"Left Behind: The Movie," based on the best-selling novel about the Bible-predicted end times, is first and foremost a missionary tract for evangelicial Christianity. Sure, it starts out being more than that. Millions of people -- children, mostly -- have disappeared sans special effects, leaving behind their clothes and loved ones. No one can explain it, except the Bible-believers, who understand that it's the rapture. The righteous have been taken away to heaven, while the rest have been left to endure the rise of the Antichrist and all the bad stuff he has in store for mankind. News reporter Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron), meanwhile, is putting together clues that will lead him to the aforementioned Evil One. It's a plot that will be familiar to those who already believe a united European currency and the United Nations are insidious; in this case, the U.N. is part of a plot to control the world's food supply.
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