I'm a Christian who loves movies. My favorite movie of all time is Pasolini's The Gospel According To St. Matthew- and I love the Biblical films from the 50s and 60s, The Prince of Egypt, and The Passion of the Christ, to name a few. In fact, I'm 26 and still love VeggieTales.
While movies like these are masterpieces, often when Christians make movies, they are pretty bad. I've already critiqued movies like God's Not Dead, A Matter of Faith, Unplanned, Loving The Bad Man, and the like.
This is sometimes hard to admit- most of my friends are from church, and telling a Christian friend that a religious movie is bad can cause gasps and "but the message is so good!" Well, spreading The Gospel can often be done in much better and entertaining ways. (See my reverse recommendations below.)
Enter movies like Ring The Bell, a movie that I would disappoint others by not liking. I saw this a few days after my sister passed away, and while I was at school for the first time 3 hours away from home. Since it was a Christian film and intended to be uplifting, I told myself that I liked it.
The plot follows a sports agent who wants to recruit a baseball star. The movie hardly has to do with that though. The agent is a non-believer, and in the small town, everyone is a Christian, and they hope that the agent finds Jesus and rings the bell in the middle of town to show a proclamation of faith.
If you've seen a Christian film like God's Not Dead, you know what to expect with this movie. The agent is an atheist, he's a jerk to the Christians, (I think, I haven't seen this in 7 years), everyone has to be a Christian for the movie to have a happy ending, the filmmaking is shoddy, the acting mediocre, etc.
That's all I can really say about this low budget, low quality, and forgettable movie. It's an atheist-bashing sermon, and that's not a movie.
Reverse Recommendations: To see better movies with religious themes apart from Biblical epics, watch movies like: The Apostle, Silence, Hacksaw Ridge, Lilies of the Field, Amazing Grace (with Aretha Franklin), Say Amen Somebody, Billy, Luther, Francis of Assisi, Bruce Almighty, Narnia, Soul Surfer, etc.
