Left Behind (Reboot) Collection

Nicolas Cage

Chad Michael Murray

Lea Thompson

Nicky Whelan

Martin Klebba

Quinton Aaron

Jordin Sparks

Gary Grubbs

William Ragsdale

Stephanie Honoré

Lolo Jones

Cassi Thomson

Georgina Rawlings

Ashton Leigh

Alec Rayme

Major Dodson

Han Soto

Shanna Forrestall

Lance E. Nichols

Chelsea Bruland

Sabrina Gennarino

Candice Michele Barley

Judd Lormand

Kamryn Johnson

Choppy Guillotte

Hawn Tran

Heather Rene Hutson

Vic Armstrong

Ed Clydesdale

Paul Lalonde

John Patus

Michael Walker

Michael Baltazar

Adriane Bennett

Erin Foster

Russ Doyle

Jason Creal

Natalie Christine Johnson

Toby Holguin

Doug Schwartz

Danielle Tabary

Aquiles Montalvo

Jeremy Woolsey

Crystal Woodford

Donald Paul Pemrick

Barbara Haberecht

Jack N. Green

Matthew Gatlin

James Passanante

Dave Rhodes

Eliza Morse

Lisa Marie Dupree

David Neil Enfinger

Matthew T. Lynn

Dean E. Fronk

Jessica Stumpf

Scotty Morris

Gonzalo Gonzalez

Joseph Paolucci Jr.

Stephen Altman

Andrea Bowman

John W. Frost

Sean Findley

Jennifer Carriere

Teddy Smith

Michael J. Duthie

Sandra Algood

Lauri Mills

Jason Oertling

Gayle Anderson

Jonathan R. Hodges

David Keith Broome

Dawn Huertas Arevalo

Anthony Rivera Jr.

Charlie Wright

Jack Lenz

Joe Pancake

Ted Barba

Dorenda Moore

Tom Waite

Leigh Hennessy

Eric VanArsdale

Ashley Nicole Hudson

Stanton Barrett

Jay Caputo

Tim LaHaye

Ashleigh Dejon

Hunter Baxley

Jerry B. Jenkins

Nicole Chapman

Jeff Brockton

Lauren Claret

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Per Gunnar Jonsson

I have to confess that I bought this movie a bit on a whim and my purchase decision was mostly based on the fact that Nicolas Cage was in it. That was a mistake! I should have done a wee bit more research before wasting my money. I did not really have any hopes that it would be a great movie but I at least hoped that it would be a somewhat decent disaster / apocalypse movie. Sadly, it is nothing of the kind.

This time I have to side with the people trashing this movie, even the so called “critics” at Rotten Tomatoes. This is a bad movie. It could have been a half decent movie. The basic idea is perhaps not super original but it could have been made to work. However, it is simply loaded with religious bullshit. Once you filter out said bullshit, which is bloody difficult since you are more or less force fed it during most of the movie, there is really nothing left.

The behavior of people are bizarre to say the least. The dialogue is mostly nonsensical. The movies attempt at putting different and original characters, including an obnoxious dwarf, on the plane is feeble. The action and special effects are generally lousy and the attempts to put some thrill and drama into the landing of the plane is laughable. Come on, you see a plane coming, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it has no pilot and is flying in a straight line. You are over the Atlantic, a minor course change would have done the job and there was plenty of time. But nooo, the idiot script writer had Cage fly in a straight line like a chicken race until it was too late. And do not get me started on the stupidity of having someone driving down a stretch of highway in a pickup truck knocking over plastic cones to “clear it for landing”.

The only reason this movie gets any stars at all is because I do like Nicolas Cage even in a lousy movie like this.

**Do yourself a favor and watch the other one**

Easily the worst copycat of this story. The script holds more atheism than Bible and doesn't even attempt to discuss God in any meaningful way. Also, the characters - just about all of them - react unrealistically and wander about aimlessly in contrived "panic". Not a good film.

There are even very FEW Christians and Conservatives (with the exception of Ned Flanders) that actually enjoy Christian and Conservative movies... or at least Christian movies.

There are a lot of exceptions with Conservative films, Dirty Harry, Red Dawn, they can be fun.

But Christian Films... MAYBE The Passion of the Christ, The Bible miniseries, Mysteries of the Bible if that actually counts....

... Movies like this are the reason. Nicolas Cage was once a big star and oh the mighty fall, now he's in a remake of Left Behind that, honestly, I only watched to rip into, I walked into it with low expectations of Fx that wouldn't look cutting edge in the 70s, of acting that is both too earnest and too forced (and that is without Cage) to look naturalistic. Audio quality that...

... yeah, OK, shockingly the audio quality was a step above most Christian movies.

In other words, it stinks, you know it's going to stink because movies like this are more about the message than they are about the entertainment.

But... that was 2014 and, as Hollywood piles quota onto quota and demands that creators hit check marks that have nothing to do with the story, I suspect that it will change soon... my guess is that people that want to make entertaining films are going to gravitate towards this genre, towards low budget outside of Hollywood fare, towards whomever is offering up the money and is willing to allow them to make a film they want to make and not a political propaganda film.

It was made in 2014, and like all the other movies in this genre it sucks. But Hollywood is working on changing that and forcing talent out... and the people that funded Left Behind will jump at the chance of getting actual talent behind their projects.

Dean

I usually like Nicolas Cage movies. I'm a big fan of him, but this movie is one of those few movies that I didn't like. It's plain boring and story's stupid. Can't give it more than 4/10.

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