Review of God's Not Dead (2014) by Thomas W — 02 Aug 2014

A film of very low quality -- the biggest star in the film is Kevin Sorbo ('Hercules: the Legendary Journeys') -- made and marketed to the religious right to try and push a non-existent fear about colleges and universities.

The film is about a devout college freshman (Shane Harper - Flipped) who gets into a "war of wills" against his philosophy professor (Sorbo) after the professor MAKES each of his students write "God Is Dead" on a piece of paper and hand in IF they want to pass his class.

Our good student refuses ... and the rest of the film is about him preparing a debate for the teacher over the course of a few weeks/classes and him alienating others because he simply won't go along with what the clearly-out-of-line professor is making his students do (a philosophy professor is probably the one professor on a campus who'd defend ANYBODY'S belief of anything so this is horribly implausible but taking a jab at the liberal university/educational system of our nation is an easy one for the [very] angry director to make).

Josh must prepare an argument to sway his classmates in his favor (I also found it hard to believe he is alone in his belief?!) and if he fails at this he basically has to kiss his entire future goodbye as this bad grade would keep him from going to the law school he hopes to one day attend (this is of grave concern to his horrible girlfriend).

The dialogue and acting are not good. The story isn't realistic. It is basically simply a condescending slap in the face of intellectual scholars ... few who would ever act in the manner depicted here by Sorbo's professor (who actually issues physical threats to the student .

.. which a dean would allow like NEVER). The film was so far-fetched I couldn't enjoy it. It is a blatant lie. What's that line about bearing false witness again?