Left Behind

Its the Rapture, God has chosen to take all those favorite people and leave the rest of humanity to literally battle it out in a post apocalypse. Rayford is a airline pilot who has a weak marriage, affair with a stewardess and two kids at home. His daughter Chloe has just begun to fancy a guy she met at the airport and that guy is a famous reporter Buck Williams. So when literally thousands of people vanish after a flash of lights and a trumpet sound, its anyones guess what has just happened. Except those who have read the bible, which according to this film isnt any of the cast.

Firstly, what was Nicholas Cage thinking. Nic you are, for me at least one of the great film actors of your generation. You are literally killing your career with this film and it is sad to see. The same could be said for Chad and Lea. Both are capable actors and both are in this for some unknown reason. The film makes little sense, is poorly edited, the framing is dull and the cast are almost so bored as to want to give up. Then you have the subject matter that is....scary....

To explain this film it would be best to say the following to support my argument. Yes this was a New York Times book bestseller but this fails to highlight a major reason for this. I love the US and so will not tarnish it but it is no surprise that a right wing, evangelical Christian story of the rapture would be in the US best seller lists. Now the problem isn't with the novels, I havent read them just know of the film series being a B movie junky! Even those who bought the book, would find this film hard to swallow. You see for me it is often the lunatic fringes that take the majority view of the religious world. This film doesn't help any of the middle ground religious people, its message of incoherence and utter hog wash is so hard to see that it will make you wish the Rapture actually happened today, that minute.

I am a church going Catholic, every Sunday me and my wife attend our local church. That doesn't give me authority to judge anyone who is of same or another faith. Atheist or agnostic. This film is literally judging everyone. Like a scatter gun of sin locating, it is being fired at everyone. The scene with the Muslim airplane survivor or the midget person. It has scenes that are so offensive that they make Charlie Hebdo seem tame. Je Suis Charlie BTW. I prayed it would stop doing this and God knows I prayed hard. It didnt in fact it got worse. If you were anything outside of the 'normal' (what ever that means!) then you were for it... Guilty by association of living. I don't believe in a god like this. Billions do not either, I can assure you of that!