Watch Left Behind II: Tribulation Force For Free

Load of rubbish!!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

I'm a believer in God and that's why I can't understand how anyone who believes in the bible would appreciate the way the movie portrays God's message. What really bothered me is the fact that this so-called tribulation force keeps referring to the chosen ones as missing and keeps feeling sorry they're not around. I mean, if I'm converted and I believe in the word of God, why should I feel sorry because my loved ones were taken back to heaven? I should be happy about them and pray that I have the same fate. Not keep trying to find a reason as to why they're not here, given I already know why. If the intention of the movie was to say we have to believe in God and accept he has something greater for us, this movies fails. What it keeps doing is reminding us and giving the idea that serving God should be painful.

Left Behind II: Tribulation Force is a direct-to-video Christian apocalyptic/thriller and the second of the trilogy that was based on the Left Behind book series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.Kirk Cameron and Brad Johnson returns in a story that tells about how four people of faith must take it upon themselves to be responsible for the salvation of humanity.The story starts at the conclusion of the first film wherein millions of people around the world suddenly disappeared into thin air without any apparent reason.This placed the world into chaos.Nicolae Carpathia,the president of the United Nations and an international media magnate,steps forward to guide the different nations into this time of chaos.But television journalist Buck Williams know the real reason behind those disappearance as predicted from the Bible and he knows very well that Carpathia is an anti-Christ.It is up to Williams together with the three remaining believers - pastor and biblical scholar Bruce Barnes, airline pilot- turned-believer Rayford Steele and Steele's headstrong 20-year-old daughter, Chloe to save mankind.This is an improvement as compared to the first film in terms of the film's technical aspect such as the action scenes and the sound.Also,the story becomes more interesting in the sense that four believers try to stop the anti-Christ into leading the world into a direction different from a Christian perspective. But as a Christian film,it is still lacking as it is more of a science fiction and an action film rather than than of trying to impart a good Christian message.The conclusion can be considered Hollywood cliché rather than a believable Christian conversion.

I can appreciate that evangelical, rapture-focused Christians want their own entertainment, and that said entertainment probably won't have major-studio-level production resources to call upon. But this attempt to mix sermon and action-movie conventions panders so much to its audience--there are token minority characters, but the principals are thoroughly WASPy- -that genuine evangelical intent is hard to swallow. (Just check out the director's resume to see how deep his faith-based focus is.) Christians of other ethnicities, let alone nationalities, are pretty well ignored. The antichrist is a stereotypical evil Russian mogul, as in so many mainstream genre flicks of recent years. If Jesus is coming back, surely he won't be so exclusively concerned with middle-class U.S. whites. (This even extends to soldiers protecting the Wailing Wall under orders--our heroes' angelic protectors fry the poor guys via fireballs radiating from their eyes. So, God views them as sinners?) This movie (among others like it) preaches to the target audience by suggesting the people who will primarily be saved--and are most worthy of God's direct interventions in End Times--are those just like "us." Meaning just like the film's mostly Caucasian, mostly Heartland consumers. This earnest yet cheesy middle-chapter in the "Left Behind" saga ends on a wimpy note that practically requires follow-up. As indeed it got.

The quartet of believers from the first Left Behind film are back again as the Tribulation Force. This is the name that Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Janaya Stephens, and Clarence Gilyard have taken for themselves. Their mission is to frustrate the plans of the UN Secretary General, Carpathy who they see as the anti-Christ and to speed along the events spoken of in revelation.This film concerns the two witnesses who appear at the sight of Solomon's second temple, looking very much like ancient prophets of old. It is my understanding that they are normally identified as Enoch and Elijah who according to the Old Testament God took to heaven without either of them going through death.I don't think it's any accident that the Left Behind series bears a very intentional resemblance to the Star Wars Trilogy. It certainly is being marketed that way.Brad and Kirk with no little subterfuge take on the job of making sure the message of the two witnesses gets broadcast to the world as Revelations says it would. Of course they get a bit of help from Elijah and Enoch when the two of them do a Godzilla number on the troops commanded by Carpathy. As in the first Left Behind film, the best job is done by Gordon Currie as Carpathy.Will it in fact be a trilogy, the third film is already out and I've not seen it. As in the first film the view of any kind of internationalism is some how Satanic is if anything more prevalent here. Islam frowns on the photographing of the human image. Otherwise they might be competing with Christianity with a film that supports their view of an Apocalypse that ends with the triumph of that faith. I don't think financing would be a problem.