Review of Left Behind (2014) by Dustin D — 29 Oct 2016

Left Behind gets one star because at least it was entertaining in unintentional ways, qualifying it as a good bad movie. Left Behind has the look and tone of a light comedy from the '90s, establishing its incompetency in the first scene.

The story is well-known by now--the Evangelical Protestant interpretation of the Rapture occurs, and the flawed humans "left behind" have to make sense of what happened. Among the people who didn't go to heaven are an adulterer, his atheist daughter and her atheist boyfriend, a greedy Texas businessman, and a Muslim, who comes off as a genuinely good person throughout the film, so we can only guess at the bigoted message.

Among those who go to heaven are Nicolas Cage's wife (Lea Thompson), who we know is a Christian because she does nothing but talk about God and the end of times, and always has a King James Bible (with the Catholic books taken out, of course) near at hand.

For some reason the glutton goes to heaven, so I'm not sure how some people got Raptured and some got left behind. Nicholas Cage looks high AF much of the time and sniffs like Donald Trump, so I wonder who held a gun to his head to make him do this movie.

This is almost as bad as the straight-to-video Kirk Cameron films, and just as funny. This Is the End is a much better treatment of the material.