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Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2003)

Yes, this film is fun, entertaining and such a good concept. The only trouble is its not good. Not in the slightest. Jim Carrey is way too over the top, his style of playing the nouveau God isn't suitable for the moral point the film tries (and needs) to make at the end, very funny his performance is but its just not good for the film. The cast itself reads very well, and Jim Carrey would be good if they were just making a simple comedy- but the man cannot do sincere!Which the film really needs to pull off if we are to make sense of why God 'gave' his powers to Bruce in the first place.
Although Morgan Freeman is extremely good, and very well cast as God, Jennifer Aniston was criminally underwritten and the angle that she could of put on the story would have added alot, instead they merely put her in a lovesick role, that she can play very easily.
Trouble is the film could have been so good if they'd just tried and actually concentrated on making it witty and meaningful. Fine, if you want a plain, slapstick comedy this is okay, but it could(and should) have been so much better. I left the cinema unsatisfied and i don't think i'll be watching it again.