Left Behind Reviews

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Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
October 3, 2014
A shoo-in to clean up at the next Razzie Awards.
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
October 3, 2014
Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious.
Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4
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Christy Lemire
RogerEbert.com
October 3, 2014
It should have more smoldering panic bursting into full-blown freak-outs. It should have more passion, more intensity. It should have more bees.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine/Vulture
October 3, 2014
Left Behind is biblical in its silliness.
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Amy Nicholson
L.A. Weekly
October 2, 2014
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.
Full Review | Original Score: D
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Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
October 2, 2014
Score one for Satan.
Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4
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Sara Stewart
New York Post
October 2, 2014
Featuring local-cable production values and dialogue that seems written by a crack team of Sunday schoolers, director Vic Armstrong's "Left Behind" does no favors for the Christian proponents of its belief system ...
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
October 2, 2014
Forced to wait at least half an hour for the skeletal plot to kick in, we have plenty of time to notice the awkward dialogue and slapdash logic.
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Mark Jenkins
NPR
October 2, 2014
American Idol champ Jordin Sparks .. sings the end-credits ditty, "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." Viewers will wish that director Vic Armstrong and scripters Paul Lalonde and John Patus had been ready, too.
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Brian Truitt
USA Today
October 2, 2014
Left Behind seriously could have used some divine intervention.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
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Kristin Tillotson
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 2, 2014
Fans of the evangelical-Christian film genre ... should demand higher production values instead of blindly supporting a movie just because they appreciate its themes.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Lindsey Bahr
Entertainment Weekly
October 2, 2014
At best, Left Behind is shoddily made sensationalist propaganda-with atrocious acting-that barely registers as entertainment. At worst, it's profoundly moronic.
Full Review | Original Score: F
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Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
October 2, 2014
"Left Behind" is a terrible movie, bad in almost every way, not even qualifying as so-bad-it's-good material.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
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Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
October 2, 2014
The Rapture won't come soon enough for the unfortunate souls forced to suffer through Left Behind.
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Andrew Barker
Variety
October 2, 2014
With a Sharknado-inspired visual style and a deeply weary lead performance from Nicolas Cage, Left Behind is cheap-looking, overwrought kitsch of the most unintentionally hilarious order.
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Michael Ordoña
San Francisco Chronicle
October 2, 2014
With so much emphasis on proselytizing, there's little energy remaining for, you know, characters, plotting, dialogue ... pacing ...
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
October 2, 2014
"Left Behind" takes the end of the world and turns it not into a nightmare, but a nice long nap.
Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4
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Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
October 2, 2014
Cage is going for manly, if conflicted, family-guy confidence in this role, but somehow it comes off as nuttier than the events surrounding him.
Full Review | Original Score: 0/4
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A.A. Dowd
AV Club
October 2, 2014
This Left Behind may be worse than the last Left Behind, but it's much less boring, thanks in part to the commitment of its star, who plays the often ludicrous material with the straightest of faces. The Cage works in mysterious ways.
Full Review | Original Score: D-
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Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
October 1, 2014
What has gone so horribly wrong in Cage's career that he is forced to accept any paycheck that comes his way?
Full Review | Original Score: 0/5