Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Ugh, don't leave him behind with us, take Kirk Cameron with you!

Left Behind: The Movie (2000): Dir: Vic Sarin / Cast: Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Chelsea Noble, Janaya Stephens, Gordon Currie: Wonderful film referencing the Biblical accounts of Revelations where the rapture has happened and those remaining seek answers. Total chaos erupts but journalist Kirk Cameron figures that he knows where to go for answers. He seeks a disc from another source that can prove useful. A flight captain arrives home to only his daughter but he soon realizes where his wife and son have gone. He finds answers within the wondrous scriptures of the Bible. It is the second coming of Christ and Cameron believes that world leaders are already being deceived by the Anti-Christ. Director Vic Sarin does a marvelous job at creating tension with Cameron bringing both intelligence and desperation as he struggles to make sense of it all. Brad Johnson as the flight attendant now realizes his wife's faith was true. Also with Chelsea Noble and Janaya Stephens among those deceived and corrupted. Based on the popular book series the result is a low budget yet satisfying portrayal of end times that seems to reasonably surpass the fine line between poor production and decent low budget filmmaking. It provides suspense as well as interesting theories for discussion for those scholars on the subject. It is a definite Biblical masterpiece with relentless power. Score: 10 / 10

Left Behind is a Christian movie based on the novel of the same title by Reverend Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.This apocalyptic thriller stars Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Gordon Currie and Clarence Gilyard. This film directed by Vic Sarin is the first of the Left Behind trilogy that was followed by Left Behind II: Tribulation Force and Left Behind: World at War.Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose marriage is on the rocks after her wife has decided to spend most of her time in the church.This resulted in an affair with a fellow stewardess,Hattie.In their flight towards London,a number of their passengers disappear for no apparent reason and a number of chaotic events happen in the world.We also meet other characters along the way such as Buck Williams, a television journalist, is pondering the rash of sudden disappearances as he works on a report about Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli scientist who has devised a formula that would make any soil on earth easy to cultivate. Too bad that this movie resulted into becoming a poor one.Instead of trying to send the message of the coming apocalyptic events such as the end of the world,its poor writing and performances resulted into unintended ridiculous film-making due to poor writing,dialogues between characters and performances from the actors.Too bad that a Christian movie like this imparts messages that is far from what Jesus thought his follower and the Biblical scripture-based events that would happen as stated in the Book of Revelations turned out to become an unintended action thriller.A better remake was tried last year but it only resulted to worse film instead of a better film adaptation.

. . .of attempting to create a story of an apocalyptic scenario based on Biblical prophesy (not many movie makers go into that too much), the result is somewhat bland and one dimensional for different reasons. Anyone who has read the Book of Revelation (And I wouldn't advise it. It's very dark and depressing), it contains a vision of the world at it's very worst. It describes events as being a nightmare of war, pestilence, disease, human rights abuses, economic collapse, famine, natural and man-made catastrophe on a global scale--suffering that there is no escape for anyone from. It even speaks of people having to indulge in cannibalism to survive. While some of these kinds of events are taking place now and have happened in the past, the Book of Revelation speaks of a world where just about every aspect or system of society and civilization just breaks down all at once. It's a world no one could really imagine as they are events that have never occurred that way, all at once, in human history. There's no common frame of reference to compare it to. Sorry, I'm not trying to make everyone depressed or anything. It's just that this series of movies (and there are a couple other religious produced "end of world" type movies that have the same kinds of flaws as Left Behind) fails to touch the level of pain and despair that just about everyone would be experiencing in a real Biblical Apocalypse. Everyone in the movie just seems to be so much in control and pretty well behaved. They aren't confused, in despair or spiritually lost or suffering in a real, deep or profound way. They basically make the right decisions and pretty much remain on the right road. Their choices are between right and wrong where I feel that many choices in those circumstances would be between wrong and less wrong. It also doesn't depict the various ways in which society has fallen apart, the series of tragedies happening to people around the world, the riots, war, disease, etc. that would be happening. It doesn't depict the horror and terror. I suppose making a movie that could grasp the events in the Book of Revelation may just be an impossibility but there are alternative movies that may not be based on Biblical prophesy but are able to grasp the kind of pain people would be in much better. Movies like "The Road", "Blindess" or "Contagion" come closer. Even shows like "The Walking Dead" do a much better job at touching on how people truly behave and what their experience would be in a more real believable way. Left Behind also has it's own born-again Christian agenda which I don't mind too much but it gets heavy handed, arrogant, self-righteous and preachy in spots. I would never say to someone, 'Don't bother watching this movie.', just don't expect too much from it unless you are looking for a false sense of security.