Such a frustrating disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I am not a big fan of religious movies, but Tribulation was an outstanding film. I watched it simply because of Howie Mandel. The acting in the film was excellent and overall I would give the movie a rating of four stars out of five. If anyone wants a good movie whether you are a Christian or not this is a film to see and enjoy. And the special effects in this film are well done. I was shocked at how good the movie was. I was expecting it to be a lousy low budget bad acting STUPID religious movie. It proved me wrong. Best of all it is a film that the whole family can watch together and not have to worry about the children seeing images and hearing vain talk throughout the movie. Now if it is a Christian family I would venture to say that it follows the Bible correctly and by all means show your children so that they can understand what the Bible talks about in Revalation. Again this is a film that I would highly recommend for anyone.

Detective Tom Canboro (Gary Busey) is a skeptical atheistic man, who is very close to his family. His sister Eileen (Matgot Kidder) and his wife Suzie (Sherry Miller) are Christians, his brother seems to be Christian and his brother-in-law Jason (Howie Mandel) is agnostic and quite crazy. One night, Tom is called to investigate two similar occurrences, both of them of domestic aggression and attempting to suicide, being one of them committed by Jason, who becomes totally insane. Tom realizes that something weird and unexplainable is happening, and he finds that the men of the leader Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso), who is indeed Lucifer, are threatening his family. Tom tries to go home to help his family, but a mysterious force controls his car and it crashes on a truck. Many years later, Tom awakes from his coma in a hospital and realizes that most of the worldwide population is now dominated by the Anti-Christ Franco Macalousso, who intends to destroy the Christians, and is marked with the number of the beast 666 on one hand. Tom tries to find what happened to his family and how to fight against Macalousso. "Tribulation" is a good movie about the Apocalypse. I noted in IMDb that it is the third part of a sequence of Christian films about the text of the Bible. The first one of this movies I saw was "Judgement", the fourth part of this series; now I have just watched the third part, which is much better than "Judgement". "Tribulation" is a good movie and the story can be understood without watching the first two parts. I liked the analogy made by Tom in the beginning of the movie, when he compares a person who speaks with aliens, with one who speaks with God. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Forças Diabólicas" ("Evil Forces")

Even though TRIBULATION features former name stars and a credible budget it is a disappointment and not up to the standard for "end times" stories which is now being set by LEFT BEHIND- THE MOVIE. Gary Busey , Margot Kidder, and Shery Miller do an average job in a poorly written and disjointed story. The plot becomes amateurish after Busey has an automobile accident and wakes up after the Rapture. Especially annoying is the acting of the Devil (Nick Mancuso) and his henchmen who lack any special powers and are unable to track down Busey and his cohorts. Howie Mandel overacts his way throughout the picture. The video will be of interest to Christians but will not find an audience in the secular world. Too bad!

I thought this movie was a huge step foward for Christian film makers. This is one you can actually watch with your non-christian friends and not be ashamed of. The film is not wishy washy and portrays evil and violence without overly downplaying the realities of what the last days will be like. Skip the Omega Code and see this instead!