There's almost nothing more entertaining than watching a bunch of film critics try to out-do each other as they explain how much they hate a bad movie. From mrqe.com, check out what critics are saying about Left Behind:
LA Times: Worst big-screen performance by an Academy Award winner (Nicholas Cage)
The Hollywood Reporter: The only thing missing is Helen Reddy as a singing nun; ... sub-par production values, howler-filled dialogue and terrible performances, [Left Behind] fails miserably on every level
Entertainment Weekly: profoundly moronic
AV Club: Faith-based clunker, groan-worthy comic relief, broad, cartoonish, and inept-ly made
In the examples above I'm mostly paraphrasing but the review at efilmcritic.com is so over-the-top fantastic that you should read it in its entirety; here's the best part, which I cut and pasted directly from the website: In essence, "Left Behind" is sort of like what might result if a pulp novelist along the lines of Clive Cussler was inexplicably hired to pen one of those cheap little evangelically-minded comic book pamphlets that earnestly insist that anyone who doesn't think exactly like the people behind them are going to hell in the most unpleasant and dramatically implausible manner imaginable. However, in jamming together a third-rate disaster movie narrative with the eschatological equivalent of "Nyah--told ya so," the end result is a film that cannot possibly begin to satisfy anyone looking for a little entertainment to go along with their proselytizing. The screenplay by Paul Lalonde and John Petus is so flat of foot and tin of ear throughout that when Rayford tells a deliberately terrible joke about a vulture trying to board an airplane, it far and away constitutes the best writing in the entire film
Finally, there's this, from Variety: "Sharknado-inspired visual style." Sharknado!!!
It's times like these when I really miss Roger Ebert. Don't you wish he was still around to tell us what he really thinks about Left Behind?
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