God’s Not Dead *
Dir: Harold
Cronk. With: Shane Harper, Kevin Sorbo, David A. R. White. 113 mins. Cert: PG
Rush-released for Easter,
this warped evangelist item – a perturbing US sleeper hit – proceeds from a
semi-credible dramatic framework in initiating a debate between a pious student
(Shane Harper) and his atheist professor (erstwhile Hercules Kevin Sorbo, an
unlikely proponent of Bertrand Russell). The multi-stranded content lurking
beneath its soft rock and sundappled telemovie sheen, however, veers from the
suspect (see the would-be Christian beaten by her Muslim father!) to the
outright hateful: by the jawdropping climax, wherein a preacher is effectively
granted divine right to mow down non-believers, “doing God’s work” has become
indistinguishable from Grand Theft Auto.
Ban this sick filth.
God's Not Dead opens in selected cinemas from today.
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