Waiting for Armageddon
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66 out of 100

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  • Summary: America's 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This astonishing documentary explores their world - in their homes, at conferences, and on a wide-ranging tour of Israel. By interweaving Christian, Zionist, Jewish and critical perspectives along with telling archival materials, the filmmakers probe the politically powerful - and potentially explosive - alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel...an alliance that may set the stage for what one prominent Evangelical leader calls "World War III." (First Run Features)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    75
    Davis and company do get at the odd mix of middle-class lifestyle and cheerful doom-saying that defines the mainstream apocalypticons.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    The recent trend in political documentaries is for filmmakers to heap ridicule and sarcasm on people they don't agree with, a la Michael Moore. 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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    70
    Line up this terrific documentary about end-times evangelical Christians against Bill Maher's sneering "Religulous," and you'll see an excellent argument for restraint and a fair fight.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    58
    This documentary about the evangelical belief in biblical prophecy is both overly ambitious and skimpy.

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