Pastor Dave and Pastor Jude are in charge of the church of St. James. When a group of college students make a series of protests against the church, the college decides to close it, the thing that makes Dave and his friend Jude do whatever they can to rescue it from shutting down.
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.
The film heads in the right direction and conclusion, albeit one that might not appease those who still believe they're victims in some war to take away their religion. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, etc. - also Available)
Altogether, God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness means well, but it needs to drop the editorializing, streamline its story and let its message stand on its own.
The third chapter in the conservative Evangelical franchise known for its flabbergasting box office success might have learned some Christian humility. OK, not much humility. But on this map's legend, an inch equals a mile.
These movies are fundamentalist propaganda aimed at people who are convinced their religion is under attack in this country just because it doesn't exempt them from the Constitution.
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 whose side it's on.
It features all of the familiar elements from the two previous films: a persecution-complex, an 'us vs. them' attitude, and visions of the brave faithful going up against a hostile secular society.
