'Left Behind' Review: Left Behind, the much-anticipated film, which is based on Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's evangelical novel about the Rapture

'Left Behind' Review: Left Behind, the much-anticipated film, which is based on Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's evangelical novel about the Rapture
Left Behind, the much-anticipated film, which is based on Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's evangelical novel about the Rapture. Left behind is about the beginning of the end of the world, is exactly what you think it is: a Christian movie starring Nicolas Cage, that the Academy Award-winning actor and star of National Treasure, Leaving Las Vegas, and The Croods is playing the lead role in a film with obvious motivations to evangelize becomes abundantly clear early on, and that fact is born again and again (and again) for the better part of two hours. Amid this cinematic feature about strangers who find themselves having to be with each other in the aftermath of an event in which millions disappear worldwide
Left Behind is a terrible movie. And yes, it's indeed terrible-god-awful, a less interesting, more convoluted version of the original Left Behind. Yes, this Vic Armstrong-directed "apocalyptic thriller" is Left Behind's second coming to the big screen. Those hoping that this Left Behind is a beefed-up, more sophisticatedly produced, and action-packed (perhaps better?) version of its original-a Cloud Ten production that released in 2000 and featured Kirk Cameron in the starring role-will be sorely disappointed.
While some of the special effects are a bit more grandiose than the outdated effects happening around Kirk Cameron's head in his Left Behind, other than the names of characters and a few recognizable-yet-tweaked storylines this remake pays little resemblance to its predecessor. Which is actually a shame, really, because the original Left Behind, though hardly a good movie, did at least include something of an actual story. Yes, it was terrible. But compared to 2014's Left Behind, it's an epic.
In this new Left Behind, the prophetic narrative first told in Jerry Jenkins' and Tim LaHaye's multimillion-selling novel, also called Left Behind, is all but missing. Though the screenplays for both the original and its reborn successor were written by the same duo, Paul LaLonde and John Patus, and both focus on what happens to a small group of people following the return of Jesus Christ, fans of the book and of the Dispensational theology on which its based will likely find little more than its mission to proselytize to celebrate in Armstrong's new tale. But the true apocalypse of this new Left Behind-what makes it far worse than that bad original.The movie Left behind has released on 3rd October.
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