Bruce Campbell Almighty

Rating: 7/10 (21 November 2003)

Was this part 4 of the Evil Dead series? Throughout the film I kept thinking that it was shot in the same style as early Sam Raimi work. The action was fast paced and cartoonish like Dark Man and Evil Dead. I think this movie should have been called Bruce Campbell Almighty. Jim Carrey who played Bruce must have watched Evil Dead for inspirational acting ideas. His character had the same manic personality as Bruce Campbell.

This movie started out great. Bruce's life is not going very well. He keeps blaming his problems on God's spite. He loses his job, but is nice enough to help a homeless person in need. He gets an offer by God played by Morgan Freeman to do his work. Gods reasoning is that he needs a vacation. This means he will have God's power. The best and funniest scenes of the movie take place when Bruce uses the power for his own amusement. He makes his girlfriend's breast bigger, he makes her horny, he gets a sportcar, and uses his power to sabotage his enemies. The first part of the movie was funny, but then comes script block. The second part of the movie felt stagnant. It involves him becoming depressed because his girlfriend leaves him, and he wants to use his powers for only `good'. I was disappointed that it started out so funny and zany, but ended up trying to prove that God's power is too much for a mere mortal. I think this would have been a great movie if it kept up the fast paced tempo that it had in the beginning. The director seemed scared to make a movie with no point. It would have been better if he kept the movie irrelevant. At the end it had the corny happy Hollywood ending. Why not have Bruce stay happy with the powers of God? Is it too morally wrong and unethical to think that maybe a mere mortal human could handle great powers? I personally would have liked to have seen him handle the powers without any problems. It ended up being a clichÃ©. He was given the power, but he could not handle it. Too bad, I could have handled it! But then again I am the drunken critic. 7/10