Bad movies get remade all the time with the intention of improving on a subpar first attempt, but the gods conspired in all the wrong ways when it came to the 2014 version of Left Behind.
The source novel had already been adapted once before, and it fared every bit as well among critics as you’d expect from a heavily religious thriller starring Kirk Cameron in the lead role. It cratered at the box office, sold unsurprisingly well on home video with its target demographic, and rustled up a paltry 16 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Second time around, legendary stunt coordinator and second unit director Vic Armstrong called the shots with Nicolas Cage in the lead role during the height of his wilderness years, and it would be an understatement to say the result were aggressively worse for the sophomore stab at bringing Left Behind to the screen.
With a zero percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating from 70 reviews, it’s statistically one of the worst movies that’s ever been made, but people are still tracking it down on streaming for reasons we’re struggling to comprehend. Per FlixPatrol, the atrocious airborne folly has ended up as one of Prime Video’s top-viewed features, in what’s truly a shocking development.
Reinventing an already-awful film and making it even worse is the exact opposite of what the agenda is supposed to be, even if we’re struggling to wrap our heads around viewers still deeming it worthy of a shot after Left Behind has had almost a decade to solidify its status as a trainwreck.