Left Behind: The Movie (2000)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I have seen this movie 5 times and get more out of it each time. I am addicted to the Left Behind series-I'll be honest. This film was generally based on Book 1 pretty well, unlike the 2014 reboot which only covered one section of the book to start the new franchise. This movie features a strong willed independent atheistic Chloe Steele, and that is how the book depicts her. However, the book says she is blonde haired, here the movie goofed up. Ray Steele is well played, and the Antichrist role was spot on from the books. The attack on Israel by Russia and her allies is pretty well depicted. However, some things are narrowed down to quicker lengths, and Buck did not know the charter pilot until later in the book. 6 out of 10 stars

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.

This comedy tries to have all the gravitas of the 1978 film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! to offset the insane premise the script offers up, but fails to deliver. This is due to the weak script, which both fails in dialog and plot, as well as acting that would put community theatre to shame.In a movie like this you need Shatner-esque levels of scenery chewing overacting in a lead, something that a washed up 1980s sitcom star cannot deliver.If the writing and acting isn't bad enough the cinematography and editing are amateur at best. Was this shot and edited by interns working for college credit and meals? It seems like it.All of that coupled with an absurdest script, which apparently is based on two best selling fiction books, makes this train wreck of a film not even worth the camp value for comedy.Apparently this is supposed to be some sort of cult film, but it seems more like a film produced by a cult.If you want to watch an absurd comedy watch the cult movie they were apparently trying to shoot for - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

You know how there are movies that are simply so bad that they become classics based purely upon the fact that they are bad. Well, this movie is not one of those movies. This movie is simply so bad that it will even fail to reach the cult status of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Mind you, the books in and of themselves were pretty shocking, but this movie takes it to a whole new level.While I have, in the past, found the whole pre-millenialism theology to be interesting, and for a while even believed it, I would like to think that I have grown out of that stage of my life and returned to the amillenialism traditions of my parents, and though while people are entitled to believe what they believe, I find this whole fear mongering over the identity of the anti-Christ and the conspiratory theories behind the creation of the European Union to be just a little overboard. Oh, and on that point, the fact that we are seeing a possible break up of the Euro-zone goes to show that these so called prophecies of the end times that were made in the nineties have turned out to be little more than bunk. Also, I found making the anti-Christ Eastern European was also a little disrespectful to, well, Eastern Europeans, but then I guess we could not have made him American, could have we.As for theology, well, even ignoring the rather pathetic conversions, we here no mention of Jesus in this film, nor of his saving act, nor his death or resurrection. In fact, it seems as if Jesus does not exist and that what this movie is actually promoting is the American Civil Religion of God and the Bible (though the civil religion does have Jesus in it). For a movie that is supposed to be heavily Christian, I am somewhat surprised that the original authors even allow this movie to be made.