recruitment movie?

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2007)

I thought this might be funny. I can accept the premise of a supernatural being granting you power. I think Jim Carey is funny. I came to it with midling expectations, just hoping for some laughs at someone learning about the corruption of power and his own life.
However,this movie actually made me mad. Not just disappointed that it wasn't good, or that I wasted two hours. It made me mad because I realized I was watching one big Latter Day Saints commercial (remember the "who broke my window" moralizing segments on TV?)
I could accept the "stop whining", "stop asking god to fix your life" ... sort of message. However, this movie then preached the need to "surrender your will to god" and that you need to "trust that god knows best about how your life should be" - in other words the same old accept your place in life argument of many organized religions. A lecture about my need for blind faith in some supernatural being was NOT what I was looking for. I don't believe bad things happen for a "good" reason or as part of some larger plan and should just be accepted.
Nor was it amusing to be preached to.
I'm actually mad it was aired on TV. I'm mad it was made. I'm hoping Jim Carey & Morgan Freeman are ashamed they made it. And I'm annoyed they made a sequel (that I will avoid like a biblical plague).