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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I don't mind a movie with a message, but when you push it too hard, the message becomes propaganda. This movie is a 90-minute ad for the Catholic church, and we all did start using ad-blockers at some point, right?

Wow, I am shocked. This Movie is amazing, It really is the best thing I have ever watched. Nicholas Cage gives an Oscar-Worthy Performance in this. Only the Academy decided No. No Nomination. This movie, the plot is so good. All Evil People finally get their punishment. Life. and the rest. Death. I know so good. Nicholas Cage plays Rayford Steele, A Pilot. Who does the worst thing ever. Flirts with another girl. That results in. ((SPOILERS)). Him getting left behind and navigating a plane in this dystopian world. There are also some other important characters, like this Pastor who doesn't believe in god and A Guy who talks about Area 51 developing. stuff. So good, all are so important to the plot. What did you expect Worse. THIS MOVIE, I have no words. Oh wait. GIVE THIS MOVIE A SEQUEL.P.S: Only Watch this movie if you like Christain Propaganda or a heavily drunk

Chloe (Cassi Thomson) is a smart college student coming home to see her family. Unfortunately dad (Nicolas Cage) is a pilot who has to work and has a hot date with a stewardess (Nicky Whelan). Dad and daughter meet at the airport and discuss how they must be supportive of mom (Lea Thompson) who is more far gone than stage four cancer...she has Jesus!Thirty minutes into the film and BAM! The rapture happens and it seems the people who really held this world together were not secular after all, but raptured Christians...except for cheating pilots, stews, EMTs, news casters, and midgets. Nice to know that after the rapture, the circus and Fox News will still be the same.After the rapture we are all concerned...will the father unite with her daughter? How will they cope knowing their two missing family members are in heaven...and HEY! We just had the rapture! Who cares about two characters we never got to like in the first place? Boring.The film lost its entertainment value after the rapture and maybe that is the real metaphor there.2 stars at best. No swearing, sex, or nudity. No actors were raptured during the making of this film.

"Left behind" has me struggling to find words to describe it. "Bad", "ghastly" or even stronger language all seem so inadequate.First of all, there is no Biblical basis for this "Rapture". Although Rapture fundamentalists claim that more than 20 verses in the Bible support the concept of "Rapture", examination of these verses (eg Romans 8: 18 - 19) shows they only use phrases such as the "eager expectation" of the second coming or, more unnervingly, refer to "multitudes in the dust who sleep will awake" (Daniel 12 v 1 - 2; see also Revelations 20, verses 4 and 5) which sounds like zombies rising from the grave (a scenario fortunately missing from this truly appalling movie). I am not sure which verse in the Bible is the basis for the rapturees' clothes remaining behind, although 1 Corinthians 15: 51 - 6=53 does refer to them being clothed with "the imperishable". There is a reference to "gathering" of the elect in Mark 13 but not even Revelations speaks about people vanishing as they are being lifted from the ground with their clothes behind them in the manner shown in this film.Second, the script and acting are terrible (I know Nicholas Cage has tax problems, but really..) and the special effects are laughable - the plane was a different make in each of its scenes, as one of the other reviewers has pointed out, the storms etc looked fake and the big city on fire at the end (spoiler alert!!) looked like a painting, and a bad one at that. Even the props are off, like the air hostess's crazy shoes, and what is wrong with Nicholas Cage's hair??? And nobody was on social media - how real is that.Third, the ethics and morals are questionable. The real missing people seem to be blacks - where are they all? There is a token Asian who is a nerd; does this mean that all Asians are going to hell? You can be a good religious person but if you are Moslem (like the guy on the plane), too bad. And the rapture only seems to happen to people who speak English. It is not even clear if this is happening outside America.There are intelligent, insightful films made about the Rapture. In fact, "The Rapture", starring Mimi Rogers and David Duchovny, is one of the most compelling and insightful films I have ever seen on any subject. The reason fundamentalists don't like this film is because it exposes the flaws in Rapture thinking, especially the extraordinary ending, which I won't reveal because I don't want to spoil it for others.I see "Left Behind" was nominated for awards - for the Razzies, that is. I am surprised it did not win. How could any other film in 2014 have been worse?In terms of general comparison with other "worst films ever made", this film has none of the low-budget problems producers like Ed Wood had, or the political stench of Nazi films like Jew Suss. What it is, however, is a propaganda film, rather like the propaganda ballets promoted like Qiang Qing which were used to destroy ballet and opera during the Cultural Revolution. Like all truly frightening propaganda, it is designed to terrify the audience into agreeing.On another topic, I have a complaint to make. Why does IMDb require all reviewers to put at least one star? To give even one star to a film of this kind is too generous.