From its lecture on the conservative canard that separation of church and state is a myth on down, God's Not Dead 2 is a movie for Ralph Reed's Moral Majority, with all the entangled political baggage that comes with it.
Overview
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.
Director and cast
- Harold Cronk Director
- Jesse Metcalfe as Tom Endler
- Robin Givens as Principal Kinney
- Melissa Joan Hart as Grace Wesley
- Brad Heller as School Attorney
- David A.R. White as Rev. Dave
- Ernie Hudson as Judge Stennis
- Hayley Orrantia as Brooke Thawley
- Ray Wise as Pete Kane
- Pat Boone as Walter Wesley
- Fred Dalton Thompson as Senior Pastor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A torturous exercise in one-note proselytizing.
The audience is encouraged to assume that the widespread persecution of all Christians is at hand. In Arkansas.
"God's Not Dead 2" is filled with a sense of paranoiac persecution and seething resentment towards secular public schools, the ACLU, government interference and those who don't care for "Duck Dynasty."
The agenda here is front and center from start to finish, and while the actors do a yeoman's job in presenting their characters with aplomb, the entire film simply comes off as a two-hour, jazzed-up movie version of a sermon.
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