The review tweet version: "Jerusalem Countdown" review: A movie about what happens to eschatology when it's based on half-truths mixed with xenophobia & bad acting.
The longer story: Being a guy who enjoys film a lot, I didn't have too many problems with the filmography. It's way better than any other Christian movies and comes quite close to non-creative mid-budget secular films.
The acting and script however were worse. Terrible.
But all of these things are barely noticed when compared to the hatred, stereotyping, and xenophobia against Arabs that this film not only shows, but pushes. The film seems to preach (never a good quality of any film) that if your neighbors are Arabs, they must be Muslim extremists who have guns and nukes in their basement and it is your job as a good American to break into their house to see if this is true.
Theology-wise, it's terrible, but I attribute that to the source material (Hagee's book).
I personally think that if the xenophobic dialogue/plots and the pre-tribulation rapture scenes were taken out, then it *might* of been a semi-decent film especially for being a "Christian" film.
The longer story: Being a guy who enjoys film a lot, I didn't have too many problems with the filmography. It's way better than any other Christian movies and comes quite close to non-creative mid-budget secular films.
The acting and script however were worse. Terrible.
But all of these things are barely noticed when compared to the hatred, stereotyping, and xenophobia against Arabs that this film not only shows, but pushes. The film seems to preach (never a good quality of any film) that if your neighbors are Arabs, they must be Muslim extremists who have guns and nukes in their basement and it is your job as a good American to break into their house to see if this is true.
Theology-wise, it's terrible, but I attribute that to the source material (Hagee's book).
I personally think that if the xenophobic dialogue/plots and the pre-tribulation rapture scenes were taken out, then it *might* of been a semi-decent film especially for being a "Christian" film.