Review of God's Not Dead (2014) by Liz A — 01 Apr 2015

Less than 15 minutes of the nearly 2-hour film is devoted to the actual "debate". The rest is all these little side stories such as a young muslim woman listening to Christian music, the professor's girlfriend breaking up with him because he's hostile towards her faith, a pastor and a missionary trying fruitlessly to get to Disney World, and so on.

It's so scattered that it's painful to watch. Spoiler alert: in the end, essentially the only "argument" for God is that without God there is no moral compass from right and wrong and so life is meaningless, to which the professor has no rebuttal (the "hard core" professor also ends up being pressured to admit that he's not in fact an atheist, he's just mad at God for letting his mother die).

So painfully terrible, it's sad that so many Christians are oohing and ahhing over this film simply because it's "Christian". The bar needs to be set much, much higher for faith-filled filmmaking!