Presumably God bequeathed us HIS sense of humor. I doubt this tickled his fancy!

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2003)

Ok guys, I too am a Jim Carrey fan from way back....but MAN, he and Shadyac are completely off the rails with this mess!
The first 30 minutes are fine.....vintage Carrey and right up until the Niagara Falls sequence - brilliant. Can't fault the acting, direction, script or general entertainment quotient. Somewhere just beyond the half-way point however..perhaps around the advent of the moon-roping sequence, the film starts to disintegrate. The makers, obviously using LIAR LIAR as a template, find they haven't the story or depth to sustain what is basically a one-joke film. The fault is not Carrey's in fact he sustains a high level of acting throughout..even when the film is irredeemably lost by the three-quarter mark! Incredibly...BRUCE ALMIGHTY enters into a phase of utter BOREDOM as we are treated to a pseudo-religious sermon that just refuses to kerb its pretension.
One fault - for me at least - was the casting of Jennifer Anniston. Whereas Maura Tierney made such a smart, attractive and cute feminine lead/wife in LIAR LIAR, Ms Anniston looks like a really middle-aged if not totally bedraggled love interest for most of the time..she does absolutely nothing for the picture. The "highlight" of the movie...the "newsreading sequence" WAS funny admittedly but would even have been more amusing had not Rowan Atkinson done it way better and funnier in JOHNNY ENGLISH.
The last thirty minutes plays out like some out-takes from THE MAJESTIC which also found itself with nowhere to go at a critical point. In summation therefore, I have to agree with so many others who rightly commented that the film could have been soo much better given the premise and yeah...if you've seen the trailer...don't bother with the film!