Rapture-Palooza (2013)

Touches You

Pretty Good

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Long time IMDb user, have created an account just to rate this with a scarcely deserved 1 little, shineless star and to let everybody know how bad this movie is. PEOPLE, if you're bored and have nothing else to do and you consider watching this, DON'T ! You'll waste precious moments of your life, so DON'T ! (Incredible bad script, incredible bad acting, incredible bad fx, incredibly how this made to screen!!!) (Incredible bad script, incredible bad acting, incredible bad fx, incredibly how this made to screen!!!) (Incredible bad script, incredible bad acting, incredible bad fx, incredibly how this made to screen!!!)

This movie is supposed to be some sort of parody about the American Christian concept of rapture. The "serious" rapture movies are pretty dumb themselves, but this comedy takes the oddity and boredom to completely another level.This movie was recommended to me as a "extremely funny and provocative comedy mocking the concept of rapture". Well, it seems to try to mock and to make some fun, however absolutely unsuccessfully.Pathetic and extremely stupid "heroes" with zero chemistry, lots of dirty talks and almost no action... meh. Watch Dogma or Little Nicky instead.

Story: We start by following our heroes standing over a hot tub explaining how they saved the world, before flashing us back to the very beginning and how half the world just vanished taken to heaven. This leaves the non-believers stuck living through the plagues before we meet the Beast the Anti-Christ himself, taking over the world making everyone do what he wants. When our young couple are looking for a job they end up getting one working for The Beast where he takes a shine to our young heroine and wants to make her his wife. The couple have to come up with a plan to stop The Beast's plan.What tries too hard to be funny ends up being a pretty plain story that offers nothing original and most of the time it just ends up being awkward comedy. The source material of a rapture hadn't been used much but thanks to 'This Is The End' this comes off like a weak attempt at it. I was left very disappointed with this because with this which failed to offer anything to work with. (3/10)Actor ReviewCraig Robinson: The Beast the Anti-Christ who takes over the world after the rapture. He wants to make Lindsey his wife and will kill everyone she knows if she doesn't. Craig gives the type of performance you expect from him but he struggles with the lead role. (5/10)Anna Kendrick: Lindsey Lewis our heroine telling us the story of what happened in the typical teenage/young adult style. She also happens to know the only person rejected by the rapture and the only dead person to come back to life. Anna gives a solid performance but it is hard to believe she is the age she is playing. (5/10)John Francis Daley: Ben House boyfriend of Lindsey who along with her takes a very laidback comical look at the apocalypse. John does well with what little he has to work with but in the end get pushed aside by the stronger comedic actors. (5/10)Support Cast: The supporting cast mainly end up being the attempted comedy be it the stoner demons or the dead neighbour. In the end they all just take up screen time the leads needed to evolve their characters.Director Review: Paul Middleditch – Fails to create any laughs in this comedy along with a dull story and poorly created characters. (4/10)Comedy: I didn't laugh at all during the film. (1/10)Chemistry: The chemistry between Anna and John feels awkward from start to finish. (3/10)Settings: They don't offer anything to the story. (3/10) Special Effects: Poor CGI effects used through the film. (2/10)Suggestion: This is one to avoid. (Miss It)Best Part: The dead neighbour is the highlight.Worst Part: Poor Story.What Could Have Been Better? – Built the characters up more, make the characters ages more apparent, have better laughs. This list could be long.Lessons Learned: Craig Robinson is a supporting actor, Anna Kendrick can't be a teenager anymore.Believability: No (0/10)Chances of Tears: No (0/10)Chances of Sequel: NoPost Credits Scene: NoSimilar Too: DogmaOscar Chances: NoRuntime: 1 Hour 25 MinutesOverall: Not Good Enough, Poor Man's DogmaCheck out more reviews on http://moviesreview101.com/

I don't know if I'll ever be able to make it all the way through this. It looks like a direct and very unaffectionate mockery. But I noticed that if you look at it long enough, the very things that they are poking fun at begin to take on a creepy and somewhat unsettling connotation. Cursing crows, blood rain, falling fire rocks, zombie apocalypse, etc. Sadly, the movie is not clever enough to overcome its own stupidity, which is to basically look God in the face and stick your tongue out at him in total disrespect. This movie is on the line between poking fun at human arrogance and misplaced fanaticism and making fun of God himself. This is one of those movies you can't unsee once you look at it, and to tell you the truth, I almost wish to God I had never saw a second of it. But being a graduate student of theology, how can I resist? Tragically, parts of this disrespectful farce are almost funny.