RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Teresa Randle I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Very Christian but definitely not cringy. I would happily show this to my friends, Christian or non Christian. All the characters were believable, the acting was good especially Lilly. what a delight to see Lee Majors and Cybill Sheppherd again. I was determined not to cry but some of the scenes were so lovely and touching that I ended up a happy snivelling wreck. Thank you guys for another brilliant film!

corrientes123 This movie provokes a comparison with "God is (not) dead" (GIND) which arguably had a similar message. However, while GIND tried to convince us intellectually that faith is good, Do You Believe? (DYB) targets our emotions, which makes much more sense. You cannot win the argument for god intellectually, given that there is neither measurable evidence nor logical support for a deity. Philosophers have tried for centuries and failed.Unfortunately DYB uses one trick GIND already used before: in both movies the non-believers were depicted as cold, rational, and dead hearted. (let's face it, the non-believer in GIND was a a real asshole). This is not only unrealistic but quite unfair, not the least because the non-believers hardly had a say.I wonder whether this movie represents Christians realistically: by and large, they were a sorry lot. Either homeless, ex-criminals, cash-strapped, or low-middle class folks who really needed some divine help to make ends meet. Those who were better off were an older couple who lost their child, or a pastor and his wife who suffered from infertility. As a non-religious person I constantly thought "yeah, please help them, god, they really need a hand!". Sure enough, some of the characters were suicidal. While all this misery is obviously not quite true for the majority of American Christians it certainly reflects the state of religious people on a global scale: the more miserable people's lives are, the more religious they are. Not surprisingly, the two secular protagonists were a lawyer and a doctor, well-off educated folks who do not depend on their religion to solve their rather mundane problems.Believers will like that the independent histories of a dozen people have all their stories joined in the grand finale, almost magically as if the strings had been pulled by god himself. There is even a happy ending, with the cancer patient magically cured, the childless couple ending up with a baby girl, and the suicidal singles finding each other. But I always wonder why a god can't do his magic without killing a bunch of innocent bystanders along the way. For an almighty, merciful god this would only require a click of his fingers. But as believers have known all along — subtle is the Lord…!PS: the actors did a great job. All of them were truly credible even if the screenplay had too many quirks for my taste.

brycebachelder-71389 I'm in ministry, and I'm all about using art to share the gospel... but this movie is just not good. The writing's bad, the acting is stiff, and the concept is pretty much a less interesting Christian version of "Crash". It also played into some racially insensitive stereotypes: the criminals were all black, the black mother gave threats of "whoopins", the unmarried pregnant girl was Latina, and all the good guys were white. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say these things were unintentional by the writers, but the racial undertones were still obvious to those paying attention. It seems the message of the movie is trying to reach non-Christians, but it's so full of "Christianese" language and phrases that the only people who will have any idea what the heck they're talking about are those who already believe. I'm not against using film and all art forms to proclaim Jesus, but I am against doing it badly. Christians need to be creative and original, and not just emulate (poorly) what is being done in the "secular" movie and music industries. If we are to hold ourselves to higher standards throughout life, let's hold ourselves to higher standards when it comes to making art as well.

shandy golez Do You Believe movie has a solid spine. I've seen plenty of films that uses the style of interweaving stories. It seems like creating a movie like that has to be thought out well for it not to have unnecessary scenes. It makes sense, the form contributes to the theme of the story. It's done very subtly too. For me, there weren't awkward moment where a scene feels forced to have a connection on two or three characters. I was hooked while watching the entire movie for the timing was right and there were no dull moments. Each characters got me caring for them. They are realistic. There are many touching moments that got me crying I must say. One of the scenes I like are when we meet the man carrying a cross on a street who one would think will be wronged by what seem like 'thugs' and then we meet P.B. and his brother Kriminal for the first time, and I really liked P.B's face after hearing about God, that was a good one. I kept looking out or wanting know what would happen next for the lives of these people. Nearing the end of the film, the bridge scene was executed very well! Very good story over-all. Production value wise it is very good too. Good shots, editing, sound and etc. it is a well done movie. I loved it.