the audience applauded

Crappy film

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The Kevin Sorbo family is handsome enough and the acting is workmanlike; but the screenplay, the story, by Sorbo's wife Sam, is lame, stupid really. Dr. Sol Harkens is an author who is celebrated as the World's Greatest Atheist. He is funny and entertaining and aggressive, and he sells a lot of books. He is also a womanizer and an alcoholic, looking for trouble. And he finds it, in a predictable automobile crash and a predictable coma. He has a vision, a near death experience, wherein he talks to his son David, a beautiful boy who was taken to God before his ninth birthday, and due to which Sol has reacted by hating God. So, for starters, Harkens is not an atheist at all, he is a believer who is very angry at God for taking his son from him. But atheists do NOT hate God, atheists do not believe that God exists. No atheist whom I know became one because of an awful experience, they just finally - mostly in their late teens - reacted to the utter lack of evidence for God. Second, the atheists that Sol Harkens is caricaturing -- the New Atheists - are none of them womanizers or alcoholics (well, Hitchens liked to drink as I recall). And finally, the story seems to suggest that: if only atheists had near death experiences they would see God, see the error of their ways, and convert.It was entertaining enough, but lame, really lame. They should hire a few atheist consultants to see what they really think and believe.But honestly, the audience of this film is not atheists who need to convert, the audience is Christians who need to feel better about their spiritual beliefs. Faith is tricky, and it needs all the support that it can get.

Brainwashing rubbish! Is the usual response of atheist. All atheist do is twist words to fit their own needs (aka. Make themselves feel good). This is a fantastic movie with great acting. But you'll never hear of it due to God hating hollywood. Must see this movie!!

Whenever a Christian movie comes out a lot of anti Christian people give it bad ratings. Everyone should make up their own minds and not just look at these skewed ratings. What I wonder is why so many who don't like Christian movies bother to watch them if they really do. To me this movie was enjoyable and had an important message.

Reading the negative reviews I almost skipped the movie when it popped up on Amazon Prime. But with Sorbo, who I enjoyed in other movies, I gave it a chance. Glad I did. Good story, good acting, and well produced. Yes, it is a movie about faith and overcoming, but more than that it's worth watching and quite enjoyable.