{"id":545280,"date":"2023-01-30T03:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T00:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-left-behind-rise-of-the-antichrist-review\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:19:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T00:19:35","slug":"watch-left-behind-rise-of-the-antichrist-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-left-behind-rise-of-the-antichrist-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41003c26596\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41003c26596\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-left-behind-rise-of-the-antichrist-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Left_Behind_Rise_of_the_Antichrist_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-left-behind-rise-of-the-antichrist-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Left_Behind_Rise_of_the_Antichrist_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Left_Behind_Rise_of_the_Antichrist_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Left_Behind_Rise_of_the_Antichrist_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If you see just one thriller this year in which a climactic car chase is followed by the director-star breaking character to deliver a five-minute sermon straight into the camera \u2014 followed by three more minutes of Mike Huckabee leading viewers in prayer to accept Jesus into their hearts, before the end credits roll \u2014 then make it \u201cLeft Behind: Rise of the Antichrist,\u201d the latest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of apocalyptic films based on the bestselling Christian book series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Although \u201cRise\u201d is the sixth feature derived from dozens of rapture-iffic novels and spinoff novellas published under the \u201cLeft Behind\u201d banner in the mid-\u201990s through mid-2000s, it\u2019s the first in the film series to have Kevin Sorbo as a leading man as well as director. Where past installments were relatively coy about their evangelistic purpose, Sorbo opts to add a literal come-to-Jesus epilogue. You may recall that the last actor to portray heroic pilot Rayford Steele was Nicolas Cage, in 2014\u2019s \u201cLeft Behind\u201d (a reboot to which the new film serves as a direct sequel). Cage did not end <em>his<\/em> turn in the franchise by breaking the fourth wall for an altar call, something the actor\u2019s fervent cult may now look at that as a missed opportunity. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Midway through \u201cRise of the Antichrist,\u201d Sorbo\u2019s Steele, a non-believer who\u2019s finally starting to see the light, consults with pastor Bruce Barnes (Charles Andrew Payne) about a biblical prophecy that is about to come true, in the version of \u201cpre-trib,\u201d premillennial theology that first grew in popularity among many Christians in the 20th century. On a whiteboard, the minister \u2014 who got left behind because he was, at the time, a phony believer \u2014 addresses a prophetic question that the filmmakers consider important: whether the clock on the seven-year Great Tribulation starts with the Rapture, or whether it really won\u2019t commence until a great temple is rebuilt on the Temple Dome in Jerusalem. Eschatalogically inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This exact schedule of the protracted apocalypse isn\u2019t really a major plot point, but it does get you thinking more about timelines, not just for the End Times but for film productions. Like: where in the heck are we in the chronology of \u201cLeft Behind\u201d movies? Kirk Cameron starred in the first three films, starting in 2000 and ending with 2005\u2019s \u201cLeft Behind: World at War,\u201d before producer\/co-writer Paul Lalonde, the only constant in all of the productions, started afresh with the 2014 remake of the original, starring Cage. (In between, there was a little-noticed 2016 spinoff, \u201cLeft Behind: Next Generation,\u201d based on the 40 \u201cLeft Behind: The Kids\u201d books.) The new sequel starts off six months after the events portrayed in the reboot, albeit with not a single cast member returning from the previous film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In this sequel, we\u2019re told the world is quickly going to hell, following the dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of all the world\u2019s true Christians, although there\u2019s not much filmic evidence of that beyond the sight of trash bags adrift in the streets on the rare occasions the Canadian shoot ventures outdoors. The chaos is established via CNN-style <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>casts conducted by the film\u2019s other leading man, chiseled, cocky TV anchor Cameron \u201cBuck\u201d Williams (Greg Perrow), who, having been established as the one principled newsman alive, starts looking into the nefarious forces trying to seduce and subject the United Nations and entire globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In real life, Sorbo is a polarizing enough personality that there could be a few non-evangelicals sneaking into showings for the purpose of a hate-watching. (The actor is so dedicated to right-wing trolling that, on release weekend, he made yet another sneering joke about the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi.) But anyone showing up in search of unintended laughs, because of his participation or because they have fond memories of snickering at no-budget Christ-sploitation movies like 1972\u2019s \u201cA Thief in the Night\u201d at church camp, may be disappointed to find that \u201cRise of the Antichrist\u201d rarely rises to pure camp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It sports attractive lensing, dialogue that occasionally has a little snap to it, and even some decent directing of a few of the performances \u2026 including Sorbo\u2019s own. That\u2019s especially true in one nicely low-key, church-set scene where the actor performs alongside his real-life wife (Sam Sorbo, very good), both playing characters who lost their spouses in the rapture. His screen presence here has a naturalistic sweetness that feels at surprising odds with the snarky meanness of Sorbo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> persona as God\u2019s Angry Man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Much of the film is spent implicitly or explicitly painting the government\u2019s and news media\u2019s pandemic-era policies or reporting as hoaxes, establishing public fear or gullibility that provided a nice setup for Satan to really do his thing in end-times to come. (In this universe, there\u2019s not even a Newsmax or an OAN left behind to question, let alone own, the libs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When the principal antagonist, in the form of Romanian big-wig Nicolae Carpathia (Bailey Chase), finally shows up for what amounts to only about 10 minutes of screen time, we know he\u2019s the Antichrist because a thrilled television reporter tells viewers he\u2019s getting the most enthusiastic greeting of anyone since Obama. (Boo, hiss.) Actually, Carpathia doesn\u2019t appear to have any of the charisma expected of a guy who\u2019s going to seduce the world; he resembles a much more hard-assed Ron DeSantis, crossed with a Bond villain. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    One of the most obvious problems with how thin \u201cRise of the Antichrist\u201d is on any kind of movie rapturousness is how it denies audiences from spending very many minutes with the guy in the title, or even secondary baddy Jonathan Stonogal (Neal McDonough, playing the leader of the world\u2019s biggest social network, in a production filmed well before such a figure became a major hero to conservatives).  The belief, probably, was that moviegoers\u2019 eternal souls will benefit more from hanging with its godlier characters. It\u2019s always easier to scare audiences with the sight of empty suits, after all, than to face the frightening prospect of coming up with a budget for the Battle of Armegeddon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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