Well, I've decided to change pace a bit and post a review. Last Friday I watched Left Behind, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will see about posting a review for that and a study on a few points I feel like it illustrates nicely, but I think I will make this review while movie #2 is fresh in my mind.
First off: the average rating of this movie was 3.4 stars. This average was drawn from 456,652 people. That is saying something, however, I think mostly the problem was with the pacing and scripting of the beginning. For the first half hour, the movie felt like a racehorse that had tripped on its way out the gate - it was taking awkward steps. Some things were too slow, some things were too fast, and the script felt severely abridged. Some parts made me want to hit rewind and watch it over again in slow motion.
Second, the name "Tribulation Force" was a strange pick for the amount of information the movie contained about that subject. One person says "We need to make our own Tribulation Force" once, and...
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nothing happened! It leaves you thinking "What's a Tribulation Force?" "What does it do?" "Who came up with that name?" and, my first thought, "Where did that come from???"
It seems they decided to make this movie as though it was the same one as movie #1. They started in the middle. One commenter summed it up like this: "In general it feels like part 2 of a [3-part] made-for-tv movie."
Those were the technical problems. In terms of appropriateness, two teenagers get killed in a shooting, Chloe wears a dress displaying a disappointing amount of cleavage, two soldiers get burned to death, and a fireman is brought into the infirmary that has been badly burned. The shooting is not graphic, just images of the kids falling to the ground and lying there. The soldiers who get burned just kinda flap around and shout in slow motion and then collapse. The only graphic injury is the fireman, whose face is all red and gooey, and he is shaking in pain. The one scary thing is when Ray Steele, the pilot, shakes Nicolae Carpathia's hand, and he has a vision of who Nicolae really is - his eyes disappear and it looks like his face is melting. That freaked me out!
Other than those problems, I really liked this movie. The story isn't that great, and nothing really happens, but if you come to it not expecting much it is an enjoyable watch. The violence level is moderate, spiritual content is high, and the sensuality level was light. I would suggest it to about ages 10+, although my 10-year-old sister did not enjoy it.
Also, don't watch this movie unless you have seen the first one, and can get your hands on the next one.
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