20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

7. Gods Not Dead 2

Worst Fims Of 2016
Pure Flix Entertainment

What is it about Christian film-making that seems to inherently preclude any real quality? It's not like there's no market for great evangelical films - particularly in America: if they were fed with something that even remotely aimed to be any good, it could make hundreds of millions without breaking sweat.

Instead, the Christian community are left to survive on militant attacks on atheism that pretend to be liberated, free-thinking celebrations of God's will and which are really no more than strange exercises in victim reinforcement.

In this atrocity, Hart's Christian teacher helps a grieving student with her faith and is then pilloried for teaching the word of God in a lesson, to the point she's hauled before the Supreme Court and told she must renounce her faith. What sort of garbage is that? The film's agenda seems not to be to celebrate God so much as demonise atheists to an unsubtle, cartoonish degree and it comes out like a shameless, grubby self-congratulatory masturbation session.

Which God would presumably be absolutely furious about.

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