Left Behind

Nicky flies a commercial plane and everyone else on Earth disappears mid-flight, but not the people on the plane. Everybody on Earth evaporates simultaneously and it’s like it’s raining baby clothes from the skies.

In one scene everyone at the mall was all really stoked and blown away by a guy playing a drum solo. Nobody cares that much about a drum solo in public, not even for Neil Pert. For some reason this scene really upset me.

I think this movie is biblical? I pose that as a question only because everyone seems to get very Godly and I’m really not 100% on this theory, but I’m not gonna Google it.

When the daughter climbed up on the bridge and talked to Nicky on the phone and told him that mom and the son were gone, self reporting that I got a little choked up. And then when she climbed off the bridge and stole a cool motorcycle and hauled ass off through the city, I was quickly reminded what movie I was watching.

Then the best part of the movie happens and she blows up many inexplicably placed giant explosive containers to mark the runway for Nic to land the plane. The plane lands safely, against all odds, and they look at the beginning of the end of civilization? Again, I phrase that as a question because I do not know if I understood this movie or what was happening. She says “this is just the beginning” and everyone stares at the city skyline like they’re about to embark into the apocalypse.

Where the fuck are all the people? Did they go to heaven and everyone else got left behind presumably to live on a hell on earth scenario? If I’m even close to what I think I think, this is a movie about rapture, and Nicky was the pilot.

VERDICT: 👍 Would recommend

DIRECTOR: Vic Armstrong
YEAR: 2014
RATING: PG-13
RUN TIME: 1h 50min
FUN FACT: Nicolas Cage allegedly made this movie as a favor to his brother Marc Coppola who (shocker) is a priest.