Let There Be Light (2017)

In 'Let There Be Light' Kevin Sorbo again hates himself some atheists, and so apparently does his wife Sam (who co-wrote and co-stars in this) and likely their children who also appear. Kevin plays a caricature of the 'New Atheist' professional atheist writer Dr. Sol Harkens, Harkens as a cross between well known atheist polemicists Christopher Hitchens and Dr. Richard Dawkins, and Sol because of Saul of Tarsus, as these kind of films like to hit you over the head with things. It turns out Harkins well known atheism is based all but entirely on resentment from the death of one of his sons from disease, and once he see's said son in vision after a near fatal car accident he very quickly changes his world view and reconnects with his ex wife and surviving children. Lazy, hardly convincing and mean spirited 'Let There Be Light' is executive produced by Sean Hannity who appears as himself, as does oddly Dionne Warwick, although she does not produce. There are a lot of weird little touches to this, including a recurring gage about an always absent doorman (which kind of works) and one about a 'sham-wow' type product which doesn't. There are also many, many references to ISIS, it's the films go to, and like every sane individual I of course oppose ISIS, however I do not share this films larger Islamophobia which is a subtext throughout but makes a strikingly shoehorned appearance very late in the proceedings. Also some really odd choices are made with Daniel Roebuck's performance, he gives a load of barley coded gay indicators, but then vocally expresses lust for Kevin's Russian model girlfriend, I suppose this is to mitigate the discomfort of the target audience. This is a 'dog whistle film' where you don't have to be a dog to hear the whistle. *1/2