Rotten
There's remarkably little done with a premise snatched from high-concept heaven, adding yet another file to the growing cabinet of under-realized comedies.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Bruce Almighty
If you could be God for one week, what would you do?
2003 · 1h 41m · PG-13
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Tom Shadyac
Overview
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
Director and cast
- Tom Shadyac Director
- Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan
- Morgan Freeman as God
- Jennifer Aniston as Grace Connelly
- Philip Baker Hall as Jack Baylor
- Catherine Bell as Susan Ortega
- Lisa Ann Walter as Debbie
- Steve Carell as Evan Baxter
- Nora Dunn as Ally Loman
- Eddie Jemison as Bobby
- Paul Satterfield as Dallas Coleman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mr. Carrey gets some of his biggest laughs in years by playing up the darker side of his character's small-mindedness.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap.
John Powers, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Bruce takes over for the vacationing deity, but despite an initial surge of jolly, somewhat cruel chaos (as when he forces the new anchor to unreel paragraphs of gibberish on camera), things soon turn soggy.
Ed Park, Village Voice
Fresh
... on at least three or four occasions, Carrey made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes -- and that's a heck of a trick.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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