Leap: A Tale of the End Days has all the hallmarks of amateurish Christian cinema: shoddy camerawork, illogical framing, padding the runtime with meaningless montages, uneven sound, songs intruding on the action for no purpose, characters behaving inscrutably, questionable sports, purchased special effects that stick out from the cheap cinematography like a sore thumb, and of course a plot that relies on cherry-picked Bible quotes. It stands out from the crowd, not so much by self-referential passages (where a character in this, a sequel, actually watches the preceding film on video!), but by breaking the Christian cinematic convention of clean mouths (some amazing cursing dialogue is heard) and bloody violence (not counting the stuff coming from rivers and water faucets). As usual, the good guys are the Christians, and a very specific type of Christian. I would bet a dime to a dollar that filmmaker Christopher Temple does not really know any actual Catholics, based on his portrayal of a college senior "brought up Catholic" whose responses to questions about religion bear zero resemblance to how any Catholic - good, bad, active or lapsed - would talk. I won't spoil the ending, but lets just say it is infuriating how the worst characters win because they espouse the "correct" interpretation of the Bible, and others lose no matter that they pray fervently every second of their waking lives.
Two stars for the uproariously funny performance of Annalise Cook as the television reporter. Also rib-tickling are the closing credits, which mention one name so many times I fear the Sin of Pride may have overtaken him.
