Left Behind 2014

Critics score:
2 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Sara Stewart, New York Post: 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 ... Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: 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. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: 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. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: 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. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Left Behind" is a terrible movie, bad in almost every way, not even qualifying as so-bad-it's-good material. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more

Lindsey Bahr, Entertainment Weekly: At best, Left Behind is shoddily made sensationalist propaganda-with atrocious acting-that barely registers as entertainment. At worst, it's profoundly moronic. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: The Rapture won't come soon enough for the unfortunate souls forced to suffer through Left Behind. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: A shoo-in to clean up at the next Razzie Awards. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: 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. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: What has gone so horribly wrong in Cage's career that he is forced to accept any paycheck that comes his way? Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious. Read more

Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: It should have more smoldering panic bursting into full-blown freak-outs. It should have more passion, more intensity. It should have more bees. Read more

Michael Ordona, San Francisco Chronicle: With so much emphasis on proselytizing, there's little energy remaining for, you know, characters, plotting, dialogue ... pacing ... Read more

Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fans of the evangelical-Christian film genre ... should demand higher production values instead of blindly supporting a movie just because they appreciate its themes. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Score one for Satan. Read more

Brian Truitt, USA Today: Left Behind seriously could have used some divine intervention. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Left Behind is biblical in its silliness. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Left Behind" takes the end of the world and turns it not into a nightmare, but a nice long nap. Read more