First the character of Superman in “Batman v Superman,” and now this movie; is there a hypocrisy contest going on that I’m unaware of?

After mentioning Bible verses in a class where a student asked a specific question about Jesus, high school history teacher Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) finds herself in the middle of a court case that could destroy her life.

The movie is nothing more than a hypocritical and propagandist movie about how religious intolerance is wrong, while simultaneously showing intolerance to atheists. Every Christian in this movie is compassionate, reasonable, and flawless while every atheist in the movie is diabolical, callous, and antagonizing. The lack of subtlety is so blatant that when the prosecuting lawyer (Ray Wise) is first introduced, malevolent music plays in the same manner that the Imperial March plays for Darth Vader when he arrives aboard the Death Star in “Return of the Jedi.”

Even if you were to overlook the blatant hypocrisy that arises from the character presentation, the movie is still extremely contradictory. It acts as a potential warning of an event that could possibly occur. The problem is that the story of the movie is not only illogical on its own, but is looked at from such a black and white standpoint, which defeats every iota of realism.

The movie is also, for some reason, littered with random subplots involving characters from the last movie who have no reason to be present. The inclusion of Reverend Jude (Benjamin Onyango) is particularly off because everything he says and does is played for comic relief when the movie is trying to present itself as a serious drama. It would be the equivalent of having the late George Kennedy’s “The Naked Gun” character in “Saving Private Ryan.” The movie goes so far with this that there is even bouncy, comical music playing when Jude first shows back up.

Almost every person who worked on this movie did a terrible job. Director Harold Cronk can’t direct actors to save his life, and his camera shots are all pedestrian, at best. The writing for this movie is complete garbage. The actors all do horrible jobs, with the exception of Ray Wise and Ernie Hudson. Wise and Hudson were at least smart enough to know to make their performance schlock because that’s what their characters were.

There is only one positive thing I can say about the movie. This one compliment, ironically, just proves how bad the movie is. How bad must the movie be for someone to say, “Well, at least it was only offensive to two social groups this time,” as a good thing?

“God’s Not Dead 2” is a two-hour long victim complex. The movie fails as a movie that is trying to relay a message and as just a movie, failing to provide even below average work from its creative team, and ending up making it be contradictory to its message. In all honesty, this movie does for religious tolerance what a Michael Bay movie does for feminism.

Final Grade: F