God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

This one, taken on its own terms, isn’t bad in a TV-movie-fodder-as-parable way.

A lot of grappling happens. The community grapples. The characters grapple. People grapple alone, people grapple together. Grappling is more interesting to watch than certainty, any day of the week.

As handsomely mounted, TV-movie-quality cinema goes, “Light in Darkness” is at once the best looking, most coherent, and least histrionic of the franchise.

To its credit, this third GND installment earnestly attempts to give some degree of lip service to diverging perspectives on the socio-religious-political scale without too much proselytizing, although there’s never any question about who’s side it’s on.

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, directed by Michael Mason, is less strident than the two surprise hits that preceded it, but it still tells a programmatic story, rooted in presumptions.

It has to be said that “A Light in Darkness” is considerably better than the two movies that preceded it. Mason, in stark contrast to OG franchise director Harold Cronk, actually knows how to frame a shot like he’s ever actually seen a film before. Corbett also lends a real credibility to the scenes between Reverend Dave and his brother.

A Light In Darkness isn’t as offensive as the first film—it lacks the requisite misogyny and Islamophobia, and does a better job of looking like it’s almost a real movie—but it’s not far behind, an emblematic film for the foul moment.

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness is an inspirational drama that centers on Pastor Dave (David A.R. White) and the unimaginable tragedy he endures when his church, located on the grounds of the local university, is burned down. But his dreams of rebuilding the church face an unexpected setback when university officials reject his plans

I will bring God's Not Dead: A Light In Darkness out of the red and back into the yellow with my positive powers. Yippee.

I can't say this one was any better or worse than the other 2, I'm honestly giving this one the highest score of the three for being pretty much forgettable, but it still looses points for relying on the same damn song at the end. I know it's in the movies title, but seriously, can't they find a new song?

It's better than the other two, but it still fails to not preach to the choir, causing it to end up isolating non-Protestants.

Unlike the first two movies, the 3rd fortunately spends less time persecuting atheists and other non-Christian religious denominations in its attempt to treat Christians like the most persecuted people in the world. On the the downside it is still poorly written and poorly directed, and it serves no purpose other than to scare away any person who is potentially on the fence about Christianity.