I had a God moment that involved this film. I sat down to watch a movie on my iPad. I clicked on Antman. The Antman screen came up and I chose watch/play. Oddly enough, "Do you believe?" came up instead. It didn't start at the beginning either even though I was not prompted to "resume playing". It started at the scene where the street evangelist asked the preacher if he believes. The preacher's response is, "well I am a pastor" and the evangelist says, "that is not what I asked you". I was in seminary at the time and I knew God was telling me that it doesn't matter how much head knowledge I have about God. What matters is how I put my heart knowledge of Jesus to work in the world.
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StevePulaski20 March 2015"Do You Believe?" kicks off a year that, judging from the amount of trailers Pure Flix Entertainment attached to its showings of "Do You Believe?," will feature a number of independent Christian films, much like last year. "Do You Believe?" comes out the same weekend last year's "God's Not Dead" was released and took box office analysts and the entire film community by surprise with its enormous opening in less than 1,000 screens in the United States. This shows little doubt that Pure Flix Entertainment is anxious to try and reinvigorate the buzz that film managed to snag. Unlike most Christian films, "God's Not Dead" wasn't burdened by an amateurish production and the kind of cheap, poor moralizing that a great deal of contemporary films like to emphasize, but it actually found some semblance of substance as its characters debated the existence of God.
The film is an anthology, following twelve or so characters that are all confronted with life's tribulations and hardships, with the film focusing on how they handle such tests and how they lean on other characters in order to get by. These individuals are a struggling single mother (Mira Sorvino) with a young, optimistic daughter (Makenzie Moss), who has to find a different place to sleep every night, an older gentleman (Brian Bosworth), crippled by an increasingly worsening sickness, who helps take in the mother and daughter, an atheist doctor (Sean Astin), who is sick and tired of hearing God and Jesus get the credit for the healing and care he provides, and his humanist wife (Andrea Logan White), a pregnant teen (Madison Pettis), who has run away from home, a local pastor (Ted McGinley), two petty gangsters (Senyo Amoaku and Arthur Cartwright), an older couple (Lee Majors and Cybill Shepherd) who have recently lost their only daughter, a paramedic (Liam Matthews), who is now faced with a lawsuit from the doctor's wife because he spent the final minutes of a dying man's life asking him if he knew Jesus, his struggling wife (Valerie Domínguez), and her PTSD-stricken, ex-Marine brother (Joseph Julian Soria). The central idea looming over all these individuals is the question of whether or not they believe, how will they turn their belief, if any, into an action, and how they will express their belief through others (spoiler: usually through the exchange of little wooden crosses).
To begin with, the writers and directors of anthologies immediately deserve some praise for undertaking such an enormous task, and director Johnathan M. Gunn and writers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon need be hailed for giving each character their time of day on screen. While most of the characters struggle to be given life beyond their own stereotype, convention, or surface explanation of their backstory (how did the mother and daughter come to live on the streets? What was the past of the man who takes them in? What makes the doctor condemn religion so much? What happened to the daughter of the older couple?), there is at least time invested in each of the characters, and I'm willing to bet each of them get about the same amount of screen time. Gunn, Konzelman, and Solomon may've been hard-pressed to make each character in the film a fully fleshed-out person, but their end result is far greater than it could've been.
Not only is this because they give about equal time to these characters, but they also go the extra mile to recognize certain issues and facts of life that many religious films overlook or simplify. Including gangsters, single mothers, and the fact that the Christian gospel has become a controversial concept in recent years. This makes "Do You Believe?" a film that transcends the annoying bubble many of these Christian films get trapped inside. Konzelman and Solomon break those boundaries down and include those ideas, and to a degree that doesn't show them as cartoonish, but moderately realistic.
It's when Konzelman and Solomon begin to take exaggerated, emotionally-manipulative routes to get their message across to the audience that "Do You Believe?" becomes a weaker, less impressive film. Consider the ending, without giving spoilers, which is a circus of a shootout, a huge traffic pileup, a birth, a proclaimed-miracle, and a near-drowning. It's bound to be one of the most explosive and cluttered movie endings of the year, and one of the most unbelievable, especially for a film that was doing so-so in the realism department before this happened. It's a screenwriter's opportunity when inflicting such a cacophony of powerful emotional material to trick people that what they saw was a series of impacting events that make up life, when anyone who sees films on a frequent basis will see these scenarios for what they are - emotionally manipulative and contrived.
Having said that, "Do You Believe?" is still better than Kendrick brothers' affairs like "Facing the Giants" and "Fireproof," and light years more capable and accomplished than such travesties as "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas" and "Last Ounce of Courage." Its central idea is one that's, however, made for the kind of sentimentality and cloying hope and optimism shown in the film that, personally, makes me cringe and forgoes all ideas of achieving some conception of true-to-life instances. Yet the film can be given credit for how it balances a variety of characters and how it goes about profiling them in a way that's not as dehumanizing and as shallow as you think, but also not as deep as you want. This is the "Crash" of Christian films, and, remarkably speaking, that Oscar winner and this potential low-key hit are operating on more-or-less the same playing field and quality level. -
Jan_El_Senor28 March 2015I took my wife to see this on or little getaway this week. It was a pretty well made movie. In my opinion it was much better than God's Not Dead. The characters, the plot lines, and the acting were all more relatable in this film. So I wouldn't tell people who didn't like God's Not Dead to write this one off.
Don't get me wrong, the film had it's faults. Some of the character's story lines were kind of silly. However, the acting made up for the bad writing in some parts, especially in the case of Brian Bosworth (Joe) and Makenzie Moss (Lily). These two stole every scene they were in. Kudos to them.
While I went in expecting the film to be a Crash-like film, I didn't expect the climax to be pretty much exactly the same. It still worked, and it was well made. But the fact that it was basically a remake of that climax kind of stole a little of the thunder for me.
I've seen 3 or 4 Pureflix films now, and I've noticed two things:
1. They have a knack for finding amazing child actors. The children they cast in this film and Christmas Angel all pretty much stole the show.
2. The other films are all better than God's Not Dead. It's puzzles me to know that film has been their biggest financial success when watching some of their other films.
At the end of the day, I don't think this film will convert anyone or change any lives, but it's a good film to watch with the family (it might be a little too much for the younger kids). If you're not Christian, watch it as a curiosity and be aware of that it's a Christian film going in. It's not as preposterous as God's Not Dead, and it's a pretty impressive film for it's low budget. -
I trust IMDb to tell me what is worth my time to watch. I saw the bad rating on this movie, and watched it anyway.
I can't see how anyone, except someone who hates Christians could rate this movie badly. It's about being people doing good, even when it's hard. What's wrong with that?
It's interesting that a movie that reflects good gets a rating of 5.3, but if you have a movie about vampires, witches, werewolves, or murder from beginning to end you get outstanding ratings.
I would recommend this movie to anyone who believes in the greater good, rather they believe in Christ or not. -
lord_nightrose23 March 2015Poorly written, poorly acted, poorly researched, overly melodramatic, heavy-handed choir-preaching. Can't wait to see this cast again in their next Walmart ad!
Oh, and black characters as stereotypes? In a David A. R. White movie? NO WAY! Who knew?
And I had no idea that you could opt for a non-medically necessary abortion at 9 months pregnant!
Seriously, this movie is insane. I go in there and I see a movie where literally nothing supernatural happens, and it's supposed to be an argument for God. Meanwhile, believers are going in there and inferring miracles and design all throughout the whole thing.
You're writing a work of fiction and even then you can't have god do anything more miraculous than things that might very easily happen otherwise?
This movie is from the same company that did The Encounter, which has Jesus and Satan appearing to people in a diner. They're not shy about the miraculous stuff. But I guess they have to tone it down for the theatrical releases. -
monika-woods20 March 2015Christians will get it. They will understand that the subplots, twists and turns of life are intricately woven into a careful masterpiece that we call life. When we went into the theater, I was not anticipating much. Based on other movies that do not connect multi-plots well, I decided this would be a "feel good" story that would relay a good message to the youth group I was with. Thankfully, and much to my surprise, I was wrong. The movie was seamlessly interactive. The characters were developed well enough to convey an "everyman" message, about people from all walks of life and how we can all affect one another, in a positive or negative way.
The movie is not about winning an Oscar, it is about winning people over, by providing hope with inspiration for all to change for the betterment of all humanity. -
This film is exceptionally emotional at times. It delivers strong characters with compelling dramatic arcs. The movie challenges Christians to live better lives and take stock of how they live and what they truly believe.
It certainly isn't a subtle movie in any way. It's a sledgehammer of a Christian film and, sometimes, a sledgehammer is the right tool for the job. The movie is pure Christian faith and what it means to the characters depicted. That may not be the level of faith all Christians are able to achieve but it should be the goal. Films like this are a reminder as well as a message to live life at the highest level possible. Yes, there is a certain level of cheese on display in a few plot lines but it's wonderful and satisfying cheese.
I do love the fact that, unlike other Christian films that I've seen, they brought out top tier acting talent. These performances were amazing top to bottom. Obviously everyone knows Mira Sorvino, Cybill Shepherd and Sean Astin can bring it but journeymen actors like Ted McGinley and Lee Majors give what may be the best performances of their career. I'm stunned to say that even The Boz was very very good. Who knew Brian Bosworth had that type of performance in him?
Overall, for those of Faith this movie is a must see. For those who are lacking Faith, it just may be an eye opener. -
I'm in ministry, and I'm all about using art to share the gospel... but this movie is just not good. The writing's bad, the acting is stiff, and the concept is pretty much a less interesting Christian version of "Crash". It also played into some racially insensitive stereotypes: the criminals were all black, the black mother gave threats of "whoopins", the unmarried pregnant girl was Latina, and all the good guys were white. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say these things were unintentional by the writers, but the racial undertones were still obvious to those paying attention. It seems the message of the movie is trying to reach non-Christians, but it's so full of "Christianese" language and phrases that the only people who will have any idea what the heck they're talking about are those who already believe. I'm not against using film and all art forms to proclaim Jesus, but I am against doing it badly. Christians need to be creative and original, and not just emulate (poorly) what is being done in the "secular" movie and music industries. If we are to hold ourselves to higher standards throughout life, let's hold ourselves to higher standards when it comes to making art as well.
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rhhdvh30 March 2015I question the value of IMDb Ratings when the average rating is polarized, with a dominant percentage (43) at 10, and a significant percentage (29) at 1, with very few in between.
The actual user reviews are highly favorable, with only 3 highly unfavorable. So, there are just a lot of trash voters too lazy or inarticulate to really review the movie to give their reasons, just the thumbs up or thumbs down minimal input.
My wife and I decided to go see what it was all about, especially with a couple of former "A" list actors involved.
The divided vote was reflected by the content's portrayal of real life; how the stories of 12 people converge one night. The perspective is of how life intertwines, good and evil, comedy and tragedy. For us it evoked a lot of emotions, as we had several parallel stores in our lives. Broken relationships, disease, death, depression, violence, the gamut of human condition that have us questioning God.
Some of the characters had a common guiding principle in their lives, others only their own benefit. Still, life went on and paths crossed changing some character's opinions based on actual experiences.
For us the aggressive plot moved along at a quick pace, the character development was a but sketchy because of the 12 stories, but in the end it all fit together. Lots of tears, more of joy than sadness.
From our perspective it was very well done for a low budget Christian movie, obviously appealing to those who believe, and perhaps graphic and life like enough to set an example for the critics when they come to a life bridge to cross. -
Jojo-UK14 September 2020So I won't pretend that the overall 'vibe' of this film is not clichè-riddled. However when you put that aside and actually tap into the message of this film - that's when it comes into its own. It is a beautiful story of conviction and compassion overcoming all things, even in the midst of immense tragedy and suffering. You don't have to be a Christian to understand that message. We all need to simply love one another (especially strangers). The way things came together for the characters in the film was beautiful and realistic. I was pleased it didn't look to gloss over issues of loss, death and pain. Would definitely recommend watching it, with a box of tissues at the ready 😉
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You don't have to be a Christian or, indeed, a believer of any kind to enjoy movies (or books, or plays) that have Christian themes, or that clearly promote a message. Such themes are very subtly played out in Gabriel Axel's 'Babette's Feast,' less subtly in the Narnia stories and Lord of the Rings, and rather blatantly in, for example, Ben Hur, to give only a few examples. All these have in common that they tell engaging stories in either dramatic settings, or with vivid, engaging characters, or both.
'Do you believe?' has insipid, cardboard-cutout characters and no genuine drama whatever. I can't trash it completely, because it's decently acted with competent cinematography -- a slick package, in fact. So slick, in fact, as to be suspicious. This is a movie that is clearly designed to push a product, and any artistic or dramatic interest it might raise is clearly a device, directed toward that end.
Although the movie is frequently described as "Christian," in reality it promotes a particular kind of US, affluent, protestant Christianity. One of the characters is a tame pastor whose role is merely to expound the doctrine of substitutionary atonement and keep everybody on message. I suspect that if you were, say, a Catholic, or Eastern Orthodox, that message would grate on you almost as much as it would on an atheist.
It wouldn't be so bad if the message were not delivered in such a plodding, heavy-handed manner. All the Christian Characters are shown as self-sacrificing, noble, and charitable; everybody else as in some way defective. The non-Christians exist solely to act as foils to the Christians, and highlight their Godly virtues.
I know from personal experience that most Christians are as prone to be conflicted and self-interested as anybody else, even if they aspire to higher ideals. But there's little sense of that aspiration in the movie -- even the putative "bad guys" are just good guys who have fallen in bad company, and just need a little nudge from the Big G to become fully-fledged saints. There's no sense that anybody struggles with his or her faith, or is put into real danger by it. The biggest risk that any character in the movie faces for standing up for his principles is to lose his job. Big deal -- it's not example martyrdom, is it? If you are already a Christian -- in particular, a protestant evangelical Christian -- then I guess this movie might give you a warm fuzzy. Anybody else, anybody who can look beyond the slick facade and see the not-very-subtle manipulation, will wish we hadn't stopped throwing Christians to the lions. -
It is unfortunate that this movie is currently getting such a low rating on IMDb because it is a quite a good movie and it isn't a fair representative of the quality. There are many Christian movies out there, some of them very low quality and low budget, often not very well made that I am fairly critical of. This is not one of those movies.
I am a youth director and took 8 youth (both junior high and high school) and 3 adults to go watch the movie and every one LOVED it. There wasn't a dry eye in the place - it is touching and inspiring.
Look here is the deal: there are some cheesy moments in the movie. But it is a powerful story, over all VERY well told, and has a needed message: faith without works is dead.
I am giving this movie an 8/10. I thought about bumping it up because of the low rating it had been given, but as a movie critic I think this is the fair and actual rating it deserves. It is a GREAT movie (and very few movies will I give a 9 or 10).
If you do not like Christianity then you will probably not like this movie.
If you are a Christian, I highly recommend it!! -
cheriedack14 April 2020This was a pretty good movie. I liked how the plot lines came together, but I found some of the acting stilted. Even so, it was enjoyable and worth watching.
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thu-430 January 2017There is nothing wrong about showing how people care about other people. Or how people find their way out of a life of crime or find hope. Sure not. But what this film mainly tries is telling me: if you want to be a good person, you have to believe what we believe. And that's just nonsense. Being a good person has nothing to do with religion and little with believe. Just like that you can show in a movie in the same way how damaging and diabolic it is to believe in god or Jesus or anything, because believers can create a lot of hatred, intolerance, ignorance, abuse, even war – by the way I never heard of nonbelievers starting a war over their non-believe. In fact, trying to force a certain believe on others, like the film does, that's already a sin. Jesus stands for tolerance. This movie is just propaganda for the contrary.
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rhall-4468020 March 2015From an innocuous beginning, to a climax that left me speechless, this movie did not disappoint. The many characters were all real, believable people. Kudos to Bozworth, Sorvino, and Astin for their portrayals. In Addition to them, seeing Lee Majors in this was a pleasant surprise. Cybill Shepard did a good job as his reluctant and grieving wife. As for the brothers in the poor black family, you will not be able to forget Pretty Boy and Kriminal. If you know someone who has returned from combat in the last 20 years, this has a man that even a WW2 generation can relate. Great camera work on the bridge scenes, hospital locale, and nice overhead shots of the Windy City. Worth the time and money to see!
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sdg-2902929 March 2015This was a great movie and it is encouraging that there are more Christians in Hollywood then originally thought just that the ones that aren't are the loudest. I read a post that said there was only one black guy in the movie, once again about race and ask which race is perpetuating it. Anyway check the cast on IMDb and you will see that there are more black then one I can think of 6 with out looking. The movie was great so I recommend everyone with and open mind to see it for what it is. Propaganda? Propaganda is trying to make you think one way this movie is trying to tell you about the cross and let you decide which way you want to think.
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This movie provokes a comparison with "God is (not) dead" (GIND) which arguably had a similar message. However, while GIND tried to convince us intellectually that faith is good, Do You Believe? (DYB) targets our emotions, which makes much more sense. You cannot win the argument for god intellectually, given that there is neither measurable evidence nor logical support for a deity. Philosophers have tried for centuries and failed.
Unfortunately DYB uses one trick GIND already used before: in both movies the non-believers were depicted as cold, rational, and dead hearted. (let's face it, the non-believer in GIND was a a real asshole). This is not only unrealistic but quite unfair, not the least because the non-believers hardly had a say.
I wonder whether this movie represents Christians realistically: by and large, they were a sorry lot. Either homeless, ex-criminals, cash-strapped, or low-middle class folks who really needed some divine help to make ends meet. Those who were better off were an older couple who lost their child, or a pastor and his wife who suffered from infertility. As a non-religious person I constantly thought "yeah, please help them, god, they really need a hand!". Sure enough, some of the characters were suicidal. While all this misery is obviously not quite true for the majority of American Christians it certainly reflects the state of religious people on a global scale: the more miserable people's lives are, the more religious they are. Not surprisingly, the two secular protagonists were a lawyer and a doctor, well-off educated folks who do not depend on their religion to solve their rather mundane problems.
Believers will like that the independent histories of a dozen people have all their stories joined in the grand finale, almost magically as if the strings had been pulled by god himself. There is even a happy ending, with the cancer patient magically cured, the childless couple ending up with a baby girl, and the suicidal singles finding each other. But I always wonder why a god can't do his magic without killing a bunch of innocent bystanders along the way. For an almighty, merciful god this would only require a click of his fingers. But as believers have known all along — subtle is the Lord !
PS: the actors did a great job. All of them were truly credible even if the screenplay had too many quirks for my taste. -
strangenstein28 March 2015It's not easy pulling off an anthology movie, Christian-themed or not. The task of writing multiple stories, giving time for each character to grow, then bringing them all together for a believable climax seems to fail more often than not. Do You Believe? does an excellent job of creating multiple characters/story lines I cared about!
The acting is solid throughout, with my biggest compliment (and surprise) going to Brian Bosworth. His character's innate warmth resonates in every scene he's in. It's not a big, flashy part but it suits his talents well and he nails it. Ted McGinley also scores high marks as a pastor who just wants to do the right thing.
As I mentioned earlier, pulling off an anthology film is not an easy task and yes, there will be some who'll say the ending is clichéd, having all these characters intersect. But that's the point! God wants a personal relationship with all of us and He can use our lives however He sees fit. If you're a Christian, you'll get it. If not, give the movie a chance and see where it leads your heart. -
I am glad that Christian films are being made in Hollywood. Someone needs to take greater care that the message and the Scriptures quoted have some exposition. If you begin with a quote from James, it is best to make sure that the film uses that Scripture effectively and clearly. This movie pulls together too many characters and ends with yet another accident. Let us hope that more films will be made that cohesively and clearly share the Gospel message. If I had been the producer or director of this film I would have featured a story that revolved around and had as its focal point the little girl and her mom living out of their car. Also please be warned that there are violent scenes with what might best be described as thugs.
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mishaqt19 March 2015I have to admit it started a little slow at first, but loved it! It has some great messages and themes throughout and great acting! Bring the Kleenex! I saw this at an early screening sponsored by Pureflix and I thought it was fantastic. I saw the unfinished cut and will go see it again. I can't wait to see the finished product. People from all walks of life should appreciate the truth and honesty portrayed in the film.I don't like when people immediately dismiss a film because of its Christian views and say things like its cheesy. No, it's truth and a lot of people don't like to have the facts right in front of them. I hope God uses this film to touch a lot of people's hearts and get them to begin asking themselves the question, "Do you believe?"
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CleveMan6623 March 2015It's difficult to credibly review a faith-based film. No matter what you say/write, people will assume that your opinion, whether positive or negative, is unduly influenced by your own personal religious convictions, whether pro or con. Anyone who sees a lot of movies for the purpose of reviewing them will inevitably feel compelled to see a movie that he or she didn't really want to see. The reviewer's obligation, however, is the same whether he/she wanted to see the movie or not – to be as open-minded and objective as possible and judge the movie fairly based on entertainment value alone. In fact, that's part of the joy in reviewing movies – being pleasantly surprised, coming across an undiscovered gem – and telling others about it, so they can consider seeing that movie and maybe have a similarly positive experience. Having said all that, I went to see "Do You Believe?" (PG-13, 1:55) without any agenda to trash it or praise it, but to judge it on entertainment value alone, which is what I'm about to do
From the producers of 2014's "God's Not Dead", "Do You Believe?" asks the title's question – and the follow-up question: if so, what do you do about it? – in a variety of ways. The film is part sermon, part morality play and part human drama which follows the stories of 12 Chicagoans as they are each forced to answer one or both of those questions, depending on where each is in his/her spiritual journey and whether he or she responds positively or negatively to the Christian message, as presented. That message is the mainstream evangelical Christian message of making a conscious decision to repent of your sins and trust Jesus Christ for your salvation. But the movie isn't just about getting "saved". In asking that second question, the movie takes a strong stand that a sincere belief in Christ requires the commitment of a changed life that follows the example set by Jesus in the Bible, as much as humanly possible.
The movie's main character, Pastor Matthew (Ted McGinley) is asked that first question by a street preacher named Malachi (Delroy Lindo), answers in the affirmative, and then gets the follow-up question, which makes him wonder whether his faith in God is being sufficiently demonstrated in the things he does. The point is hammered home dramatically when Matthew witnesses Malachi confront four young black men stealing a van and refusing to back down when the gang's leader, known as Kriminal (Senyo Amoaku) points a gun at Malachi's head and threatens him before driving off. Matthew isn't the only one affected by this scene. Kriminal's younger brother, Pretty Boy (Shwayze), sitting in the passenger seat of that van, wonders aloud if Malachi might be right. Matthew gives a sermon in which he challenges his spiritual flock not only to believe in the Gospel intellectually, but to do something about it. This sermon, and the small wooden crosses everyone in the church that night received, set into motion a series of events that affect all the movie's main characters.
The lives of these 12 people intersect, much the way that the lives of several Angelinos intersected in 2006's Best Picture Oscar Winner, "Crash". Pretty Boy literally stumbles into the church as that sermon is in progress and is invited into the sanctuary by Joe (Brian Bosworth), a gentle giant of a man who tells P.B., "I've been where you are." Joe had earlier shown the sincerity of his faith by inviting a homeless woman named Samantha (Mira Sorvino) and her young daughter Lily (Makenzie Moss) to stay at his place for the night. Later in the movie, J.D. and Teri (Lee Majors and Cybill Shepherd), still grieving the tragic loss of their daughter, also meet and reach out to Samantha and Lily. Meanwhile, Pastor Matthew and his wife (Tracy Lindsey Melchior) similarly reach out to a homeless pregnant teenager (Madison Pettis). An EMT (Liam Matthews) reaches out on the job and shares his faith with a dying man and won't apologize to the widow, for which Bobby's wife (Valerie Dominquez) criticizes him and the widow's lawyer (Andrea Logan White) sues him. Rounding out the main cast are a Marine (Joseph Julian Soria) whose tour in Afghanistan left him with a bad case of PTSD and a young suicidal woman (Alexa PenaVega) who reach out to each other, while Dr. Farell (Sean Astin), the token atheist/agnostic in the story, watches, participates in and reacts to many of the movie's goings-on with disgust.
"Do You Believe?" is a surprisingly entertaining piece of propaganda. The movie carries a clear message and doesn't try to hide its agenda, but presents some of the non-believers as one-dimensional caricatures, much like the film's producers did in "God's Not Dead", but the most of the characters are a bit more nuanced in this film. We do see non-believers do good things, and we see believers struggling to do the right thing, and not always making the best choices. What helps sell all this is the most talented, experienced and well-known group of actors that I've ever seen in a faith-based film. Among others, this cast includes an Oscar winner (Sorvino), the star of several classic movies (Astin, from "The Goonies", "Rudy" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy), a very accomplished movie and TV actor (Lindo), actors whose TV careers span most of the past six decades (McGinley, Shepherd and Majors) and a former NFL player (Bosworth). The script weaves together all the characters' stories brilliantly. Almost every character I mentioned above interacts with at least three of the others and the action culminates in a surprisingly dramatic third act. There's a bit of melodrama here and an intentionally one-sided message which dismisses all other points of view, but this is still a pretty entertaining film. "B" -
anymajordude-3978317 December 2021This is a good movie in the sense that it's just more dogmatic rubbish that will help make religion obsolete and make the world a more secular, logical, sensible place for future generations...
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Barnyard328 March 2015This is a movie about how living out the Christian faith looks like. It's not sugar-coated, nor is it unrealistic. It's about real people in a real world. In this movie, we have many lives that are intertwined, with the common factor being the Cross.
I especially appreciate how this story makes you take a real look at what you believe about Christ. There are hard choices to make - and not without sacrifice.
My wife says this is a minimum of a "5-Kleenex" movie, mainly to be used at the end. This is when all of their stories come together in a spectacular final scene.
Everyone should watch this one, and buy it to watch it again. -
Do you believe's story is set at an intersection which five stories metaphorically and literally collided. Do you believe's thesis is about real faith is about action. A preacher's sermon about faith without action is no faith at all sets the movie's characters into motion. Of the five stories, some characters and sub plots are lame while the other characters/plots are intriguing. The characters' acts of faith and actions have a cause and effect with others. Displays of sacrifice and compassion for the undeserving. Characters die, others heal, and others become changed. People all fit in with a greater plan. The questions of random occurrences vs God's design, a miracle or unexplained causes the viewer to ask Do You Believe? I give Do You Believe? A six out of ten, while my wife say 8. A seven out of 10.
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bennylivingston11 March 2017This movie goes on the list of "another cheese Christian movie." To me this one is full of cliché lines, predictable plots, and a complete rip off of the movie Crash staring Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock. The only redeeming thing about this movie is that it has Sean Austin in it. The only actor who can act and has made a great name for himself in Hollywood, with his most famous roll, Sam in the Lord Of The Rings. I Don't Believe I wasted my time.