Mike McCahill 

The Remaining review – biblical torment

Alexa Vega guides an ungodly group through waves of destruction and dodgy CG demons, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

2014, THE REMAINING
'A semi-compelling idea' … Alexa Vega in The Remaining. Photograph: Allstar/Sony Pictures Photograph: Allstar/Sony Pictures

A minor entry in the Rapture cycle that has given us Christian film Left Behind and HBO’s secular talking point The Leftovers. This one errs towards the credulous, dispatching Bible-clutching former Spy Kid Alexa Vega to guide four ungodly stragglers through a succession of New Testament torments. A semi-compelling idea gets neutralised by blandly scrappy execution: after blowing its budget on the first wave of destruction, everyone’s left to hole up in chapel, dodge indifferently rendered CG demons and wonder where they went astray. Its physical form is in cinemas; its soul is already circling the 24-hour garage bargain bin.

 

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