The bad news is that the world is ending and all the evangelical Christians are being "raptured" even down to the homeless man who carries around "The End of the World is Near" sign...no wait, that is not the bad new, that is the good news. This is precisely why I found this movie to be hopeful. The only problem is how to get God to take away all the other radicalized, fundamentalists from the other Abraham theme religions too. I wondered, as I laughed my way through this film, what the producers would think of a propaganda film by The Islamic Nation or other radicalized Islamic group whose major point would be a big "I told you so, but you thought we were crazy" film plot.
Crazy is what this film is and it really is just a validation of some pretty outlandish ideas that were born out of millennial cults and other cults that splintered off the main religion centuries ago. I cannot blame Christians, Islamics or Jews for the nutters among them, nor will I discount the intelligence of a person who believes what others might consider myths, but the evangelical Christians and their kind are just a few cards less of a deck.
I also will not blame Cage for appearing in the film, after all like De Niro said when as asked why he did The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle...hey, this is what I do for a living. He does a very understated performance, which for him must have been difficult. He could have gone over-the-top, as he usually does, but he reigned back his emoting and puts in a fair performance even with some pretty corny dialogue. The direction is amateurish, the lighting is bleak. However, the CGI is pretty good and some pretty good cash was spent on the stunts.
Crazy is what this film is and it really is just a validation of some pretty outlandish ideas that were born out of millennial cults and other cults that splintered off the main religion centuries ago. I cannot blame Christians, Islamics or Jews for the nutters among them, nor will I discount the intelligence of a person who believes what others might consider myths, but the evangelical Christians and their kind are just a few cards less of a deck.
I also will not blame Cage for appearing in the film, after all like De Niro said when as asked why he did The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle...hey, this is what I do for a living. He does a very understated performance, which for him must have been difficult. He could have gone over-the-top, as he usually does, but he reigned back his emoting and puts in a fair performance even with some pretty corny dialogue. The direction is amateurish, the lighting is bleak. However, the CGI is pretty good and some pretty good cash was spent on the stunts.