This movie may be one of the greatest unintentional parodies of all time. If you're looking for a good dose of humor, you'll find it here (if you can bring yourself to appreciate it).God's Not Dead is a faith-based movie starring nobody you've ever heard or will hear about. The main character is a college student named Josh Wheaton (Joss Whedon!?), who's super evil and maniacal atheistic professor is forces his students to say that God doesn't exist so that they can ignore a religion debate in his philosophy class. There are also some really weird and random subplots that come together in a way that makes it clear that the movie is begging to be seen as "smart".
The performances in this movie are legendary. Never have I seen someone able to deliver lines in a way that made me want to rip my eyeballs out in the way that everyone in God's Not Dead is able to do.
The editing and soundtrack are equally terrible. Characters will go from standing in one shot to sitting down in the next and the soundtrack sounds like it made by compiling a list of the most overused songs in movies of all time.
And the writing. Dear God, the writing. The story is mediocre at best. The dialogue is ludicrous. The characters are just... nothing. There's nothing there. No character has any unique traits in any way other than their religion. That's not to mention the non-nonsensical cameos from the Duck Dynasty guy and some Christian rock group. They don't add anything relevant to the story and serve only to push the filmmaker's agenda.
Overall rating: .5 out of four stars. It's like Crash but even stupider and even more preachy.
Reference scale:
Left Behind < God's Not Dead < Jesus Camp (I don't know if this counts as a faith-based movie... I'm using it anyway because all the other faith based movies really suck)
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