A.C.’s Review: The End Times are nigh….at least in the new movie LEFT BEHIND. Without warning one day The Rapture from Heaven occurs and all children and adult true believers are swept away to heaven leaving only their clothing behind and a terrified world of the unbelievers and unfaithful that are in for seven years of tribulations and hell on earth as the Antichrist rises.
The movie however basically covers
the early hours of The Rapture as chaos descends on the ground and in the air
where Nick Cage is playing an
airplane pilot who must suddenly deal with the disappearance of many passengers
and a struggle to bring his plane back to JFK
after it is clipped by another jet (the pilots of the other jet were raptured away
and it was out of control-tough luck if you are a passenger on that plane).
Meanwhile on the ground his daughter must deal with a world gone mad by the
disappearances which include her devout mother (Lea Thompson from BACK TO THE
FUTURE! Man, it was good to see her again) and her younger brother.
On board the plane Cage is aided by a globetrotting
reporter who is his daughter’s love interest as well as a stewardess he is
having a torrid affair with (she doesn’t know he’s married). With JFK in shambles with no clear runways
due to crashed planes death seems certain for the passengers unless Cage can somehow find a way to land the
plane…with his daughters help.
This movie was a win win for me
because it combined two of my favorite genre’s. The airplane movie and the
disaster movie. There was no escaping this was a movie marketed to the
religious crowd but I went along with the flow just for the elements that I
liked. Some of it was good…and some silly….like the hot young stewardess having
an affair with aging Nick Cage but
all in all I liked it.
Due to its limited appeal it got
“Left Behind” at the box office on opening weekend so see it soon if you want
to as it will be raptured out of the theatre’s fairly quickly.
Best Scene: The near mid-air
collision between the jets.
A.C.'s Rating: Matinee
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