I Believe

Poor acting, writing and producing aside, this film doesn't need top rated actors and crew to have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I feel sad for the naysayers that can't get past the superficial, preventing them from experiencing the presence of God, the truth in His word and the miraculous healing power of Jesus. Oh, ye of little faith.

Accidentally started watching on YouTube. I'm a believer, but find most Christian movies are not very well done. Being a long time foreign film watcher and having seen so many well acted movies I am spoiled. But now I am trying to get away from the darkness and R ratings. The acting in this is often wooden, and the script is not that great. But the little boy, even though he is not a great actor, brings a sweetness to the film. And Wilfred Brimley as the laid back down to earth pastor is endearing, as is the bookstore owner. It is simplistic and non-believers will probably laugh but I liked it.

I loved this movie and shed buckets of tears while watching it but I am dying of cancer so that may have been a factor.

I also loved Wilford Brimley's pastor in it, always a favourite character actor and glad to see his image redeemed after his creepy role in The Firm.

Reviews on this movie will be mixed I'm sure - or maybe just a lot of 1s and a lot of 10s. I noticed a few flaws but I didn't let it spoil the experience for me. Can't wait to watch it again before my rental time runs out - wish I'd bought it instead.

Still might . . .

I Believe Movie Review "I Believe" is a Christin film from 2017 and it centers around a nine year old named Brian who claims to supernatural encounter with God and he resolves to learn more about Christianity despite the wishes of his father who is and Atheist newscaster. When my mom and I first watched this movie my mother described the ending as well as the film overall as hokey or as more artificial and hard to believe. I had to agree with this description since God was presented in a way that once Brian prayed to God, God would immediately answer the prayer and perform a miracle or place a sign. Which as we know is not a very typical occurrence in normal life.

However, the film definitely has merit in it's inspiring portrayal of Brian being a believer who never backs down from his beliefs. I also think that the film is also balanced by showing Brian and his father being at odds to represent how some families are divided by religion. The film has attitude awareness by seeming to cater to simpler demographic of young children or unbelting people. The film also shows the dignity of the human person by treating the characters in the movie that believe in God well by healing them and showing them respecting others. The film is truth filled by portraying accurate statues of Jesus and a few churches. One of the main things in the film that I thought were skillfully developed was the lighting effects which would change to represent God performing miracles. The plot point that Brian's dad was an atheist is more relevant to my experiences because I went to public high school and there were students who were atheist.

This movie was poorly acted, unrealistic in all things I'm not talking about the miracles. A few examples: a little boy who roams the city alone, the things they study in school/homework, then throw in the poor acting with the first miracle I was like really???? I just wanted to watch a heartfelt movie that was appropriate for kids to watch, but this did not hold my interest, even my kids aged 10 and 13 didn't think much of it.