The
Remaining
**
Dir: Casey La Scala. With: Alexa Vega, Johnny
Pacar, Shaun Sipos. 88 mins. Cert: 15
A minor entry in the
Rapture cycle that has given us just-remade Christian movie 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 a quartet of 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.
The Remaining is now playing in selected cinemas.
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