If you watched Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End, then you should watch Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire, which is the second of three movies in the “franchise.” Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire is far better than Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End. Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire actually includes a lot of scenes from the first movie so theoretically, you can figure out what is going on without watching the first movie, but I’m a completist so I would never encourage that. Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire will appeal to completists who enjoy Christian film productions that promise action, proselytizing and Biblically inspired apocalyptic mayhem.
Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire occurs after the rapture and crap hits the fan. All the violent nutters from the first installment have eaten their Wheaties and other nutters are coming out of the closet (it rhymes with Hannibal). The head of the biker gang is still after the salesman with a secret who now has a little girl as his sidekick. Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire gives us more background on the antagonist and protagonist so the narrative is moderately more interesting. The fight scenes are better. There are some themes that don’t get addressed in this film or the next: why is the salesman committed to his car (Supernatural tv series shout out?), mysterious SUV encounter. The bikers become fleshed out as human beings instead of tropes, but the story is a bit far-fetched.
Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire is Mad Max meets Touched by an Angel without the angels or the sea of glass and fire. If you’re not into Christian film productions, skip it.
SPOILERS
The salesman needs to repent of more than killing. How about repenting for selling crappy bulletproof vests that don’t work! No wonder Ray Wise in Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End doesn’t buy them.
Also you know who shouldn’t be raptured? The passive aggressive sister-in-law insults the housewife’s cooking and lack of clean placemats. Anyone read about Mary and Martha? You are a guest, but if you’re not going to be polite, then offer to cook and do the laundry.
