Plot Summary
A reporter is doing a regular live new report when the whole world starts falling apart! Buildings begin crumbling to pieces and roads start cracking up. The only answer is that everything points to Jerusalem and Armageddon. The reporter suddenly realizes that her daughter and husband are missing, so she follows in their footsteps to find them again, meeting bizarre characters along the way. Will she ever be able to find them before the world to irreparable pieces???
Production Quality (0 points)
The Asylum’s Faith Films venture boasts that hardly any money is spent on these parody films they make, and it definitely shows. All the weird, crazy, and basically terrible special effects and sound effects used reflect both lack of funding and lack of care. Most scenes look like they’re done in one take and just slapped together in every way. It’s also likely that little post-production work was performed in these films. The only reason to even highlight them at all is to show how the only reason films like this are able to be made is because there are hundreds of terrible Christian films that are supposedly serious. Thus, The Asylum is able to hide among them and parody familiar titles.
Plot and Storyline Quality (-1 points)
Countdown: Jerusalem pretends like it’s from the makers of familiar apocalyptic titles by lifting the same old predictable apocalyptic elements and storylines and regurgitating them into a nonsensical movie. Again, this is easy to do because Christian film makers have set the bar so low. Everything about this movie is a total ripoff and a joke, but then again, this wasn’t the first or last time someone replicated the Left Behind concept and ‘rebranded’ it (see the Apocalypse saga, the new Left Behind, the other new Left Behind reboot, The Mark saga, The Moment After saga, Jerusalem Countdown, etc.). This concept is so worn out that it’s almost worth making fun of at this point.
Acting Quality (1 point)
Though this cast is clearly not trying and is phoning in performances, they are not all bad, which saves this film from being negative. But for the most part, they are overly dramatic and forced. Thus, this rounds out a full-scale parody.
Conclusion
At this point, it’s hard to tell what the difference between a parody Christian film and a so-called serious Christian film is. That’s why suspiciously-titled films like this one are so easy to put out: because the Christian film market is such a mess, nobody can tell who’s serious anymore. If the Christian entertainment world raised the bar and didn’t just elevate anything that claims the name of Christ because ‘persecution’ or something, then these sorts of films wouldn’t exist. But maybe some things are worth making fun of.
Final Rating: 0 out of 10 points
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