Rapture |
USA • 2014 • 85m •
   • Directed by: Richard Lowry. • Starring: Blair Besten, Jacqueline Buda, Dagmar Edwards, Janet Lopez, Kelly McInerney, Therese McLaughlin, Kailey Michael Portsmouth, DJ Rabiola, Blane Wheatley. • Music by: Robert Douglas.   It happens without warning. All electrical devices are abruptly shut down. Dark, unearthly clouds form over cities and towns from which lightning strikes and vaporizes its victims. Food and water are suddenly contaminated, causing a bacterial infection that kills within the hour. Ominous robed figures sweep the cities and landscapes, vaporizing everyone in sight. As the nightmarish events continue to unfold, the grim reality becomes clear that by day's end mankind will be extinct.
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Review:
Foiled again! This is the second time in a month I got pulled in by special effects for a disaster event movie moving into an apocalyptic nightmare. Curse my Saturday night love of dystopian landscapes. So I was about 23rds of the way invested when the tide turned and it all went christian in an effort to spur my very own come to Jehovah moment, in lieu of the absence of that age old hymn, "Just As I Am." The scene, taking the bible off the nightstand of the deathbed, did sound a few bells and whistles, but I chocked it up to dramatic schmaltz at the directors discretion. Up until the 23rds point I always thought a band of angels coming after me was a good thing. According to this movie, it ain't. It gives slain in the spirit a very smoldering meaning, and effect. SO, had I known before hand what exactly was waiting for me at the end of the rabbit hole, I would have given it a pass for something a little, WHAT AM I SAYING, a lot less bible belty.
Review by javabern-73307 from the Internet Movie Database.
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