Jeff Durkin

This is a reasonably entertaining religious horror film. It deals with the immediate aftermath of a variation of the Rapture and subsequent Tribulations. It follows the Book of Revelations in a cursory way, taking it as a blueprint for a horror/disaster film. The movie falls apart near the end where it gets very preachy, while not addressing some of the more interesting issues (like what happens to the billions of people who have faith but are not part of whatever subset of Christians believes in this interpretation of the Christian God). I appreciated that the filmmakers leaned in to Christian myth, in the sense there is no other explanation for what is happening, but feel a lot of interesting questions and potential for drama was missed (why not have a devout Muslim hook up with our protagonists, to provide a counter-point or other world view to what is happening)? For a low budget film, it is fairly well shot and captures the feel of its "end of the world" story well. Performances vary, but are at worst adequate. Overall, if you like religiously themed horror, found footage films or disaster/end of the world movies, I would give it a watch. Just be warned that the message gets very simplistic and very preachy in the third act.

Slow and derivative with an impassive lead. Some decent effects sequences. Good sound design. Some of the supporting cast are fine in one-dimensional roles. Not abysmal - just another in a long line of Netflix product, films and series with no soul or passion, nothing original to say and not even an original voice for telling well-worn stories. Retelling the Seven Samurai in space was better realized in 1980 with Battle Beyond the Stars. This is not worth the expenditure of time and attention from the viewer and certainly not worth all the resources and efforts put into its production.

I wold call this a terrible movie, but that might imply acting, a story and plot, a screenplay, etc. This is really just a series of music videos - some R-Rated - with the actual plot presented in the last 5 minutes or so. The overall effect is first amusement - seeing just how incompetent the movie can be - giving way to boredom, when it becomes clear just how repetitious each montage is - and this is a film that is little more than montages. Avoid - unless you are having trouble sleeping.