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While I don't care for the OP's attitude, there are a few other reasons to call this film obtuse. It does, in fact, dumb down its source material. I understand that this is a narrative film about Strobel's life, and not really a direct adaptation of the book, but it fails so hard at conveying Strobel's actual ideas. (At least, I hope it does. It's been years since I've perused the book.) There's at least one character in the film that tries to pass off a simplified version of Pascal's wager as original thought, a massive peeve of mine. There is acknowledgment of the presence of bias and lack of counter-perspective, but this is never actually explored. The film legit ends with "Sorry god, you win," and Strobel finally gives in simply because he's found holes in all of his own arguments against the historical existence of christ. The historical existence of christ is an entirely separate issue from the "come to jesus" story present in the film, which is so obviously tacked on because pureflix wanted a narrative and not a compelling documentary. I'm sure they also wanted to deify Strobel.
I honestly don't understand why the evangelical community isn't lashing out against PureFlix for being boring, misinformed, and exploitative. I am not a theist by any means, but my god would this piss me off if I was!
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