Eric Roberts is in the 2013 film, Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End.

Of course, he’s only in it for a few minutes.  In fact, if you blink, you will miss him.  He plays Sheriff Jenson, who is in charge of enforcing the law in a small desert community.  He appears long enough to tell salesman John McManus (David A.R. White) not to leave town.  McManus has just killed three armed men who were attempting to rob a general store.  The store’s owner (Ray Wise) invites him to dinner but the cops are curious as to how a salesman could be so proficient at killing people.

Revelation Road plays out over the course of one long night.  A group of bikers, led by the fearsome Hawg (Brian Bosworth), are seeking revenge for the death of their compatriots.  Meanwhile, Iran is pushing the world towards war.  In a motel, a woman asks John for money.  Lighting flashes.  Lights flicker on and off.  The Earth shakes.  It’s a fearful time, largely because the world itself is coming to an end.  A little over an hour into this 88 minute film, there’s a sudden blinding light and suddenly, a fourth of the cast vanishes.  One person who does not vanish runs into a kindly stranger, played by Bruce Marchiano.  Marchiano will be well-known to viewers of faith-based cinema for the number of times that he’s played Jesus.  So, you can probably guess what’s happened.

Revelation Road ends with the promise of a sequel, which means that the film also ends with a lot of unanswered questions.  It makes Revelation Road difficult to really review because it’s obviously meant to be a prologue to the actual story.  I will note that Revelation Road is a surprisingly violent movie, at least by the standards of most faith-based films.  Then again, most of the violence was in self-defense and the Bible itself is full of stories of violent men who found redemption.  In fact, you could probably argue that it’s impossible to do an apocalypse movie that isn’t violent.  We’ll just have to wait to see where this story is heading.

I’ll review the sequel tomorrow.

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

1. Paul’s Case (1980)
2. Star 80 (1983)
3. Runaway Train (1985)
4. To Heal A Nation (1988)
5. Best of the Best (1989)
6. Blood Red (1989)
7. The Ambulance (1990)
8. The Lost Capone (1990)
9. Best of the Best II (1993)
10. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
11. Voyage (1993)
12. Love Is A Gun (1994)
13. Sensation (1994)
14. Dark Angel (1996)
15. Doctor Who (1996)
16. Most Wanted (1997)
17. Mercy Streets (2000)
18. Raptor (2001)
19. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
20. Strange Frequency (2001)
21. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
22. Border Blues (2004)
23. Mr. Brightside (2004)
24. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
25. We Belong Together (2005)
26. Hey You (2006)
27. Depth Charge (2008)
28. Amazing Racer (2009)
29. The Chaos Experiment (2009)
30. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
31. Bed & Breakfast (2010)
32. Enemies Among Us (2010)
33. The Expendables (2010) 
34. Sharktopus (2010)
35. Beyond The Trophy (2012)
36. The Dead Want Women (2012)
37. Deadline (2012)
38. The Mark (2012)
39. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
40. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
41. Bonnie And Clyde: Justified (2013)
42. Lovelace (2013)
43. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
44. The Perfect Summer (2013)
45. Self-Storage (2013)
46. Sink Hole (2013)
47. A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
48. This Is Our Time (2013)
49. Bigfoot vs DB Cooper (2014)
50. Doc Holliday’s Revenge (2014)
51. Inherent Vice (2014)
52. Road to the Open (2014)
53. Rumors of War (2014)
54. Amityville Death House (2015)
55. Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
56. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
57. Las Vegas Story (2015)
58. Sorority Slaughterhouse (2015)
59. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
60. Enemy Within (2016)
61. Hunting Season (2016)
62. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
63. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
64. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
65. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
66. Dark Image (2017)
67. The Demonic Dead (2017)
68. Black Wake (2018)
69. Frank and Ava (2018)
70. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
71. Clinton Island (2019)
72. Monster Island (2019)
73. The Reliant (2019)
74. The Savant (2019)
75. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
76. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
77. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
78. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
79. Free Lunch Express (2020)
80. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
81. Top Gunner (2020)
82. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
83. The Elevator (2021)
84. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
85. Killer Advice (2021)
86. Megaboa (2021)
87. Night Night (2021)
88. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
89. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
90. Red Prophecies (2021)
91. A Town Called Parable (2021)
92. Bleach (2022)
93. Dawn (2022)
94. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
95. 69 Parts (2022)
96. The Rideshare Killer (2022)
97. The Company We Keep (2023)
98. D.C. Down (2023)
99. Aftermath (2024)
100. Bad Substitute (2024)
101. Devil’s Knight (2024)
102. Insane Like Me? (2024)
103. Space Sharks (2024)
104. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)
105. Broken Church (2025)
106. When It Rains In L.A. (2025)