SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Michael Ledo This feature opens with a fire, hell, and damnation type of interpretation of Revelation and then drops the ball as the rest of the film has absolutely nothing to do with the Book of Revelation. This is rather a pop Christian version designed to sell a film to those who never read and studied the book.Josh (=Jesus) sells vests (=armor of God). He saves a family from a group of evil bikers known as either Outlaws or Barbarians. They have their own heavy metal swagger music, kill people, but never swear. Oh yes, they have something that looks like Thor's hammer. Eric Roberts has a small role in this film. Bruce Marchiano who always plays Jesus in these productions plays a stranger who saves a girl from said bikers. Please Scooby-Doo, tell me who this guy is?This is just the first part of what will surely be a butchered series designed to soak churches for the rights to showing this film. PLOT SPOILER...if there is such a thing...the rapture happens at the end of the film. While the rapture has statements to support it in the Bible, it really isn't part of Revelation. Technically this is a movie about the end times that doesn't follow Revelation in any shape or form, but simply uses it in the title to sell the feature. Dishonest if you ask me.Outside of that, the movie was poorly acted and the dialogue was jerky, like the sign reads, "Guns, Jerky, and More."Parental Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity. Fighting and some killing.

suite92 Josh drives through the desert to his next sales opportunity before he returns home. He is rear-ended by some hold-up artists. A gang, The Barbarians, drops by and inadvertently helps him get free. Josh continues to Frank's hardware store, where he tries to sell some body armour. Frank feels Josh out about his core values, as it were. A contingent of Barbarians bursts in and starts a strong arm robbery. Josh's skills kick in. He kills three of the Babarians, beats up some of the others, and sends the survivors packing.Hawg, the leader of the Barbarians, has a couple of his more cleaver members reconnoiter. They scope out Frank's home, and the motel where Josh is staying. Hawg makes plans to strike back against those who killed some of this crew.Hawg does indeed invade Frank's home. Frank and his wife fight back to some degree, but the gang disarms them. In parallel, Josh tries to help out a prostitute who has been beaten up by her, ah, employer. That does not go so well.All this gets interrupted by a long depiction of the Rapture, which is much better done than in The Mark. I did not say it was great, just better than in The Mark.The film sets up for part 2 after that.-----Scores------Cinematography: 10/10 Beautiful; skillfully done.Sound: 9/10 No particular problems.Acting: 7/10 Ray Wise was professional as always; David White was better than competent; Brian Bosworth was better than I expected him to be. Eric Roberts was fairly good in the small role as the Sheriff. I also liked Logan White as Cat.Screenplay: 5/10 The injection of Christian doctrine seems forced most of the time, but is much better done than The Mark, for instance. On the other hand, minus the doctrine, the film is short on story, and it is spread over 88 minutes.

ibjeepin I created an account just to respond to this movie. I use the work movie loosely.It starts off as a B movie and that's what I expected, then the Christian propaganda starts, slowly building to the climax hitting you like the bad guys hammer!This is a Christian propaganda movie! Period. Don't let the title and plot beguile you into watching it.Nothing subtle about the message here. Was OK until and tolerable until the climax..... don't bother wasting time unless you are a devout Christian. I truly wish the MPAA had a religious rating for this movie.

aiolus2 **********Spoilers************** I say presentation because the "movie" does not merit the name. I personally am an Atheist but LOVE both Constantine and The Book of Eli, they were movies not sermons.The movie was heavy handed and comes across as fake, poorly acted and with an agenda other than entertainment. As the movie develops you gain no feeling for the characters and develop no insight as to why you should care aside from a notion they are good.If people want to use religion in a film use it for what it is worth! A story line or twist! Not a doctrine for people to take up. I even liked Season of the Witch.Anyways, you may want to watch this for a good laugh.