	LEFT BEHIND: THE MOVIE Year Of Release: 2000 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Chelsea Noble, Clarence Gilyard, Janaya Stephens, Colin Fox, Gordon Currie PLOT SUMMARY: Based on the first book of the LEFT BEHIND series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Television reporter Buck Williams (Cameron) and airline pilot Rayford Steele (Johnson) witness the disappearance of people on board a flight to England, and both of them, including Rayford's daughter Chloe (Stephens), search for the answers which Pastor Bruce Barnes (Gilyard) seems to know when his congregation has vanished on him. Meanwhile, Nicolae Carpathia (Currie) presses on with his diplomatic mission which involves the solution to the world's food shortage problem provided by noble scientist Chaim Rosenzweig (Fox). But Bruce Barnes suspects that Carpathia may end up fulfilling the role of the prophesied Antichrist who will initiate a seven-year treaty with Israel that will usher in the time of the Tribulation. PERSONAL COMMENT: Pretty good movie adaptation and casting overall, despite some things that had to be cut out or condensed to fit the running time. The only sad part is that it leaves you wanting more, as does its sequel movie.
	LEFT BEHIND II: TRIBULATION FORCE Year Of Release: 2002 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Chelsea Noble, Clarence Gilyard, Janaya Stephens, Gordon Currie, Lubomir Mykytiuk PLOT SUMMARY: Based on part of the second book of the LEFT BEHIND series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Television reporter Buck Williams (Cameron) and airline pilot Rayford Steele (Johnson), together with his daughter Chloe (Stephens) and Pastor Bruce Barnes (Gilyard), form the nucleus of a new group called the Tribulation Force as they enter the time of the Tribulation with the two witnesses of Revelation chapter 11 prophesying for 1260 days, the new Secretary-General of the United Nations Nicolae Carpathia (Currie) ready to sign the peace treaty with Israel, and theological scholar Tsion Ben-Judah (Mykytiuk) ready to reveal what he believes is the identity of the Messiah to the Jews. Both Buck and Rayford are called into positions that may get them close enough to the Antichrist to know what he's planning...but can they do so without either of them jeopardizing their faith or their commitment to the Tribulation Force? PERSONAL COMMENT: Same as LEFT BEHIND. Pretty good movie adaptation and casting overall, despite some things that had to be cut out or condensed to fit the running time. The only sad part is that it leaves you wanting more.
	LEFT BEHIND: WORLD AT WAR Year Of Release: 2005 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Cast: Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Chelsea Noble, Arnold Pinnock, Louis Gossett Jr., Janaya Stephens, Gordon Currie, Jessica Steen PLOT SUMMARY: Based on part of the second book of the LEFT BEHIND series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. United States President Gerald Fitzhugh (Gossett), a supporter of Nicolae Carpathia (Currie) and his newly emerging Global Community government, has now found himself the target of assassination attempts on his own life, supposedly at the hands of various militia groups. Television reporter and Tribulation Force member Buck Williams (Cameron) has been called upon by the President to uncover the growing mystery behind both the attacks on his life and the new world leader himself. But will the President believe the truth? And is he able to stop Carpathia even as the world heads for war with the opening of the Second Seal Judgment? PERSONAL COMMENT: Same as LEFT BEHIND. Pretty good movie adaptation and casting overall, with some interesting alterations to the second part of TRIBULATION FORCE and a plot twist that will have viewers wondering.
	APOCALYPSE Year Of Release: 1998 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Leigh Lewis, Richard Nester, Sam Bornstein, David Roddis PLOT SUMMARY: The first movie in the APOCALYPSE series by Peter and Paul LaLonde. World News Network co-anchors Helen Hannah (Lewis) and Bronson Pearl (Nester) bring live coverage of what may be the final war of the world as its armies all gather in Armageddon, Israel against each other. As the war worsens and nuclear weapons are launched, another puzzling element is thrown into the mix...people mysteriously vanishing right before their eyes, in addition to the nuclear weapons that were launched. European Union leader Franco Maccalusso (Bornstein) reveals himself as the man who is God, the long-awaited "true Messiah", who has removed not only the weapons of war, but also those he claims were the obstacles between the people of Earth and world peace. Helen discovers the truth from her grandmother's collection of tapes and teachings about the end-times...but can she get her co-anchor and lover to realize the truth before he is fully deceived by Maccalusso and his right-hand man Len Parker (Roddis), who's now in control of World News Network? PERSONAL COMMENT: Not a bad movie for a production that was released in Cloud Ten Pictures' early years as Prophecy Partners.
	REVELATION Year Of Release: 1999 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Leigh Lewis, Jeff Fahey, Carol Alt, Tony Nappo, Nick Mancuso, David Roddis PLOT SUMMARY: The second movie in the APOCALYPSE series by Peter and Paul LaLonde. One Nation Earth agent Thorold Stone (Fahey), who has witnessed his wife and daughter disappearing, investigates a mysterious school bus bombing blamed on the group called the Haters, a group of Christians who meet in secret places to share the faith of Jesus Christ while under persecution. The whole incident and subsequent arrest of one of the Haters' cells, however, is a cover for the real reason behind it all -- a mysterious computer disk that contains a virtual reality program called The Day Of Wonders has gotten into their hands, and it's up to Stone and a wheelchair-bound computer hacker named Willy Spino (Nappo) to uncover the truth behind the mysterious program. Meanwhile, former World News Network anchor Helen Hannah (Lewis) tries to share with Stone the truth behind his wife and daughter's disappearances, even though he doesn't believe in God, to help him make a choice of who he believes the Messiah is -- Franco Maccalusso (Mancuso) or Jesus Christ. PERSONAL COMMENT: Excellent sequel to APOCALYPSE, though it plays around somewhat with how and when events in the Book of Revelation will unfold, such as the "mark of the beast" and the "image of the beast".
	TRIBULATION Year Of Release: 2000 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Leigh Lewis, Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, Howie Mandel, Sherry Miller, Nick Mancuso, Joseph Ziegler PLOT SUMMARY: The third movie in the APOCALYPSE series by Peter and Paul LaLonde. Police detective Thomas Canboro (Busey) investigates a series of domestic disturbances that are linked to a mind-control cult group that follows the teachings of Franco Maccalusso (Mancuso) -- including his brother-in-law Jason Quincy (Mandel) falling out of a window and injuring himself. However, Tom's investigations lead to an uncontrollable car accident that leaves him unconscious -- until he wakes up and finds himself in a world where his sister Eileen (Kidder) has disappeared, his brother-in-law and his wife Susie (Miller) are also missing, his brother Calvin (Ziegler) doesn't even remember Eileen, and One Nation Earth agents are forcing people to enter The Day Of Wonders program to either take "the mark of the beast" or die. Realizing the danger that he's in and the truth behind what his sister was trying to tell him, Tom goes on a search for his wife and to become a believer in Jesus. PERSONAL COMMENT: Even better than APOCALYPSE and REVELATION. Highly recommended for its story and casting, though some things were changed between this movie and REVELATION.
	JUDGMENT Year Of Release: 2001 Company: Cloud Ten Pictures Cast: Leigh Lewis, Corbin Bernsen, Jessica Steen, Mr. T, Nick Mancuso PLOT SUMMARY: The fourth movie in the APOCALYPSE series by Peter and Paul LaLonde. Former World News Network anchor and Haters leader Helen Hannah (Lewis) is found alive and in custody of One Nation Earth awaiting to be put on trial for "crimes against humanity" in the World Court. Her defense attorney Mitch Kendrick (Bernsen), who is an unbeliever hiding behind a fake "mark of the beast" to protect himself, tries to reason with her into giving up her beliefs while she tries to reason with him to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, even as Mitch's former lover and adversary Victoria Thorne (Steen) tries to manipulate him by impugning his manhood. At the same time, J.T. Quincy (Mr. T) of the Haters group plans to infiltrate the building where Helen is held in custody and break her out before the verdict is even reached. PERSONAL COMMENT: My least favorite among the four movies in the APOCALYPSE series. Mr. T seems rather out of place here, and the story seems to drag on and on in the courtroom. Jessica Steen really knows how to play a very unlikeable character. Another thing is that this is the last of the APOCALYPSE movies ever produced.
	THE MOMENT AFTER Year Of Release: 1999 Company: TMA Productions Cast: Kevin Downes, David White, Brad Heller PLOT SUMMARY: Two FBI agents (Downes, White) are sent to investigate the mysterious disappearances of people going on even as the world prepares to receive the "mark of the beast", with the President of the United States being among the first. Meanwhile, a Jewish rabbi (Heller) has his eyes opened to the truth of Scripture related to what's happening and forms a group of believers that the FBI thinks is a para-military group, but may just help one of the FBI agents discover the truth for himself. PERSONAL COMMENT: Not a bad movie, though it seems like it's yet in another of those kind of movies that introduces something but doesn't allow further development beyond that point. The movie's eschatological view of Revelation seems to paint the picture of the Beast from the Sea in chapter 13 as more of a world system than a person who's in charge of it, from what its version of the "mark of the beast" implies.
	MEGIDDO: OMEGA CODE 2 Year Of Release: 2001 Company: 8X Entertainment Cast: Michael York, Michael Biehn, Diane Verona, R. Lee Ermey, Udo Kier PLOT SUMMARY: The second movie in the OMEGA CODE series. Brothers Stone and David Alexander (York, Biehn) have been constant rivals with each other ever since childhood, when Stone tried to murder his just-born baby brother and was sent to military school because of it. They both have competed for the affections of the same woman (Verona) they fell in love with, and later in the world stage they have been competing for control over the nations of the earth, with Stone being the new One World leader and David being the new President of the United States after his predecessor (Ermey) had died of supposed heart failure. Eventually, David discovers the real reason behind the rivalry -- Stone was the prophesied Antichrist, Satan incarnate in a human body, set to take over the earth and defeat the rival nations at Megiddo in Israel. But does David even have a prayer of stopping Stone from fulfilling prophecy, even though it means the defeat of the Antichrist? PERSONAL COMMENT: If you can get past the idea of the actor who played Basil Exposition from the AUSTIN POWERS movies playing the Antichrist, this movie is an excellent interpretation of events leading up to the battle at Armageddon in Revelation chapter 16. Pretty good visual effects. Says nothing about the Rapture, but then it doesn't really need to.
	SIX: THE MARK UNLEASHED Year Of Release: 2004 Company: Signal Hill Productions Cast: Stephen Baldwin, David White, Kevin Downes, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Roberts, Cosimo Michael, Amy Moon, Brad Heller PLOT SUMMARY: Two lowly carjackers (White, Downes) plus a former policeman turned smuggler (Morgan) are put into prison sometime prior to Armageddon, where a brutal dictator rules the earth and people are forced to become part of the Community by taking what they call "the Holy Implant" or to die at the hands of the Community Police Force and their agents. In the prison, the three of them confront a mysterious inmate (Baldwin) who is a believer in Jesus Christ, who makes them think about the choices they have at their disposal -- to try escaping from prison, to become a believer in Jesus and face martyrdom, or to take "the Holy Implant" and become part of the Community which is destined to go straight to hell. Their choices are made even more difficult by two Community agents (Moon, Heller) who have enlisted the smuggler to assassinate the mysterious underground preacher Elijah Conen (Michael), and so the three of them must determine where their loyalties must lie once they choose to join together in a prison break. PERSONAL COMMENT: Excellent story and casting, though one might be confused by the appearance of Amy Moon who looks like she could have been a double for Carrie Anne Moss from the MATRIX movies.
	TIME CHANGER Year Of Release: 2002 Company: Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group Cast: D. David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden, Jennifer O'Neill, Paul Rodriguez PLOT SUMMARY: 1890s Bible college professor Russell Carlisle (Morin), whose book on Christian morality called "The Changing Time" is about to be endorsed for publishing, finds one of his colleagues Norris Anderson (MacLeod) objecting on what the book actually teaches. To help Russell be convinced of its end result, Norris sends his friend a hundred years into the future through the help of a time machine he's invented. There Russell runs into a laundromat worker named Eddie (Rodriguez) and a Christian librarian named Michelle Bain (O'Neill) who help him understand the kind of world he sees as it progresses toward the time of the Lord's coming within the four days before Russell's return. PERSONAL COMMENT: While not an end-times movie in the same vein as the others on this page, it is an interesting and amusing picture that helps us see what our current culture may look like to a 19th-century Christian, and to see how our own views of morality may help shape future generations to come.