movie review

The movie I watched is called Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm. It was released in 2000 and it was directed by Peter Gerretsen. The protagonists are Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis) and Bronson Pearl (Richard Nester), who are news reporters for WNN, and the antagonists are Franco Macalousso (Sam Bornstein), who plays the anti-Christ and Len Parker (David Roddis), the manager of WNN who is working for the anti-Christ.

The movie begins with Helen and her grandmother watching the WNN news where anchorman Bronson is reporting from the middle east where the war of Armageddon is going on. After her grandmother and a lot of other people mysteriously disappear, Helen views some tapes her Grandmother left. The tapes are about show about the end times and Helen discovers that her Grandmother and the other people who disappeared were taken to be with Jesus and that the world is currently in the rule of the anti-Christ (Franco Macalousso), whom everybody presumes to be the Messiah. After watching these videos Helen becomes a christian and then tries to convince his co-worker Bronson that Franco Macalousso is the anti-Christ, but he doesn't believe her and thinks she is derranged. Helen is then sentenced to death along with everyone else who believes in God and Christ. Bronson goes to his father's grave and digs it out and discovers that his father's remains are no longer there and realizes that Helen had been telling the truth. Bronoson is also sentenced to death, and he will die on live national television. Just as he is about to be executed a video is played of Len Parker telling Bronson that nobody has a say in whether to believe in Macalousso or not. Then, back at the station one of Parker's agents has also become a christian and is playing Helen's tapes, resulting in people accepting Jesus as their savior all across the world. That is how the movie ends.

I really liked the plot of the movie, although it wasn't very related to the apocalypse in certain parts. The movie is right to say that there will be wars and natural disasters when the end is near because that is mentioned in the Bible. However in the Bible it never says that people will suddenly mysteriously disappear leaving behind only their clothes. The Bible says that God will not let his people go through that hardship, but it never says how he will prevent them from going through it. What i did like about the movie was how they portray the anti-Christ and everything he will do. The movie shows that the anti-Christ will deceive many by stopping all the wars and making himself seem like the Messiah they were all waiting for after all the calamity they have had to endure. Most of the movie does interpret the Apocalypse very close to what will happen, but it also seems to me that the director assumed some of those events are going to happen because some are never mentioned in the Bible. For example, Len Parker was at one point able to move objects without touching them. This was probably added to give a higher sense of power to the anti-Christ, but the Bible never says that he will have such a power. Other than that the movie does an excellent job illustrating the Apocalypse. It demonstrates very thoroughly what people will have to go through when the day arrives.