"Sharon" (Mimi Rogers) is a young woman who has a tedious job as a telephone operator during the day and to relieve her boredom she ventures out into Los Angeles at night with her male companion "Vic" (Patrick Bauchau) to enjoy the swinging scene together. Sometimes they go to certain nightclubs and other times to the airport to meet new couples who might enjoy a sexual tryst with them. Yet despite all of this she still feels terribly empty inside. Then one day she happens to overhear a group of Christians at her workplace talking about an identical vision each of them have had which convinces them that the world is about to come to an end. This arouses her curiosity and after a couple of other strange coincidences she decides to convert. And it's then that her whole world changes. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an interesting film which could have been much better if the director (Michael Tolkin) had bothered to research the topic regarding Christian eschatology instead of inventing his own ludicrous theology from scratch. But that's Hollywood I suppose. In any case, while it definitely could have been better, it was still an entertaining film for the most part and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
Review of The Rapture
