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Waiting for Armageddon (2008)
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Filmmakers Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, and Franco Sacchi aim to clarify the abstruse relationship between Christian Zionists and Jews while encouraging dialogue between dissenting groups with this documentary examining the possibility that a substantial American voting block is attempting to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of international holy war. By speaking with Evangelicals in their homes, at conferences, and even during a tour of the site in Israel where they believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth, the filmmakers intertwine Jewish and Christian Zionist perspectives to explore the unique alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel that could lay the groundwork for the battle of Armageddon. Interviewees include Connecticut evangelicals James and Laura Bagg, McAlester, OK-based Evangelicals Tony and Devonna Edwards, and Salem, OR-based doctor H. Wayne House, each of whom believe we are living in the end times, and that they will all be raptured into the heavens when Christ returns and humanity enters into a violent seven-year period known as "The Tribulation." ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Unrated, 1 hr. 14 min.
Documentary, Faith & Spirituality, Special Interest
Directed By: David Heilbroner , Franco Sacchi
In Theaters: Jan 8, 2010 Wide
On DVD: May 18, 2010
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Waiting For Armageddon
Apr 28, 2010
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Kate Davis
Franco Sacchi
David Heilbroner
Critic Reviews for Waiting for Armageddon
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (4)
By turns frightening, fascinating and eye-opening, this documentary offers much to rouse followers of various religious and political stripes.
February 12, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic
Preaches to the (un)converted with a quiet, worried sanity that could have used more force. See it anyway, just to remind yourself how many people are actively wishing for the End of Days.
January 28, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
Top Critic
This documentary about the evangelical belief in biblical prophecy is both overly ambitious and skimpy.
January 22, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
Top Critic
Waiting for Armageddon (which has nothing to do with the 1998 Michael Bay movie) demonstrates that sometimes it's far more devastating to simply point the camera at your subjects and let them talk.
January 8, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
Top Critic
Respectfully and without dramatization (the ideas are electric enough), the directors observe a cross section of articulate evangelicals and accompany a Christian group on a revealing trip to Israel.
January 8, 2010 Comment (1)
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Top Critic
Explores beliefs as pervasive as they are largely unexamined.
January 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
Top Critic
By allowing the believers to damn themselves, or not, with their own words, the filmmakers have provided an equitable forum for them, and a fascinating portrait for the audience
May 30, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews
Those refutations are little comfort against the manifest power of American entitlement and religious superiority fueling final-days fantasies, against which the film winds up being a sobering warning.
February 12, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly
This is an eye-opening look at what 50 million fellow Americans believe.
January 27, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix
A fascinating, alarming and well-balanced documentary that sheds light on a very timely and provocative issue.
January 9, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru
More evidence, if any was necessary, that the United States is the most backward country on Earth.
January 8, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The most refreshing aspect of Waiting for Armageddon is how completely non-polemical and non-judgmental it is, this is no easy task when dealing with a group whose religious and political activities lie at the very center of America?(TM)s growing divisions.
January 8, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine
Seems to think it's a new revelation about the last days for the Rest of Us if the visions of Christian evangelicals come true, and how they influence Mideast policy.
January 8, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com
a better title might have been, Armageddon Now, Please!
January 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com
Waiting For Armageddon lets a handful of the devout explain their worldview in greater detail, yet filmmakers Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi, and David Heilbroner don't go looking for the simple-minded or easily mockable.
January 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Noel Murray
AV Club
The scary specter of all-out Holy War as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
January 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Kam Williams
Sly Fox
The putative objectivity of Armageddon isn't quite politically savvy enough to strike its realpolitik target.
January 5, 2010 Full Review | Comment
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Slant Magazine
It's scary to see how many of my fellow Americans believe this stuff.
December 24, 2009 Full Review | Comments (7)
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve
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While this is a well-made and balanced documentary, as a Christian, I honestly don't really even regard "the rapture" as important. If it happens in my lifetime, GREAT, but it could also happen 1,000 years from now. In the end this film appears to be trying to paint all sides involved as desiring war, while that may be true of some hoping to speed their way to the 2nd coming, I hardly think that is the general thought of all believers of the main faiths of the world. June 4, 2010
Andy Siems
Religious pablum ,horsecrap,hypocritical,fear mongering ,indoctrination,jesus crapola. STAY AWAY!! May 31, 2011
d jones
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