Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Sorry, this movie sucks

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Josh drives through the desert to his next sales opportunity before he returns home. He is rear-ended by some hold-up artists. A gang, The Barbarians, drops by and inadvertently helps him get free. Josh continues to Frank's hardware store, where he tries to sell some body armour. Frank feels Josh out about his core values, as it were. A contingent of Barbarians bursts in and starts a strong arm robbery. Josh's skills kick in. He kills three of the Babarians, beats up some of the others, and sends the survivors packing.Hawg, the leader of the Barbarians, has a couple of his more cleaver members reconnoiter. They scope out Frank's home, and the motel where Josh is staying. Hawg makes plans to strike back against those who killed some of this crew.Hawg does indeed invade Frank's home. Frank and his wife fight back to some degree, but the gang disarms them. In parallel, Josh tries to help out a prostitute who has been beaten up by her, ah, employer. That does not go so well.All this gets interrupted by a long depiction of the Rapture, which is much better done than in The Mark. I did not say it was great, just better than in The Mark.The film sets up for part 2 after that.-----Scores------Cinematography: 10/10 Beautiful; skillfully done.Sound: 9/10 No particular problems.Acting: 7/10 Ray Wise was professional as always; David White was better than competent; Brian Bosworth was better than I expected him to be. Eric Roberts was fairly good in the small role as the Sheriff. I also liked Logan White as Cat.Screenplay: 5/10 The injection of Christian doctrine seems forced most of the time, but is much better done than The Mark, for instance. On the other hand, minus the doctrine, the film is short on story, and it is spread over 88 minutes.

Unwatchable! This movie is absolutely horrible. It was so bad, I couldn't get to the end. Normally, I wouldn't review a film unless I watched it all - no matter how insufferable. But this was just too painful. The acting was horrendous. Not a single person in the movie had any acting ability. There was no real plot. Unless you count the constant preaching, that is. It was nothing more than a preachy public service announcement with some stunts thrown in to convert the masses to Christianity. It was pure crap! And I can not believe there are sequels to this cesspool of crap-fest. I would have preferred going to church than watching another minute.

Hi all, I just saw the movie and read some critics about it...I decided to write a critic as well because this was one off the oddest movies ever seen by me. First of all I'm Christian, Greek Orthodox and I like movies with religious or metaphysical subject, or around revelation so the argument that I would hate a movie talking about Christianity is off-topic. To start with, the movie's prologue makes you think that you'll gonna see some revelation stuff in it but except the lightnings and the earthquakes the rest of the 1st one hour is a typical action movie with some kind of filthy and nasty motorcycle bikers roaming the countryside and making people suffer. The scenario pays that much attention in the rift between the main hero and the motorcycle gang that loses the religious aim of the movie. The boundaries among being a thriller or an action movie are difficult to recognise. Of course the crisis of the protagonist and the sermon of the good religious shop owner doesn't have any deep meaning. The crisis can be cured with different ways and suggesting the pray to God in every problem someone may face is just arbitrary. The only "revelation" you will gonna see in this movie is some lightning balls that symbolize the souls of good people whom God took in paradise. OK, I can create such a low-budget effect in my computer too, should I put it in a video and name it "revelation"? Last but not least, I got annoyed by the hints about other religions. The motel-owner is clearly a Buddhist as we can see from the statue that he has in his motel and as long as he's Indian or something like this. After that we see the "bad" motel-owner threatening some innocent scared people if they don't pay him. This was clearly a hint, a bad one, as long as it aims in a particular religion. But maybe other people would disagree with me, who knows, that's my personal opinion. No any real revelation, low budget effects, wonders if it was an action or a religious movie, no deep meanings in the dialogues so I put only 2 for the thrilling and the action and another 1 for the actors. Byebye :)

**********Spoilers************** I say presentation because the "movie" does not merit the name. I personally am an Atheist but LOVE both Constantine and The Book of Eli, they were movies not sermons.The movie was heavy handed and comes across as fake, poorly acted and with an agenda other than entertainment. As the movie develops you gain no feeling for the characters and develop no insight as to why you should care aside from a notion they are good.If people want to use religion in a film use it for what it is worth! A story line or twist! Not a doctrine for people to take up. I even liked Season of the Witch.Anyways, you may want to watch this for a good laugh.