The basic premise of the film could have made for an engaging and far-out watch. The very concept of the Rapture could have been depicted with power and mystery, but instead the opposite is achieved in a film that just looks slapdash.

“GOD works in mysterious ways,” says Chloe (Thomson) right at the beginning of Left Behind. Indeed. Otherwise what explains this dud of a film based on, what some Christian circles call, ‘the Rapture’?

The miracle of Left Behind will touch your heart in such a way that you will get down on your knees and pray. You will pray to make it stop.

Left Behind is a film you need to leave behind.