Left Behind The Movie PG 13
The award winning Tim Lahaye book series comes to the screen in this millennium movie edition of the first book, with Kirk Cameron in it. According to the Rapture of the Millennium people, God will take millions of believers off earth in an instant, leaving planes empty and cars and everywhere also. Cameron plays Rayford Steele, (Steel? bletch) a pilot who finds his jetliner nearly empty after the Rapture, that is if you buy the premise that God would allow other planes and cars and boats to crash because they weren’t worthy. Even so, the premise is interesting but totally laughable here. You must believe in god or you will not like this movie! It's like, how is that supposed to convert anyone? the movie continues to hack through cheesy rhetoric and poorly constructed characters that in the book were much more fleshed out. It's like hitting everyone who doesn't believe over the head with a Bible for 90 minutes. Eventually it comes down to a pompous sermon by a preacher who lost his faith, and a gaping yawn from the audience. Sequels followed and they were worse. I was bored with the sermon even being a Christian. Then the Millennium happened and nobody got Raptured. Then 9/11 happened. The books unfortunately kept going. It's too bad they couldn't get a real director, writers and actors in this thing and a decent script. Review by Adam Browne
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