Left Behind (2000)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.6/10   

Director:

Vic Sarin

Escritores:

Alan B. McElroy (writer) and
Paul Lalonde (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

4 septiembre 2001 (Spain)

Género:

Drama | Fantasía | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

The Future Is Clear.

Plot:

Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant...

Plot Keywords:

Flight Attendant | Disappearance | Pilot | Religion | United Nations

Premios:

3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Well, from an atheist perspective, it's just a bad movie

Reparto

Kirk Cameron	...	Buck Williams
Brad Johnson	...	Rayford Steele
Janaya Stephens	...	Chloe Steele
Clarence Gilyard Jr.	...	Bruce Barnes (as Clarence Gilyard)
Colin Fox	...	Chaim Rosenzweig
Gordon Currie	...	Nicolae Carpathia
Chelsea Noble	...	Hattie Durham
Daniel Pilon	...	Jonathan Stonegal
Tony De Santis	...	Joshua Cothran
Jack Langedijk	...	Dirk Burton
Krista Bridges	...	Ivy Gold
Thomas Hauff	...	Steve Plank
Neil Crone	...	Ken Ritz
Sten Eirik	...	Flattop / Carl
Raven Dauda	...	Gloria

También conocida como:

Left Behind: The Movie (USA) (video title)
Dejado atrás: La película (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence.

Duración:

USA:96 min

País:

Canada

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Finland:K-11 | Singapore:PG | USA:PG-13 (appeal) | USA:R (orginal rating) | USA:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Cloud Ten Pictures

Trivialidades:

According to the "Making of..." documentary, Chelsea Noble (Hattie), who is married to Kirk Cameron (Buck), was reading the book in bed. Kirk was asleep, but Chelsea was so excited about the idea of turning this into a movie, she started slapping Kirk on the leg to wake him up, and said, "I want to play the role of Hattie!" Kirk and Chelsea then started farming out the idea to find out who might produce the film.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): When Bruce, Chloe, and Ray are trying to convert Buck Williams, Bruce Barnes quotes from the book of Daniel, but says "Daniel 9 chapter 27" There are only 12 chapters in the book of Daniel. Bruce Barnes should have said "Daniel 9 verse 27.

Citas:

Buck Williams: How do you describe both the beginning and an end? We should have known better, but we didn't. What does it matter if we think we know? In the end, there's no denying the truth.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Passion: Films, Faith & Fury (2006) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Midnight Cry

Well, from an atheist perspective, it's just a bad movie

I picked up Left Behind for no other reason than it was in the new release section (that's Australia for you), and it looked as if it might be worth watching.

In my opinion, I wasted my money. And considering that I used a free coupon to rent it, that's saying something.

However, I must point out that I'm not objecting to the Biblical content. Viewed simply as a fictional text, there's nothing wrong with the Bible; this is a fictional movie, so I don't have a problem per se with the content (although IMHO it makes it more fantasy than science fiction).

No, the problem with Left Behind is just that the movie totally fails to excite. The plot dawdles along at a painful pace for far too long, and even I figured out the Rapture part about ten minutes into it (I didn't initially believe that they would try and use that as the REAL explanation, but I wasn't exactly shocked when they did).

The story is not internally self consistent. We're told about a world wide hunger problem, but we're never shown this (all of the cast seem well fed, for example). We're expected to believe that the population of the planet buys the idea that some mysterious form of radiation has selectively wiped out millions of people in a wide spread area with no particular pattern (they wouldn't, especially considering that some of the world's top scientists are unlikely to have been "chosen"). Basically, given the situation at the START of the movie we should see a very different society - one on the edge of survival, with martial law and even open warfare (and we don't; America looks pretty much the same as it always does in Hollywood). AFTER the rapture, it should be even worse - and yes, we see a few signs that things are breaking down, but it's still largely business as usual.

Finally, the story doesn't have an ending. Apparently there's a sequel, but that doesn't excuse the lack of a finale in this movie. To all intents and purposes, they figure out what's going on and then ... it ends. No confrontation. No pay-off. Just the main character finally realising the truth of what the viewer noticed hours ago.

I've certainly seen worse movies, of course, but if you happen to see a copy of this on the store shelves, even at weekly prices... you would do best to simply let it remain Left Behind.