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"Left Behind: World at War" is not a movie built around subtlety.
This is an in-your-face, Spike TVtype of Christian film, built around exploding cars, shootouts and -- well, let's face it -- the end of the world. This is evangelism on angel dust, the Gospel according to Arnold Schwarzenegger. You want subtle Christianity, read Emily Dickinson.
"World at War," the third movie in the "Left Behind" series, is based on the last 50 pages of the book "Tribulation Force," the second in the megaing "Left Behind" series written by Tim LaHaye and Black Forest's Jerry Jenkins.
It opens with a bang -- quite literally -- as World War III rips through Washington, D.C., and the rest of the world. A confused, hopeless U.S. President Gerald Fitzhugh (Lou Gossett Jr.) watches the destruction from the Oval Office and ponders aloud whether he's already in hell.
It had already been a rough week for Fitzhugh. Most of the movie is narrated in flashback mode, following Fitzhugh as he discovers that Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie) -- a suit-wearing,...