God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

God's Not Dead- A Light in Darkness feels different from the first two. Instead of the whole "Christians vs. The world" courtroom battle vibe, it focuses more on Reverend Dave and the fallout after his church burns down. Most of the movie is about whether he can rebuild, and in the process, it becomes less about winning arguments and more about dealing with grief, doubt, and fractured relationships. What I liked is that it tries to be more personal. Dave isn't just the confident preacher anymore - he's angry, questioning, and you can tell the story wants to show that faith isn't always neat and triumphant. That makes it more watchable than the first two. The downside is that it's still pretty heavy-handed. The dialogue can sound more like a sermon than a conversation, and the attempts at nuance don't always land. Sometimes it feels like the movie is afraid to let things just be complicated. On top of that, the pacing drags and some performances don't sell the emotional weight. I'd say it's the most introspective of the trilogy, but it's still stuck in that "preaching to the choir" mode. If you're already into faith-based movies, it'll resonate more, but as a straight-up drama it doesn't hold up.

This is easily the worst of the series, but I still loved it! Part 3 didn't have as much unintentional comedy as the first two, but it was still damn near a laugh-a-minute escapade of truly incompetent filmmaking.

Much like the previous entries in this series, Light in a Darkness is a self-congratulatory celebration of the victimhood of christian persecution at the hands of evil secular societies. I imagine that evangelicals across the nation pleasure themselves without guilt while watching this and pretending that the premise is even remotely plausible. I get the feeling that they're unable to appreciate this film the way Zeus intended: as a movie so bad that it's good.

I'd recommend this to pretty much anyone who enjoys bad films. If you liked The Room, you'll love the GND movies!

I liked the 1st and 2nd one better. Too much drama in this one and everything just dragged on.

Poorly directed. The actors seem fine, maybe a little stiff, but the director seemed very confused.

Odd subplots that don't need to be in there. Scenes and characters that don't add anything. Boring and pointless conversations that don't lead anywhere.

If the goal was to be as religiously vague as possible then...well done.

They were trying to be as inclusive as possible to not scare off potential non-Christian viewers and I guess the way that happens is they decide to take all genuine conflict out of the story and you end up with a boring lump that's equivalent to opening a random page in the Bible and trying to find some masterful meaning out of an incomplete thought.

Whatever. And the ending is atrocious

With a new director the series now walks in a better new path. While the first two movie had stereotypical characters, especially regarding the government and atheists are abandoned. This time there are no "good or bad" sides since everyone had an argument to present. This film attempts to deal with the extent of faith which could mean that the studio itself could be apologizing for the first two movies. But the movie can still be shortened by removing a few aspects that drag on and it still cherry picks legal events to present its thesis. The movie is rough around the edges but it stands above its predecessors and thus worth to watch.