Left Behind
Freestyle Releasing | Release Date: October 3, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
12
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Overwhelming dislike based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Negative:
24
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
The DissolveNathan RabinOct 2, 2014
The film’s appeal is largely dependent on Cage; Left Behind is a batshit-crazy Cage cult classic of a radically new stripe. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 2, 2014
The performances don't help matters any, with acting ranging from tolerably earnest to laughable. Cage keeps Left Behind from being a completely unholy mess. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 2, 2014
Everything about this film feels forced, clunky and overwrought. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOct 2, 2014
It’s inoffensive, unless you take umbrage at the idea that the only people who know not to steal are True Believers and all that keeps society from an instant meltdown are the Faithful. Read full review
35
TheWrapDiane GarrettOct 2, 2014
Has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and production values that verge on parody. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 2, 2014
The Rapture won’t come soon enough for the unfortunate souls forced to suffer through Left Behind. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireOct 3, 2014
Christian readers and audiences are the base here, but it’s hard to imagine that this incarnation of the story will persuade anyone else to find the Lord unless they’re sitting in the theater praying for the dialogue or special effects to improve. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallOct 2, 2014
There are cheesy pleasures found in Left Behind's ineptness. Read full review
25
New York PostSara StewartOct 2, 2014
It’s not great art (in fact, it’s pretty low-rent CGI), but it’s passably entertaining. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdonaOct 2, 2014
That lack of concern for the way people actually interact renders the film useless as entertainment, or as a conversion tool. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichOct 3, 2014
Good God almighty: Not since Edward D. Wood Jr. unleashed a flotilla of paper-plate UFOs on beautiful downtown Burbank has there been a movie as stem-to-stern inept as this adaptation of the bestselling Christian novel series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonOct 2, 2014
Perhaps Cage flipped a coin before Armstrong called “Action!” and decided to play this role straight. Alas, he has robbed the irony-attuned audiences of their only reason to go. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 2, 2014
The director, Vic Armstrong — whose lengthy résumé hews primarily toward stunt work — displays no facility with actors and even less with pacing. Read full review
20
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 2, 2014
Left Behind is a terrible movie, bad in almost every way, not even qualifying as so-bad-it's-good material. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 1, 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. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneOct 3, 2014
Left Behind is one of those films so deeply, fundamentally terrible that it feels unwittingly high-concept. Read full review
12
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 3, 2014
Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious. Read full review
12
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 2, 2014
The film is amateurish on almost every level. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 3, 2014
Left Behind is biblical in its silliness. Read full review
10
VarietyAndrew BarkerOct 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. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleWilliam GossOct 8, 2014
Religious dramas have a track record of prioritizing wholesome values at the cost of production values, and while Left Behind is mostly too preoccupied with being a hoary thriller to preach to the converted, it’s a thoroughly laughable attempt to marry bombast with sermonizing. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 2, 2014
Cheesy visual effects, flat shooting, slack directing and pacing, risible dialogue and characterization, lots of crummy acting, plus a painfully dull first act make this anything but a rapturous experience. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyLindsey BahrOct 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. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 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. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanOct 2, 2014
This failed epic — really, an epic failure — would barely be noticed, were it not for former Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage taking on a “Sharknado”-quality remake of a Kirk Cameron movie. Read full review
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