Sci-fi action thinker guy says: a Jim Carrey flick I actually liked!

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2002)

Can we talk? Can we really talk?
I was emotionally scarred by the badness of Jim Carrey's "The Mask". "Dumb and Dumber" wasn't much better, and I barely made it through "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". I just don't like the Jerry Lewis style idiot humor.
But "The Truman Show" is totally different. It is really a drama, although there are comedy bits, and it's original, well-acted, and interesting. I'm an action movie buff, and I get bored readily by dramas, but this one is interesting in a way reminiscent of the old TV series, "The Prisoner", but not as pointless. And while there's a fair chunk of arty, the film was accessible to me, not one of the elite.
Who would like this film:
-- drama fans, even if you hate Jim Carrey films normally
-- types like me who can appreciate a drama if it's intelligent, not too slow, and not too arty. This one's safe.
Don't see it as a comedy; it's not really.
I'll give "The Truman Show" a big relief vote of 9 out of 10.