If you are a fundamental Christian see this movie as you where going to church. You will feel the same. If you are uninteresting and neuter about the issue of God see it as a movie to kill your time. If you are an atheist....Well it depends of your character. You will laugh a lot or you will get furious.
The following is my opinion and may contains *SPOILERS*
This movie is bad written and suffers from character development. Firstly the philosophy professor does not teach philosophy by saying to his students that God's dead. That's contradicts the ideology of philosophy! And the arguments of the discussion are just quotes from famous people like Dawkins and Hawkings who they are not philosophers. The girlfriend of the protagonist is whining to him because of the challenge he has to face with the professor and finally breaks up with him, as if this was a big deal! Dean Cain is presented as a cruel business man or something who puts his carrier first and breaks up with his girlfriend when he finds out she has cancer. He is an evil atheist of course. The girlfriend of Dean Cain who is a journalist takes an interview from a TV show hunter. When she asks him (with an aggressive tone) about the killings of the Innocent animals that he commits, he responded that he kills the animals only for the food and that life is temporarily and that Jesus is internal. After this, she leaves with a satisfying smile on her face as if she was saying "ok,that's a good guy eventually". The Japanese guy and the Muslim girl change their religion and beliefs because of the protagonist's lecture?... I don't know!
By watching this movie you realize from the start that it doesn't cares about the story or the characters, but only for the blatant message. You can tell that especially by the ending. What happened with the journalist who had cancer? Did she die or not? Dean Cain found Jesus or not? What about the Muslim girl? Did she make out with the protagonist? What a about the professors wife? Did the Japanese guy get along with his father? It just ends ups with a lame concert and a message that God is awesome and everything and everybody is fine.
Another problem in the film is the title. It should have been "Jesus is not Dead" or "Christianity in America is not dead. It would have been more wise if the movie was about debating the issue of the existence of God in a philosophical way, rather that the straight message that Christianity is the closest thing to truth.
This movie is disgrace! It's cheesy, lame, poor, shallow, preachy, egoistic, and a direct propaganda that defines the spirit of filmmaking.
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