“Left Behind” (2014) Podcast Movie Review

By Daniel Barnes on August 22, 2023

Dare Daniel: Cage Match – Round 3

Left Behind (2014; Dir.: Vic Armstrong) – Episode 126

“It’s just a bad trip!”

Daniel “Dan” “Buck” Barnes and Corky Carpathia continue their Cage Match series with a Rapture-ous review of Left Behind (2014). Cage has little to do but somehow manages to do less with it, as the great ones so often do. His real-life quest for the Holy Grail led him to this, a paycheck movie in praise of a vengeful God.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss rapture fakeouts, union-busting breakdancers and gasp counters.

LEFT BEHIND (2014) FACTS & FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: Oct. 3, 2014

Domestic box office: $27.4 million (production budget: $16 million)

Critics scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes; 12 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “A small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.”

This week’s referenced movies: Left Behind: The Movie (2000); Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; Indiana Jones franchise; Superman franchise; James Bond franchise; Battlefield: Earth; John Wick franchise; Vampire Academy; Sonny; Renfield; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; God’s Not Dead; Let There Be Light; Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist; Jaws: The Revenge; Transylmania; Gotti; The Wicker Man (2007); Ghost Rider; National Treasure: Book of Secrets; Next; Drive Angry; Season of the Witch; Trespass (2012); Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance; Seeking Justice; Snowden; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?; Birdman; Trainspotting; Viva Knievel!; Titanic (1997); Ship of Fools; Voyage of the Damned; Lifeboat; Die Hard; The Rapture