Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002)

Second in the ongoing series of Christian films based on best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, TRIBULATION FORCE follows up where the enormously popular LEFT BEHIND left off. Confusion and chaos ensue after the mysterious vanishings of millions of people, and U.N. Secretary General Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie) seeks to pacify the world with a new temporal ideology, one in which religion would be made obsolete. A group of rebels, cognizant of the nefarious Carpathia's true identity, form the Tribulation Force to combat his foretold rule of darkness and to save as many souls as they can. As prophesied in the Bible, witnesses of God have descended to Earth in Jerusalem, and Carpathia refuses them a public audience. The reporter Buck Williams, played by Kirk Cameron (TV's GROWING PAINS), and pilot Ray Steele (Brad Johnson) infiltrate Carpathia's tight circle of power to inform the world of God's message--via live television. Interwoven throughout the film is the budding love story between Buck and Chloe Steele, Ray Steele's daughter played by Janaya Stephens, although the two exchange no more than a kiss on the cheek. A science-fiction story at its core, TRIBULATION FORCE offers a vision of the future as according to Revelations, perhaps most resonant with viewers of Christian faith.