And taking guidance from a fellow skeptic on the newspaper staff ( Brett Rice) and an editor/believer ( Mike Pniewski), decides to follow the edict taped to the newsroom wall. Lee cannot accept her rejection of their shared atheism. She doesn’t believe in coincidences, or in the odds that a crowded restaurant in any big city would have one person who knows the Heimlich maneuver. Strobel (one-and-only “Swimfan” Erika Christiansen) believes her. A nurse, dining at the restaurant, intervenes.īut don’t credit Nurse Alfie Davis ( L.
He even got a book out of it.Īt a celebratory dinner, his daughter ( Haley Rosenwasser) almost chokes to death. In the film, Strobel ( Mike Vogel of “The Help” and TV’s “Under the Dome”) is a rising star at the 1980s Chicago Tribune, top dog on the paper’s reporting on Ford’s exploding gas-tank econo-box, the Pinto. The “case” he makes is all rhetorical tricks aimed at the gullible, and seriously unconvincing. If it “really happened,” well…īut the film, based on Strobel’s book, is so emotionally flat and slow that it forces you to pick up on its ridiculous circular logic and pick apart the half-hearted “reporting” and questioning its hero undertakes. An accomplished, skeptical journalist investigates the “case” for Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead as a means of turning his just-found-Jesus wife away from religion.
Dry, unemotional and - considering the subject matter - uninspiring, Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” is a faith-based drama about one atheist’s research-driven conversion to Christianity.
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