A Matter of Faith (2014)

Just perfect...

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

The first must-see film of the year.

Clearly a film made by believers for those of faith. Since the majority of reviews here are from those who do not understand or knows God's love - I can see this story will not resonate with them. So, for those who have discover God's love and, hopefully, your love for Him then this be above science. My undergrad degree is chemistry so there is some that I disagree with, like time/evolution presentation. For those seeking an evangelistic tool "Risen" or God's Not Dead" would be better... The first is a "what if" scenario and the latter presents facts. If you are witnessing to a literary person, I recommend the novel: "The Other Side Of Courage." Oddly, an atheist friend taunted me into watching "A Matter Of Faith" and I recommend it to only those seeking inspirational entertainment. Non-believers clearly can't see or 'forgive' the concept of the story. I would have thought the film's title alone would discourage Humanists, hence minimizing the review slams presented here.

I watched this movie particularly because it received such a phenomenally low rating on IMDB. Most Christian movies take a lot of hits from atheists and agnostic and other pro-evolutionists, but this one seemed to distinguish itself with a full two points lower rating than the average Christian film. I had to see why!Now that I have watched the film, I am stunned -- because it really is very good. Perhaps it is because it is that good it hits a nerve for naysayers.It's a perfectly good film, good cinematography, good screenwriting, good acting and yes, it has a purpose to show that it is both unscientific and just plain wrong for schools and universities to teach evolution as if that were the only possibility. I heard someone say that it takes more faith for someone not to believe in God than it does to believe in God. That is true. Additionally, it takes more faith to believe in evolution and that humans came from apes and that trees, flowers, the sun, moon, stars, animals and humans came from nothing but an accident.Bravo to the filmmakers. Well done! P.S. I don't really know if this contained spoilers or not so I said yes just in case.

It beats me that films like this can get made in this day and age. Completely groundless propaganda by spacers who want to make up their own answers to the big questions. The bible is a book, like any other, and not necessarily true. "The Odyssey" predates the bible: should we believe that too? How are people intelligent enough to produce films able to come up with this drivel? Absolute hammy muck!

More often than not, religious films are suitable for a good laugh. "God's Not Dead" and "God's Club," for instance, were laughably bad in an enjoyable way for me. I've seen my fair share of Christian propaganda films, yet for SOME reason, "A Matter of Faith" became my most hated.The film follows the typical tropes you'd expect. Awkward dialogue, little to no knowledge of basic scientific fact, and forced running gags that lead nowhere and only serve to waste your time. It was good for a few laughs, but it all went downhill after the first half, and made me furious. The amount of misinformation and downright falsehoods this film spews about evolution is completely uncalled for, and falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.The main plot point is that the father, the creationist, wants to debate the professor, scientist, on evolution vs. creationism. The father dislikes that Rachel is learning about evolution and assumes that it teaches the origins of life.However, evolution does NOT teach the origins of life. Anyone with basic understanding of evolution will tell you that. The main idea is that living organisms evolve and adapt over millions of years through natural selection and other processes. Also, universities don't teach biblical creationism as fact because it's... well, not scientific. And, again, it has nothing to do with evolution.Thus, the main premise of the entire movie is completely pointless from the get-go.Rachel is a pitiful main character, and I honestly felt sorry for her. Actually, the movie is more about her father. She's just trying to go to class and learn biology, yet she's dragged around by her professor, dad, and a creepy guy named Evan into believing one thing or the other. In fact, she was mostly neutral and just wants to be left alone throughout the film. Instead, in the end, she (of course) reaffirms her faith and denounces evolution simply because *insert reason here*. By the end, Rachel completely changes her character and decides, "hey, I'm still a Christian and wanna date that creepy guy now."The professor is a bit condescending and seemed overly desperate to debate. The father was completely inconsiderate to his daughter's feelings on the matter. She pleaded him to stop several times, and he refused. Evan, the "good Christian boy," was just downright creepy. He was condescending to Rachel, and was unnaturally determined to help the father win the debate.And do I even need to speak about the ending? Words can't describe how cringe-inducing it was. Scientific falsehood after scientific falsehood, improper and laughably juvenile debating, resorting to feelings instead of research, etc.Plus, they assert that the Earth is only thousands of years old. Need I say more?