Plot Summary
You’ve heard the story before: in one second, everything is changed on the planet when millions of people suddenly disappear in the Rapture and millions more are left behind, even those who though they were Christians. A whole bunch of random people are confused by the recent catastrophe and struggle to survive in the dark new world that is immediately created by the Rapture. Will they ever learn the truth about what happened?
Production Quality (.5 point)
In yet another poorly produced Rapture film, video quality is the only positive element to mention here. Otherwise, the camera work is very shaky and inconsistent, as well as full of wild cuts and extremely close angles. Flashbacks are set in weird sepia tones, and there are too many flashes throughout. There are lots of poorly lit and very dark scenes. Audio quality is very poor as well, including a generic sountrack and those annoying background sirens from Final: The Rapture. On that note, sets, locations, and props are cheap and limited, as usual. Finally, the editing is typically dizzying and disorienting. Basically, this is another slipshod production about the End Times. What else is new?
Plot and Storyline Quality (0 points)
Like many plots that lead up to the Rapture event in the middle and then depict the aftermath in the second half of the story, The Basement has no clear direction, purpose, or focus that guide it. It is full of too many cheesy characters that crowd out the runtime so that it’s impossible to get to know any of them or remember who they are. The non-Christian character are portrayed ridiculously, as usual, and the Christians are too perfect, all due to laughable dialogue. There is no way to know where the story is going or coming from as there is tons of useless content and a lot of the runtime is wasted on flashbacks to events that happened minutes before. All of this aside, the manufactured suspense is full of typical apocalyptic tropes and contains no creativity whatsoever. After jumping all over the place for nearly two hours, basically all the problems are solved in a vague, indiscernible ending that was likely left open for a sequel. But hey, the market needed another cheesy Rapture movie.
Acting Quality (-.5 point)
The acting is likely the worst section of this film, as a majority of the cast members act in very juvenile fashions. Their line delivery is painfully forced, like someone is pulling the lines out of them. Emotions are also over the top like this. There is too much yelling throughout and too many sequences of cast members talking over each other. This is overall an annoying and obnoxious portion, thus warranting the negative score.
Conclusion
Note to future film makers: please do make different genres of Christian films, but please please please refrain from making anymore Rapture films. There are so many tropes in the apocalyptic genre that are complete and laughably overused, so it’s best to steer clear of this unless you have a really, really good idea. There are plenty of other ways to make good Christians suspense plots that don’t involve End Times opinions. But no matter what, there’s no excuse for having production and acting this bad.
Final Rating: 0 out of 10 points
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