The Rapture Review
The Rapture boldly goes where few movies have gone before -- straight into Judgment Day and beyond. It has few parallels in film history, as it attempts to portray the end of the world as if Biblical interpretations were literally true. Writer/director Michael_Tolkin also wrote and directed the satirical The_New_Age and wrote the deeply sarcastic Robert_Altman masterpiece The_Player. He appears to be attempting a deep-level satire about Messianic religious cultists with this story about a phone information operator (the audaciously offbeat Mimi_Rogers) who converts to fundamentalist end-of-days Christianity. But the film brooks no open judgments about its heroine's faith, which drives her to sacrifice her own child in search of salvation. Though the plot concerning Rogers' conversion seems much too pat, the actress redeems the movie's believability with her unique brand of making risky, implausible roles (such as in Bulletproof_Heart) seem realistic. Michael Betzold, Rovi
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