The Apocalypse

Plot

In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.

Cast

I honestly knew nobody but can confidently and unoffensively say that many of the "Actors" should find different careers as their performances here were dreadful.

Verdict

Generally I'll always avoid faith films, like run a mile from the very concept of watching one but on the flipside I have a soft spot for The Asylum. Are they awful 95% of the time absolutely but.......wait where was I going with this?

The Apocalypse feels cheap even for an Asylum film, the cast are remarkably incompetent. The plot disguises itself as being a Deep Impact meteor-esque film when in reality it's all about faith/God/the Rapture etc where the believers are saved the atheists are presented as uneducated and foolish.

Visually ugly, acting dreadful, plot recycled and ridiculous and overall let's make no mistake this is a Christian movie dressed up as something else. It gets worse than this, but just barely.

Rants

Recently I saw a meme claiming that Atheists need to keep their Atheism to themselves and stop shoving it down everyone's throats.

Christian movies, Christian music, Christian tv stations, Christian award ceremonies, multiple buildings in every town dedicated to Christianity, Christians in the streets preaching, Christians knocking on your door preaching and lets not forget Christians walking around with the Christian logo around their necks.

But sure, people who don't believe are the ones who are oversaturating the world with their beliefs.

Breakdown

Awful acting Nonsensical plot Pure propaganda film.

The purest form of garbage boiled in cat pee & dog dung would be preferable to this grotesque mediocrity. Dead soulless characters mouthing an idiotic script based on the vapid vanity of some wacky cult/pseudo religion. To call this crap would embarrass real crap. The craven idiots that would bother to watch it deserve their self-styled lobotomies. Only a masochist or a drooling idiot would watch more than five minutes. The dog barking early in the film outside of frame was probably the only sensible attempt at reality. The only possible rapture would be that this film vanish from memory. The only possible heaven seems to be to boil the cult in oil for ever attempting this disgusting waste of film, time and resources. Only one word comes to mind regarding this film: abomination of culture, taste, religion of any sort. Given the choice of being targeted by a Texas size asteroid or watching this film: do yourself a favor: choose the asteroid! Travesty. abomination, grotesque, mediocre, evil, bad, putrid are totally inadequate to describe this execrable example of attempted social masturbation. Even bad porno has a point: this putative movie fails even in that. Should someone force you to watch this, grab a fork or sharp object and stab yourself in the leg ... if you are going to hurt so bad, do it to yourself: Oprah calls that empowerment. If there was a Satan that wanted to destroy souls and corrupt people: Satan would be proud of this film! The ludicrous attempt at dialogue, while hampered by foley and other ambient sounds truly wrenches their overly self-righteous preachiness from being heard: that maybe a good thing. Even Ed Wood had better technique and pride in his craft than these brain-dead excuses.

Amateurish acting (I'm being kind), very poor special effects, huge continuity howlers (e.g. it's "raining ash" one minute, not at all the next, and there's no ash on the ground), risible dialogue, awful and inappropriate music, massively poor sound design, bad physics... yep - this film's got the lot.

Armageddon was popcorn nonsense but enjoyable all the same. Deep Impact was nearly a great film but fell flat due to poor casting. This, though... well, it's just bad. It's a bad movie. It doesn't deserve any of your time.

As for the religious element well frankly in a film this bad it simply doesn't matter.

I watched this based on the review which appears as the main "User Review"... I really should have read the other two... I've wasted an hour and a half of life, which I'll never get back.

Being fair, there are pros and cons.

Pros:

-great opening 5mins to the movie

-nice initial special effects

Cons:

-awful sound; to the point where you can barely hear the dialogue due to the sounds of the SFX and music. almost like the actors had no mics near them!

-awful acting; whilst watching I thought it may have been some sort of fan-based movie or perhaps an amateur movie

-awful plot; similar to 'The Day After Tomorrow' with no rhythm, no clear continuity and no point really

-fairly poor special effects; considering the other flaw in the movie this is relatively not as bad but to be honest quite pointless and not very believable (apart from the first 5mins)

Please don't watch this movie, you'll regret it!

This movie is truly deserving of the 1 out of 10 rating

Despite appearing to have a possibly interesting storyline and plot and maybe the promise of some nice CGI, this movie totally disappointed and fell miles short of every preconception I had. Besides the terrible storyline, this movie was totally unwatchable. The acting was completely amateur to say the least and the script made me feel i was watching a child's school play (no offence kids), the conversations didn't flow like they would in a well written movies and it just generally lacked cohesion and depth, that wasn't completely lame. Overall this movie was appalling and just sitting though it was torture enough, I beg everyone else out there who is thinking of watching this, don't do it and if you have paid to see or hire this movie, demand your money back!