Rotten Tomatoes: 18% Of course it's not fair to judge "faith-based" movies in the same critical terms as the ones that get millions of marketing dollars thrown at them, but in its starry looking cast, Do You Believe basically misrepresents itself as something loftier than what it actually is. And besides, if it has the power of God on its side, surely it would be good enough to defy all negative criticism? Well, no. Call me a smiting waiting to happen, but Do You Believe is an obnoxiously irrelevant melodrama that exists on the same sort of plane as the Susan Boyle starring The Christmas Candle from 2013. In other words, it's watchable if you really can't find the remote, but if you're looking for any indicators of traditional filmic quality, you'e in the wrong place. In its complex inter-weaving narrative, the film obviously has aspirations to follow Crash or Magnolia, with the idea of strangers all converging with one bridging element (spoiler alert, it's God). But it's limited painfully by its agenda to convert the converted (because there's no way anyone is buying God's love off the back of anything this boring).
