Read The Book Instead

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2003)

First off I want to explain why some religious people are offended by this movie. In order to do that I'll briefly explain the story. Jim Carrey is an aggravated news reporter who meets God. God is played by Morgan Freeman. Anyway, God gives Jim Carrey his powers, so Jim Carrey becomes God. Anyway, religious people are angry about this story because they don't like to see God portrayed as a humor-filled human. Furthermore, according to the Bible (John 3:21) "And God's skin was white." Seeing Morgan Freeman play God isn't very accurate to God's bestselling novel, The Bible. I think that this movie is better than the book is based on, but Jim Carrey's portrayal of Jesus is a bit off. I didn't know that cars, New York, cookies, TV, and other modern devices existed during the time of Christ. Religious people might feel that the book is better than the movie in this case, the book I'm speaking of is none other than The Bible- the New Testament written by God. Anyway, this movie unfortunately turned out to be a romantic comedy. Romantic comedies are NEVER funny. There's only ONE funny part in the film, which is worth the watch. Also the actress who plays Susan Ortega is absolutely B-E-A-utiful! Other than that this film sucks. I strongly recommend reading the book instead of seeing this. The movie didn't even attempt to include Jesus' disciples, or curing of life long illnesses like blindness and leprosy.