This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I first watched this movie after seeing an amarican dad episode that I thought was parodying this movie. Boy was I wrong... The first 5 minutes almost leads you to believe that this is isn't going to be completely devoid of any action and some things will genuinely amuse you. After watching 45 minutes of this film I noticed that it was almost entirely composed of people sitting at home and doing nothing... literally nothing. I had enough of watching basically nothing and so I hit fast forward and being a VHS tape I could basically see everything that was going on. after countless scenes of people still sitting at home doing nothing and occasionally looking at bibles or going to church or doing other boring things, I finally got to something that was sort of interesting and started watching. I had almost entirely forgotten how bad the acting was. It seemed whenever they tried to make a scene dramatic or intense they would drag it on forever until it just kind of became boring and meaningless. before I knew it I was glancing anxiously at the fast forward button until I couldn't take it any more. Literally the moment I reached for it though, the credits started rolling and despite being completely unfulfilled by the story, I felt entirely satisfied that it was over. I don't want to keep this movie on the shelf anymore for fear that someone might think I have the kind of taste in movies that would make this film bearable... maybe masochist or something.

Intrepid journalist Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron) is on board a flight when several of the passengers just disappear, leaving their clothes behind. Looks like the Rapture is upon us and all true believers have been taken to Heaven, leaving the sinners behind with the Anti-Christ (Gordon Currie with a laughable accent).Obviously a movie that will alienate some based on its concept. I have no dog in the hunt one way or the other. Objectively, this is about the level of quality one would expect from a low-budget film that attempts to tackle the apocalypse. That is to say it fails more than it succeeds. The acting is limited and the direction inept. Do I even need to bother with the script? The only halfway decent acting is from Brad Johnson. The rest is strictly amateur hour.

I don't know why so many people thought this was a bad movie. Some of the "Christians" who have reviewed it seem to dislike the Christian imagery present in many of the scenes (but given the movie's subject, is anyone really surprised at how ubiquitous it is?), and such prominence may lead non-Christians to view the film in a light of detached skepticism, which diminishes any film's audience appeal. The characters' conversions to Christianity had the proper emotional impact, and while some might tire of basically hearing "God is the answer," to nearly every question the characters have post-rapture, you have to keep in mind that Christians really do believe that God can help you out of any problem.The movie is very true to the book. While leaving out minor details, it includes many of the prominent aspects of the book's apocalyptic nature, giving it an air of realism. I encourage anyone who wants to see the movie to read the series to find the whole story. So yes, you may have to come off your high horse of being "above" such a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible's apocalyptic prophecies to enjoy this movie. But in the end, your experience will depend on whether or not you are able to put any anti-Christian inhibitions behind you.

With the popularity of the Jenkins and LaHaye series, it was only a matter of time before they made a film series based on it. And "Left Behind" is just as narrow-minded as the series is.And what does "Left Behind" teach us? It teaches us that "a loving god" (or Jenkins' LaHaye's interpretation of God) selects only a handful of people who profess allegiance to one specific denomination of one specific religion to join him in paradise. Not only that, but at a specific point in time, he magically whisks them all away no matter what they're doing, also causing a number of accidents which undoubtedly whisk all of the "unsaved" people killed in said accidents straight to Hell. Warms the heart to a boil, doesn't it? Oh, but we're not finished yet. There's this guy named Nicolae Carpathia who begins his own rise to power against said "god." We're not supposed to know that he's the Antichrist yet, but come on... they may well have tattooed "666" on his forehead. The only thing that can stop him? Kirk "Crocoduck" Cameron.But the worst is yet to come. Not only is "Left Behind" a dark orgy of religious fanaticism, but it's outright plagiarism. Yes, that's right... it's plagiarism, and I'm not referring to the Bible. "Left Behind" plagiarizes Stephen King's "The Langoliers" so blatantly at the beginning that I'm surprised nobody else ever caught this. People disappearing suddenly on a plane, leaving behind clothes, belongings, surgical implants, etc.? You can't tell me that Jenkins and LaHaye just coincidentally thought of the very same thing. King should have sued them. So much for originality, huh guys?My critique is not against Christianity, nor against any religion in general. What it is against is a movie which uses fear and on screen violence to frighten people into converting to an extremely narrow-minded point of view, and isn't even done well in the first place. If you're someone who believes that every single word of the Bible - a book that has been translated and mistranslated throughout centuries and is filled with countless contradictions - to somehow still be 110% accurate, then this is probably the movie for you. If, on the other hand, you want an entertaining storyline about the rise of the Antichrist (and one that doesn't paint God as a genocidal monster), watch the "Omen" series instead. Don't give Jenkins or LaHaye the credit and money they don't deserve.