to crash! Yes... and what is so exciting about that? Of all the plane crash movies it is by far the most boring. Most of the time this movie is people talking and pretending that they are undergoing emotions of some kind. Oh and people stating that it must be the rapture, with a grave mood. Desperate the female lead contemplates even suicide. God is a big **** but he likes kids. That is what the movie tells us. Well done there. You know what is funny? The people who made this movie and a sample of viewers probably think they will be raptured themselves. They can be sure that they won't. Would god reward people who take pleasure from the suffering of others? From those who are left behind? It is very likely he wouldn't. But then he might cause he is a **** after all as the movies tells us. You know what is double funny? God wouldn't be raptured either. Or do mass-murdering sadists get to heaven? (Despite my strenous effort to keep the formatting right Metacritic makes a jumble of the text by gluing paragraphs together. I have given up on getting it right. My apologies.)

Deutsche Review - Kritik Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln verstanden? Dann sind hier meine Punkte. Punkte: 39/100

An offense to cinema and intelligente. Nicolas Cage has not acted in a worse film than this!

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So, Left Behind assumes that if the rapture were to happen, everybody left behind would just automatically start turning into thieves and have no sense of humanity, elderly people who have a weak state of mind would ALSO be left behind, and even MUSLIMS get left behind??? You do know Christians, Muslims, and even Jews worship the same God, right?

Who MADE this awful movie? It's not even the BOOK!!! And it's terrible in everything that it is! I'm Christian and hate this movie so much.

Bad writing, bad acting, bad direction...very un-special effects. Worst film I have ever seen and a total insult to christians and non-christians. A BAD preachy movie...that should be erased from history.

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.

I generally don't like faith based movie. The only one i really enjoyed was evan almighty. Anyway this movie is pretty terrible. Everyone feels pretty wooden when they were acting and I ended up turning this movie off because it was so bad. Nicholas's cages only decent movie was the first national treasure movie. The whole idea of everyone disappearing because god is angry at them it just felt really silly and i don'think i will be watching this movie ever again

Nothing's in disguise in Left Behind: A sorry script, an awful direction, and a bland storytelling. At the end, this is nothing else but a never-should-have-existed picture that messes Cage's filmography.

Stilted acting, dull pacing, incredibly lazy script and jarringly ill-fitting soundtrack. Message of this film seems to be 'Every Christian in the world is a total **** they're also absolutely correct.'

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This is by far and away the worst film I have seen in many years. I can only think Mr Cage needed to pay the tax man a few dollars at this point and said 'yep, count me in'. The screen play was dreadful, the subject matter could have been handled in an epic way but for some reason nothing ended up making sense. I'm a non-believer but that hasn't swayed my judgement of this truly terrible film. The bible is a great story book, but this didn't work. in any way. honestly. its awful.

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It's bad. It's really, really bad. Bad enough that I registered with Metacritic to write a review so that I could perhaps save someone 110 minutes of his or her life. I think the actors did the best they could with the material they had. They were better than your standard Saturday-night Syfy movie overall anyway. The plot was terrible (worse than both the book and the original film in my opinion), the lighting was bad, and the pacing was, well, bad. The whole movie was, in a word, boring. In a way, it sort of had an identity crisis. I understood that with this reboot they wanted to reach beyond the mainline American Christian audience, so you could see elements of disaster or even sci-fi genres, but in the end, it could only pull off a quasi-Christian film feel, albeit it with more mainstream actors. There's so much else I could say, but the bottom line is that you could only like this movie if you're Jenkins' and LaHaye's biggest fans and/or have no critical expectations of films. A note to "bad movie" watchers: really, don't. Sometimes movies are so bad, they're good. This one isn't.

Absurd piece of junk about the rapture. Nicholas Cage nails down the title for worst movie actor ever with this one. Terrible...I can't believe that people actual produced this thinking we would believe it.

Just watch it and it was terrible.Nicolas Cage didn't do anything to redeem this horrible movie he is just there doing horrible acting the same as the other characters,It is said to be religious but as a Christian the film **** at it.Left Behind is the worst film I've ever watched.I wish I didn't buy an watch the DVD ****

This film was saved from having multiple razzie wins by the fact that Saving Christmas managed to pip it out of being the worst movie of the year. Christianity has some great stories to tell (this is coming from an atheist), but nowadays tit doesn't seem to be able to pull off movies. If only it could go back to the days of the 10 commandments, that is a fantastic Christian movie.

I'm giving this movie a review because I want people to know that my range of scores varies from 0 to 10. But this movie had nothing. Gaping plot holes, and a stupid script. Vic Armstrong was better off doing stunts.

Nicolas Cage why do you keep doing this? Your a good actor and when you're in the right role to show off you talent it works, but you keep picking crappy movie like this that hides your talent away and make you a joke to the auditions. Nicolas Cage was in this movie that came out early this year called Joe, and now you're in this peace of sh't. The story to Left Behind is about millions of people - those left behind must face a chaotic world where death and destruction reign. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the kind of movie that may be the worst movie, not just this year... I mean the worst movie of all time. The acting in this movie was freaking terrible even Nicolas Cage was pretty bad in this film and I hate saying that because as I said before he's a good actor when he picks the right roles, but movies like this hides the fact that he is a fantastic actor. The music in this movie was cheap, lazy and uninspiring. The writing in this is some of the worst writing I've seen since Titanic 2 and The last Airbender. The director of this movie (Vic Armstrong) He was a stuntman for all of his career, he was even in the Indiana Jones films doing most of the stunts in that movie and I respect the man for that, but as I director he really shouldn't direct because the directing in this movie is freaking garbage. I couldn't find anything good in this movie even Nicolas Cage couldn't save this movie or make it fun. This movie is not your ordinary fun bad movie, no this movie has nothing fun or anything good to say about it. It's just a movie that shouldn't be made into film or be release as a film. F'ck you Vic Armstrong and f'ck you John Patus and Paul Lalonde for writing this peace of living dog sh't.

As a christian I feel little guilt in my dislike of Left Behind. Its worse sin is that throughout the whole movie, you are constantly asking why people would be doing nonsensical things. Somehow this movie about people vanishing from the world and starring Nicolas Cage is boring. Like REALLY boring...

Scores speak for themselves, but I could not resist. This movie is a deplorable piece of garbage, Nicolas Cage has just one scene were he actually acts. It's awful, don't waste your time.

I was expecting a more faithful adaption to the book but Left Behind mostly stays true to its source material. Contrary to popular belief, the movie actually has great acting and decent special effects. I already know the fates of all these characters but the movie can be so intense, I actually was scared for them!

I made it through one of the worst movies I've ever seen. From the acting to the directing to the screenplay to the awful score this atrocious mess goes down in the history books. I know Nicholas Cage has no standards, but Lea Thompson come on seriously this makes her performance in Howard the Duck look oscar worthy. No matter what your religious beliefs are Left Behind should be left behind. F

Nicolas cage is the best actor on earth, always has been, and this film is no exception unless you have a political agenda that supersedes your 'movie rating honesty'. A thrill a minute, super fun and high level entertainment not far off the reliable entertainment level of anything Tom Cruise. Left Behind is the best of 2014 and anybody saying anything else, is simply not being honest and they know it. My family , all six grown kids, in-laws etc, agreed. We thought it was the best of the year at theatres. We'll see what 2015 holds !

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.

This movie does not warrant the awful grade the critics gave it. This is no masterpiece, but it certainly isn't an atrocious film either. It is a decently entertaining film that is better suited on TV.

This movie is religious garbage! maybe the movies director and producers should of prayed more to god, so he would give them a guiding light and make a decent movie! LOL

This film is an insult to religious people and cinema. Nicholas Cage manages to appear in another career crushing role with weak actors by his side. The film's plot made sense but the film dragged it on for too long, the character's were lifeless and the direction was tasteless, what a disaster.

I don't know about the book, but this movie is just one of the worst I have even seen at this genre type. Very bad script, actors were no better. Cage is going down... That is sad... A lot of waste of time.

It was great, I hope they have a 2nd & 3rd following! I was shocked with the very low ratings, when I watched it I realised there was no sexual content (so refreshing!).

O filme se passa logo após uma série de catástrofes, onde Chloe está visitando sua família, logo no aeroporto ela recebe a noticia que seu pai não vai estar em casa, ele tem um voo para fazer, ele é piloto, ela fica mais desapontada depois de descobrir que o motivo para ele ter aceitado fazer esse voo era pra ficar com uma das aeromoças. Quando chega em casa ela não diz nada a mãe. Bom, começando pelo enredo, é importante saber que o filme não retrata o que acontece no livro "apocalipse" da bíblia, e sim tem apenas como cenário os acontecimentos. A história é razoavelmente boa, porém um pouco mal contada, a relação entre os personagens é fraca, e a atuação mediana. Isso deve ser levado a sério, afinal Nicolas Cage é um dos atores, e é um dos únicos a ter uma boa atuação. Os efeitos, tanto visuais e sonoros são ultrapassados, o filme da uma impressão de ser antigo, principalmente pela qualidade de imagem, mas isso não chega a incomodar, logo nos primeiros 5 minutos de filme você se acostuma. A trilha sonora é simplesmente horrível, mas "quebra um galho" em alguma cenas. O filme poderia ser bom, mais muitos tropeços não permitiram isso, por começar o nome do filme, o filme não mostra realmente um apocalipse e sim um "pré-apocalipse", as imagens divulgadas não batem com o filme, isso da uma impressão de que fizeram o filme só pra lucrar. Enfim, pra você que não da atenção a efeitos ou trilha sonora o filme vai ser ótimo, porem para os mais atenciosos vão se decepcionar, no final de tudo, vale apena assistir ao filme, mas fica esse avisos citados acima.

What a load of c***. One of the most stupid, boring lame ass movies released this year. Nicolas Cage is a pretty good actor but that alone cannot save this movie from being s***. Story **** big time.

I love all of these people who say that "the film was made on a small budget" as if it's a good excuse for it to be crappy. This movie was made with a budget of $16 million! That may not be as large as some blockbusters, but it's a pretty big **** want to see low budget? Go watch an indie flick! There are tons of great indie feature out there, many made with a budget of less than $10,000! Go watch one, some of them are pretty good (and most are better than this piece of crap).

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!

Yet another Nicholas Cage action film that doesn't hit it hard. Very dramatic and boring, Left Behind is very bland, and is not what I had in mind when I read the description, misleading...

I just watched Left Behind and I have to say for those who actually read the 13 books, myself included this movie is laughable at best and down right aggravating at worse, I mean it really pissed me off to watch it. When I saw the trailers I was a little apprehensive in that Hollywood has a way of butchering some of the best books and making them into movie disasters but this one takes the cake. This book is suppose to be about the apocalypse. How did it get to be about Nicholas Cage piloting a plane and the peoples reactions and about Cassi Thompson saving the plane and just a little about the rapture. Firstly Cassi Thompson as Chloe Steele was grossly misrepresented and Nicholas Cage as Rayford Steele was laughable the state of shock he was in for the entire movie was hilarious. My advice for anyone watching this movie, read the books you'll enjoy them more. Movie was poorly made, poorly taught out, should have stuck to the book it would have made the movie Epic!. So disappointed, always wanted this book series to be made into a movie and then This Happens. Will not recommend this to anyone. SMH.

Without the dogged reverence for the source material - this might have been a decent "mid-air adventure" flick. Dull direction combined with the over-earnest acting (or in Cage's case, lackadaisical acting) doom this latest attempt to bring the phenomenon of popular Christian pop literature to the big screen. The next group of producers to attempt this tale should see the first 10 minutes of HBO's "The Leftovers" if for no other reason than to see the rapture done as the terrifying flustercuck it might actually be.

To critique this movie is quite difficult. If u are a Christian believer, then you will probably love it; and if you're not then you'll probably hate it. Its about the rapture, and it could very easily be Christian documentary. All in all, decent acting, a good script but all quite predictable in the end. The characters are interesting, and keeps you watching the movie, but after awhile, it just gets way too dull. There are some really god awful movies out there, so if you have nothing better to do, then watch this.

I really wanted to like this movie, both because I liked the concept and I like Cage, but everyone's acting (except for cage and very few others) in this movie is just really ****. And the writing of the movie and the corniness of the scenes is simply TOO MUCH. It's just so so SO cheesy and "old timey". To explain, one example of this is the music, if you take any stereotype Christian Group mood music you'll have the OST to thie movie, or another is the inclusion of a little kid who's part of the family who literally loses his **** when he gets "a brand new baseball glove! OH BOY!" no really, that's a direct quote... **** fashioned values wouldn't be in the crapper when it comes to pop culture if movies like this didn't **** as hard as the new Teenage Mutant ninja turtles movie lol...

This movie was made to pander to Christian fundamentalists that hope for the rapture. These people believe that they are in a private club of believers that will be let into heaven on judgement day. If this movie accurately reflects your idea of god, then you are a horrible person!