A Major Disappointment

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I really thought at some point in the movie that it was a comedy Its such a bad movie that it became unintentionally funny. Was this movie directed by the pope and sponsored by the Vatican? The acting is awful, like a high-school drama classroom. And of course as usual in every american movie, there are guns, baseball bats, a muslim in a plane that passengers think is a terrorist. The errors in the movie are so obvious that it almost looks like they did it on propose. Its fun to watch just to make fun of how terrible it is.

I just saw the worst movie ever, that is what happened! Oh My God, oh no, I cannot say that after watching this movie or else I will not go to heaven. Stay away from this movie. Not sure what drugs Nicholas Cage used when he signed for this. Even Sharknado is better than this...

"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.

I signed up to review this.. im blown away by how bad this movie is. And dispite the onslaught of terrible acting from pretty much everyone, somehow Nic still shines like a beacon determined to out-terrible the crowd, although he does fall just short of his daughter who takes the crown of crapness. The writing is terrible, cinematography is stale as old bread, and i cant even talk about the writing without getting mad. This is the movie version of Rebecca Blacks "hit" Friday.