Lacking any of the brief cinematic flourishes or affecting performances of Jon Gunn's Do You Believe?, Harold Cronk's God’s Not Dead 2 is a relentlessly talky, blandly directed, visually dull series of characters espousing their beliefs in ways which feel, frankly, tired. But if that film took a step forward, God’s Not Dead 2 takes two steps back.
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Last year, after watching the movie Do You Believe?, I credited the filmmakers for taking a step in the right direction in making films by and for Christians. While the storylines share a theme about standing against a culture that's hostile to Christian faith, the narrative threads other than the main courtroom drama are underdeveloped.
The number of characters is itself a problem. Writers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon have packaged a series of high-profile Christians-in-the-public-square grievances from the past several years into a story of entirely one-dimensional characters: persecuted Christian heroes against crusading anti-God lawyers who squarely fit evangelical stereotypes. Onyango) and the seeker Martin ( Paul Kwo) provide welcome distractions from the courtroom scenes. While the film has too many subplots, the chance to revisit characters from the first God's Not Dead like Rev. Warner Wallace ( Cold Case Christianity) take the stand to testify to the historicity of the person of Jesus Christ and to defend the historical reliability of Scripture. Meanwhile, Christian authors like Lee Strobel ( The Case for Christ) and J. With the help of a teachers' union lawyer ( Jesse Metcalfe) who draws the case because he's "low man on the totem pole," Grace defends her right to refer to Jesus in public. Soon she's being interrogated by the school board about whether the exchange was appropriate.
This time out teacher Grace Wesley ( Melissa Joan Hart) faces termination for answering a student's question about Jesus by referencing Scripture. The forces arrayed against Christianity are on the move, and they're more determined than ever to prove that God is dead. Want Another Take? Watch Crosswalk's Video Review of God's Not Dead 2 If you believe the "show don't tell" dictum about how art should work, prepare yourself: God's Not Dead 2 is an endless stream of "telling" that shows how far Christian filmmakers have to go in creating stories that reach beyond their core audience.
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