…Left Behind seems entirely preoccupied with the mechanics of landing a jet aircraft on a motorway rather than any advanced theological questions...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 15, 2022

Cage is a practitioner of the Nouveau Shamanic school of acting but here he has dialled it down perhaps out of respect to the religious nature of the material, or perhaps he's saving the wild stuff for Con Air 2: This Time it's Biblical.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Rather than focusing primarily on the religious aspects, the film mishmashes multiple genres, desperately hoping for a wider appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 4, 2020

For a film concerning the beginning of the end of times, Left Behind sure is bereft of any kind of tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Sep 5, 2019

Left Behind is essentially a bad disaster movie, but I swear to God I've seen worse movies this year, and worse Nicolas Cage movies at that. I can't in good faith tell you to see it, but I'd be lying if I told you I didn't enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2018

The basic premise of the film could have made for an engaging and far-out watch. The very concept of the Rapture could have been depicted with power and mystery, but instead the opposite is achieved in a film that just looks slapdash.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2017

Overt Christian messages and Cage's omnipresence are not the only reasons why 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.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2017

This new film is a watered-down and somewhat changed version of the earlier movie with a bigger budget and not much else. There is barely enough undercooked scriptural theology to critique in the vacuous writing and painful acting.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2017

There's no drama. No suspense. No real stakes, even, because most of the movie takes place after the Rapture already happened.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2016

The effects are hilarious, the sets are rinky-dink, and the character names are funnier than a full season of 'Big Bang Theory,' and the "narrative arc" of our heroine is laughably predictable.

Full Review | May 30, 2016

The only prayers Left Behind inspires are for Nicolas Cage's career.

Full Review | May 12, 2015

Ostensibly an exploration of biblical themes, Left Behind avoids any theological debate to revel unsuccessfully in the mass-hysteria created by God's Rapture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2015

I never thought I'd write this, but Kirk Cameron's Left Behind, flawed as it is, looks and sounds better in almost every single way.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Jan 13, 2015

Outlandishly inept in every way, 'Left Behind' is easily one of the worst movies of 2014.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 9, 2014

My goodness, what on earth is Nicolas Cage doing in this movie?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2014

A very circumscribed, boring thriller that director Vic Armstrong hobbles with a very quiet, non-urgent tone throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 25, 2014

The first movie made from this material was all about the Anti-Christ taking over the UN. This one's about landing a plane.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2014

I am now relatively certain there is a Hell and it is a darkened theater with no doors showing Left Behind on a loop for eternity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/10 | Oct 17, 2014

Faith-driven audiences deserve better...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Oct 9, 2014

The movie unravels in its own destruction. Every effort to milk the tragedy of the apocalypse is met with terrible music, acting and effects that soak (and drown) the pathos in camp fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/10 | Oct 9, 2014