Left Behind (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Yea verily, like unto a plague of locusts, Left Behind hath begat a further scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cage's once-proud filmography.
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Cast
as Rayford Steele
as Buck Williams
as Chloe Steele
as Irene Steele
as Hattie Durham
as Shasta Carvell
as Melvin Weir
as Simon
as Neighbor Woman
as Chris Smith
as Passenger #2
as Kimmy (as Stephanie Honore)
as Lori
as Dennis
as Pastor Bruce Barnes
as Terrified Woman
as Luis - Passenger #1
as Screaming Mom
as Hassid
as Jim
as Raymie Steele
as Checkout Lady
as Edwin
as Young Mother
as Mom
as Guard
as Venice Baxter
as Katie
as Mom
as Another Passenger
as Airport Passenger
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Critic Reviews for Left Behind
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A shoo-in to clean up at the next Razzie Awards.
Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious.
It should have more smoldering panic bursting into full-blown freak-outs. It should have more passion, more intensity. It should have more bees.
Left Behind is biblical in its silliness.
It believes people might buy a ticket to Left Behind and not know the twist, like someone sitting down to watch Godzilla and being shocked by the entrance of a giant lizard.
Score one for Satan.
Audience Reviews for Left Behind
Nicholas Cage's acting seems to be deteriorating.
Super Reviewer
Rebooting the franchise, Left Behind delivers a more suspenseful and intense adaptation of Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins' apocalyptic thriller. When a mysterious event causes the disappearance of millions of people an airline pilot must maintain order and find a way to safely land in the chaotic aftermath. The script is fairly well-written and does a good job at keeping the film ground. It's also able to address religious issues in frank but unobtrusive ways. Additionally, Nicolas Cage and Cassi Thomson give strong performances that sell the confusion and panic of the situation. Still, the film has its weaknesses, particularly the score and the directing; which are rather bland. And, the characters could stand to be developed a little more. Still, Left Behind proves to be a solid foundation on which to build a new series.
Super Reviewer
"Left Behind" does not mark another terrible Nicholas Cage performance, but it is a new low for the actor's reel. He, along with the rest of the cast, seemed to not know they were in one of the worst pictures in years. Once people begin vanishing, mysteries ensue and they must find out what is happening. That portion of the film would have been simple and interesting, but it's religious undertone hammers you over the head throughout and you know the ending from a mile away, and that being said, there actually isn't even an ending. Being a film based on a series of 16 novels, there is not anything remotely intriguing about this film. "Left Behind" is a poorly written, horribly directed, and hilariously acted film, with an annoying score and a religious undertone that none of the filmmmakers must have realized was a bit too much. Overall, the only salvageable thing is actually the performance of Nicholas Cage and Chad Michael-Murray. One of the worst films I have viewed in a long time.
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Left Behind Quotes
| Rayford Steele: | Either I'm going crazy or the whole world is insane! |
| Hattie Durham: | Ray, I'm scared. Aren't you? |
| Rayford Steele: | I will be. As soon as I have time. |