User reviews

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!

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.

This movie is not even worth even 1 single star! To bring it on point..

• Special Effects: Worse then anything I have ever seen! Even I as a simple After Effects User can do better ones.

• Story: It's so flat it even fits under a sheet of paper lying in dirt. Many leaks and errors in Scenes.

• Acting: It seems there wasn't enough money to make second or even a third shot of a scene. They just took everything.

-Sound: Very much not professional. Maybe there was no money for compressors to keep one level of sound.

-Dialogues: Very, very poor. And did I mention poor? I guess somebody straight from Highschool could write better ones.

• Film Quality: It almost seems they just got enough money to tape it on film instead recording it with beta cam. Probably this made the budget explode. Very weak cutting!

Under the line there is not much left. The religious MSG which it trys to transport dies in a hole of quality and weak dialogs. Nor action, cause every effort to provide such goes under in those laughs you have over the peak of the try to do special effects.

I'm sorry.. this is the weakest stuff I have probably ever seen. One and a half hours are just a pure waste of time! Spare it with your family or friends.. That's more spiritual than this movie can ever be!

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.

What can I possibly say in its defence.

Um. Well, the first 5 minutes almost showed promise.

I think that's about it.

Now that I've had a fair shot at being NICE about it.... I'll fill in the blanks. It sucks. Even my mother (of 70) who is a DEVOUT believer found this to be insulting, unwatchable, and a waste of time. She turned it off before the end.

Me, I'm not that way inclined, and I thought it was utter crap too.

So, two people from very opposite sides couldn't stand it.

Anyhow, other than that... continuity... effects... sound editing... a finite number of monkeys (perhaps 10) randomly using typewriters and sticky back plastic WOULD have done better.

Watch this film if you're gonna die tomorrow.. it will make you feel pleased at the prospect.

Well what can I say, this film is absolutely awful, I have never in my whole life seen such a pile of absolute rubbish as what this film is about Waste of time, money, story line is about as much use as a chocolate teapot, special effects are very lame and very loud, actors are all so wooden and speak so quietly, I really wouldn't bother to watch this film at all, it's not worth it, seems to me that they have tried to combine the likes of "Twister" "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" (all superb films) and came up with this. Oh deary deary me if you really want to watch this go ahead and watch it, see for yourself how bad some films are these days. Roll on the end credits, at least then the pain and agony of the film is over.

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.

If you didn't see this movie, you never know what is worst movie ever published to humanity. Maybe someday in the future, someone make worst movie than this one, but I don't think, that will be soon in history time-line. Everybody need to see this movie, so your judgment of movies you see in the future, will never be so hard.

I don't have words, for acting, scenario, directing, camera, and especially sound and music. Every word for this masterpiece is to good, too light, even those words I have in my mind right now, and those words are to heavy, so if I write here, probably Internet will crush.

This movie will never be worst movie in the IMDb, because it so stupid, so it can't win even in that contest.

I'm sad because on IMDb doesn't exist rate like -1. Damn -1 is too high, we need to make ratings -10 or less.

So people you must see this movie. When you see it, you will learn that you can take any camera, and make movie better than this, and who knows, maybe some of you become great movie maker one day. You should try, you can't make worst movie than this one!!!

I won't spoil your fun, to watch this movie, so I won't write anything from it, or try to compare with some other movie. There is no comparison between any movie, and this one. Nice thing in this movie is his end!!!

I was moved to tears and I believe I've found God again.

Perhaps the other reviews hate God. May He have mercy on their souls. Amen.

THE APOCALYPSE (theasylum.cc) Starring: Rhett Giles. This film is not the usual cup of herbal tea, My fiend ! Lose the beginning segment, That seems only added for violence as a afterthought. This is a great film,There we said it,It has character& special effects and a story. Most of the time there is a well thought out faith film and then there are amazing effects only seen in some of Hollywood's BEST science fiction.

The basic premise is – The world has begun it's end and We should touch base with loved ones and remind them we want to be together in a better place, See we can be subtle. Again this would be a welcome tool to most churches, Sans the dumb five minute little camp-misfire in beginning. So, Think of Left Behind and Armageddon with a dab of original success !

First of all, giving this film (if you can call it that) one star is being WAAAAAAYYYY generous. It was so bad, I don't even know if there's a low enough negative number to describe to you how bad it was.

Now, I'm a Christian, and I thought I could appreciate a movie like this. My husband warned me that it would probably be cheesy, which I expected, but this movie was so much worse than I expected, and I wasn't expecting much! Where do I begin? The sound alone was terrible-you couldn't even hear what the actors were saying for 90% of the movie, but you could hear the most obscure background noises as clear as a bell. There were HUGE continuity problems, the plot was pretty much nonexistent, the whole thing was just ridiculous. Of course, the acting was terrible on top of all of that, which actually seemed like a minor issue compared to the rest.

It was a complete and utter waste of time and $3.00. NEVER watch this movie. Unless you'd like to see the worst movie ever made-then it's good for that. But otherwise, don't watch it.

Seriously, what could the director have been thinking? Did they not even watch it after it was done, or did they actually think it was a good movie at completion? In one word: Wow.

Oh brother. This is a real stinker. I don't even have words to describe how bad it is. All right, let me break it down: Acting: Bad. Screenplay: Bad. Direction: Bad. Cinematography: Bad. Special Effects: Pathetic. Sound and Foley Work: Horrific. If I could give it less than a 1, I would. I've seen every bad "Christian" end times film there is, and most of them are stellar compared to this one. Even "Left Behind" (which I think I gave a very generous 3 or 4 our of 10 to) is a masterpiece compared to this drivel. Avoid this film at all cost. I know most reviewers here have given it a 1 or a very generous 2- trust them. DO NOT trust the guy who gave it a good review. He probably worked for the production.

The Apocalypse is a film made by Christian film company Faith Films (no profit to be gained in this field). My dad selected this film along with a few others for our Father-Son Christmas Movie Marathon. Although my dad exceeds me in many fields (particularly in those involving science and mathematics), I pride myself in the ability to pick a good movie. This movie, my friend, would not be my top choice.

I like to review my movie using a criteria that I have set up, here it goes: STORY: A meteor the size of Texas is about to hit Earth. Sound familiar? (the answer would be Armageddon). SOUND: The background noise provides a fog over the dialog delivered by the less-than-talented cast. CAST: Like I said before, less-than-talented. DIRECTOR: Let me put it this way just to be fair, he's no Steven Spielberg. PRODUCTION VALUES: Low budget, at best. 4 types of scenery: house, car, church (no surprise), and a park. Special effects involve flaming tennis balls being shot at a bunch of campers in the beginning of the movie.

The only way my dad and I found this movie slightly tolerable was through the magic of the fast-forward button found on our DVD player remote. If you are a Christian person who desires a Christian movie, please look elsewhere. This movie has no Christian in it at all (except for a miserably 10 minute long church scene). I live in a Mormon neighborhood, and I doubt that they watch this movie on Sunday morning sermons (at least I think Mormonism is a part of Christianity, I'm not a Christian). Dearest reader, I am now at my knees begging you to avoid this movie at all costs...PLEASE!

If you're looking for a movie to laugh your ass off non-stop, you've just found it...

Not joking, this is seriously hilarious material!

H I L A R I O U S . Go and buy it, rent it, whatever, it's a must-see.

You start laughing on the first minute and end on the last second. It's simply fantastic... They should make an sequel of this. I DEMAND a sequel of this.

I promise it will be worthy if you see this... You will not be disappointed.

If you like comedy, this is for you definitely!

I rest my case.

This could have and should have been good but it suffers from wooden acting and the worst special effects ever .... don't waste your time watching it

This movie is pretty bad but I have definitely seen worse and from more high profile director\actors too. In saying that, there is not much going for this - the acting is average to poor, the effects are at times OK and other times extremely poor, story line has been done before. The only point of difference in this plot is it tries to focus on the religious aspect of the disasters that are befalling the Earth and the faith of some of the characters, but it goes over the top in this area and fails in all other areas.

Don't watch this if you are looking for a traditional disaster movie because this is not one in the sense of following the disaster - rather the disaster is the means it uses to try to deliver it's message about faith.

Overall it gets 2 stars because I managed to watch it to the end and I have seen worse, three would have been too generous.

It is not often that you can say you participated in something that was the greatest of all time. If you want to watch the greatest worst movie of all time watch this. I never realized that I could actually see a movie that stood out above all the rest as being absolutely the worst movie ever made. But I feel like I have accomplished that. Like I'm part of an elite club now that has actually witnessed the worst dribble imaginable. If I'm ever asked again in a social setting, what is the worst movie I've ever watched, I'll be able to say with confidence I definitely know not only the worse movie by far that I have ever watched, but that anyone on the planet in all of history has watched. This is absolutely the worst movie of all time. If you want to belong to this elite club then I highly recommend you watch this movie!