A stench of a movie

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2009)

Here's the bottom line. Though the same people who made this reactionary garbage would deny the rest of the world their own beliefs, we do still live in a country where everyone is entitled to their opinions. So they do have a right to spew this projectile vomit from the screen. However, sometimes I think there needs to be at least a warning label when scum movie making like this is jammed down our throats. At least if you go to see something as insidious as the "Left Behind" movies, you know what you're in for. They are made by fanatics who believe in the rapture, and actually can't wait for the end of the world, where only those who "believe" will get on their little spaceship and be transported to a world where Glen Beck and Bill O'Riley and reruns of Lawrence Welk play 24/7. But this propaganda of a movie purports to be a thriller. Maybe a little "Di Vinci Code", perhaps a dab of "The Omen" whatever what you don't expect is that this is yet another attempt to make people stop thinking, stop living, stop trying to "improve" the world with such "socialist" ideas as education, heath care, a clean environment, alternative fuels you know, things that will improve our life. In their minds, it's all going to end anyway, so just give all your money away to the con-men evangelicals, live in fear and wait for ET to phone home and take you away.
Oh, and if you don't believe in their fairy tale, then you will have to stay behind and burn. God (pun intended) forbid you believe in the satiety of living things, the glory of thought, the magnificence of science, and the freedom of forming your own ideas.
Why Nick Cage is in this is anyone's guess. Money, I assume. But you can see he's not happy. Throughout he has the pain expression of someone getting a colostomy without any medication. The movie is ugly to look at. It permeates with that smell you get in the summer, when some field rat has died under your bedroom window. It's dirty. Cluttered. Suffocating. Joyless. One has to wonder who said okay to this? Why would anyone want to pay money to see this? Seriously, I've had more enjoyment hosing out my garbage can after I found a decaying raccoon in it.
No one else of any note is in this embarrassment. The film tanked at the box office. And now, let's all hope that those that made it, will indeed be transported by some CGI spaceship and away from the rest of us. Can you imagine if this is true, and all these freaks really are taken away? And we were rid of them once and for all? As good 'ol Louie said: "What a wonderful world it would be".