Do You Believe? Is kind of like Magnolia without the raining frogs, good music or characters that you actually worry and care about.
It's the tale of a preacher who meets a street prophet who shakes him to the core.
And then you realize, hey, that street priest is Delroy Lindo and wow, the cast of this movie and the next thing you know, you've wasted an entire 115 minutes watching this.
The creators of God's Not Dead got together a truly heavenly cast for this movie that's kind of like Crash because it also has a car crash in it.
There's Sean Astin as a kindly doctor, just holding out until he can get famous again when a monster from the Upside Down disembowels him! Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino! Alexa PenaVega from Spy Kids! Shark jumper Ted McGinley as that priest who has lost his faith! Cybill Shepherd, certainly in a place she never saw herself being in! Lee Majors, our reason for watching so many movies that we would have never watched if we weren't doing a week of films in his honor! Brian Bosworth, who certainly deserves better! A rapper named Shwayze!
Look, I realize that a kid who grew up with apeirophobia - fear of eternity - and ouranophobia - fear of heaven - is not going to be the audience for this movie. Yet I know that Christian cinema can make astounding stuff like Ron Ormond's films and A Thief In the Night. Why do contemporary Pure Flix movies play it so safe?
Do You Believe?
2015
Action / Drama
Do You Believe?
2015
Action / Drama
Plot summary
A dozen different souls, all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ, even if they don't yet believe it. When a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a faith-fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate. More than a movie, it's a question we all must answer in our lifetimes: DO YOU BELIEVE?
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Do you believe in the power of the cross?
Fast paced with solid acting. DO YOU BELIEVE? is directed by Jonathan M. Gunn and is a Christian based film with a multiple-narrative that intersects the lives of a handful of very different people, who will be introduced to a life changing challenge of faith. A Detroit minister named Matthew(Ted McGinley)is reminded by a street corner preacher dragging a cross, that true belief is sustained with action. His barren wife(Tracy Melchior) takes in a pregnant runaway(Madison Pettis). A homeless mother(Mira Sorvino) with a charming little daughter(Makenie Moss)are given the shelter of a church janitor's(Brian Bosworth)humble apartment. An EMT(Liam Matthews)is about to lose his job for talking about Jesus to a dying man. And an aging couple played by Cybil Shepard and Lee Majors soon begin living life again after the loss of a daughter. A young man(Joseph Julian Soria)suffering PTSD, home from the military along with a petty criminal(Shwayze)join others that find hope and faith believing in the blood stained cross of Jesus Christ. The finale tries to bring closure to each person's scenario with a massive traffic accident.
To me the best acting comes from Bosworth and Miss Moss. Others featured: Sean Astin, Logan White, Alexia PenaVega and Valarie Dominguez.
Deeply moving or deeply troubling?
There 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.