The Worst Film Ever

Excellent but underrated film

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Do You Believe from the same folks who gave us the God's Not Dead movies and both of those take their model from those secular films, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and most of all Crash. It's Crash with a Christian twist to it. The center character is a street preacher who runs into minister Ted McGinley and asks a simple question, Do You Believe?Meaning are you really believing or just going through the motions? The actions of the various characters whose lives intersect at various points in the film. In the end nearly the entire cast is involved in a multiple vehicle crash on a city bridge. That climax is gripping and well staged.In this cast the two performances that stand out are Madison Pettis as the homeless and pregnant teen taken in by Ted McGinley and Shwayze as a young gangbanger who takes to heart the words of Delroy Lindo.I'm in agreement with the reviewer who said that the characters are a bit too goody goody. That even the bad ones for the most part aren't really that bad. Makes it a bit hard to swallow the plot premises.Still for a Christian film it's not bad entertainment.

A heart warming story of true devotion to the message of Christ and the Cross...a dozen lives intersect at a great illuminated cross in some unnamed city...actually well acted...Brian Bosworth is quite good as Joe, the dying ex con, and Lee Majors and Cybill Shepard are great as the somewhat frumpy yet lovable couple grieving the loss of their daughter...Mira Sorvino puts in a credible effort as a struggling homeless widowed mom struggling to keep a roof over her daughter's head and food in her tummy. The real gem in this movie, though, is Makenzie Moss...utterly adorable, she has that open honesty that only a child can engender...not sure what the negative reviewers are griping about...guess some people just aren't happy, and wish no one else was either...all in all a very good movie

This movie provokes a comparison with "God is (not) dead" (GIND) which arguably had a similar message. However, while GIND tried to convince us intellectually that faith is good, Do You Believe? (DYB) targets our emotions, which makes much more sense. You cannot win the argument for god intellectually, given that there is neither measurable evidence nor logical support for a deity. Philosophers have tried for centuries and failed.Unfortunately DYB uses one trick GIND already used before: in both movies the non-believers were depicted as cold, rational, and dead hearted. (let's face it, the non-believer in GIND was a a real asshole). This is not only unrealistic but quite unfair, not the least because the non-believers hardly had a say.I wonder whether this movie represents Christians realistically: by and large, they were a sorry lot. Either homeless, ex-criminals, cash-strapped, or low-middle class folks who really needed some divine help to make ends meet. Those who were better off were an older couple who lost their child, or a pastor and his wife who suffered from infertility. As a non-religious person I constantly thought "yeah, please help them, god, they really need a hand!". Sure enough, some of the characters were suicidal. While all this misery is obviously not quite true for the majority of American Christians it certainly reflects the state of religious people on a global scale: the more miserable people's lives are, the more religious they are. Not surprisingly, the two secular protagonists were a lawyer and a doctor, well-off educated folks who do not depend on their religion to solve their rather mundane problems.Believers will like that the independent histories of a dozen people have all their stories joined in the grand finale, almost magically as if the strings had been pulled by god himself. There is even a happy ending, with the cancer patient magically cured, the childless couple ending up with a baby girl, and the suicidal singles finding each other. But I always wonder why a god can't do his magic without killing a bunch of innocent bystanders along the way. For an almighty, merciful god this would only require a click of his fingers. But as believers have known all along — subtle is the Lord…!PS: the actors did a great job. All of them were truly credible even if the screenplay had too many quirks for my taste.

First of all, don't get me wrong. God's Not Dead was a very good movie and I plan to see the sequel. However I stumbled upon Do You Believe and this movie was a couple of steps higher in my opinion. Seeing a pastor struggle with his own faith, seeing how Christians can and should care for each other and for the world, seeing people discover faith, or rediscover gave me hope. God's Not Dead was like an appetizer or conversation starter. Do You Believe is the main course, with more structure, more believable characters. Mira Sorvino's single mother character is compelling. Sean Astin --who plays an evangelist in Woodlawn -- is a callous jerk of a doctor in this movie. And I loved seeing Cybil Shepherd and Lee Majors back on the screen. I liked this movie so much I offered to lead a bible study at my church around it. I have the curriculum. We'll start after Christmas. Join me