Bruce Almighty (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Amorality Runs Wild In Hollywood, The Moral Sinkhole!!!!!!!!
Review:
Note the absolutely calculated sarcasm in this opening line: What a biiiiiig surprise that Hollywood, the entertainment industry, filled to the brim with "people" who're ALWAYS crowing about their constitutional rights to free expression and censorship, are, AS USUAL, then deliberately doing wrong and not adhering to the same so-called standard of "principles", when it comes to other areas, namely religion and Hollywood's relentlessly long-standing desecration of the truth that God, as a deity, exists. Sordidly, even though it's enormously obvious, this double-standard hypocrisy out of the left-wing entertainment "community" comes as NO SURPRISE AT ALL, when you, in an ignominious retrospect, look back at the wickedly pro-communistic and anti-war stance from these dangerous leftist-lovers, disclosed never as infernally as the past couple of months, when they had a whole myriad of things to take advantage of, namely the Iraqi war and the signature-signing backing of Fidel Castro! In other words, when it comes to big show matters that grab a severity of publicity, Hollywood, the maker of this religiously offensive fare disguised as a comedic movie, ruthlessly pretends to be at the forefront of morals when it suits them, yet in more basic issues of morality, mercilessly and willfully misjudges, such as this movie of blasphemous enormities.

Particularly distressing is the tactically menacing plan by the sinister distributing studio to hide these severely heavy dilemmas inside of a comedy, where "people" are unfortunately more likely to forgive it or not notice all together, and worse even, to boot, featuring a purportedly "popular", slapstick actor, who'll just continue to aid and abet, and conceal the ethical violation of writing a movie where God is taken in vain through the whole sacrilegious train wreck by being lowered to human's standards. Quite clearly in fact, the Decalogue---or Ten Commandments---for those heathens who might read this and thus be totally lost, spells out about 2 different, straightforward contraventions that this adverse movie from Universal and by non-believing atheist Tom "heretic" Shadyac perpetrates. Specifically line 2, where the Catholic Bible says to not take the Lord's name in vain, or abuse it. This intentionally irreligious production--with single-minded determination on only making a profit--definitely qualifies for the deadliest breach possible that a person could commit, by representing the Morgan Freeman character first as God, and then by dictating that a human (Carrey) could ever be anywhere as great as God, by handing him God's "powers".

A potential ordeal that mislead the filmmakers to blaspheme lowering God onto a human level is probably a total lack of enlightenment in theology, an all too common predicament for the lost souls out there who qualify as agnostics. It's worse than ridiculous to describe God's abilities as "powers", like He'd be a meanly superhero or villain, because in catechism, God is represented as a being eternally the most superlative force in the universe, Whose status as the almighty is never temporary, and thus would never have his "powers" "revoked" from Him. Another misdirection that this impure movie dissipates into is the totally inexpert struggle by the spin doctors who were hired by said studio to, in a version of `damage control', explain away the sacrilegious theme of the movie. They ineptly stumble to this by reasoning out that the "message" of the film is really "positive" because it shows that if someone "prays" for something that they'll get what they want, and that God (Freeman) will teach those a lesson who question Him (Carrey). Inevitably, I'm pressured to retrospect, "What the heck?!?!?!?!?!?!?" This is yet another dissoluteness confessing the humiliatingly brittle education those atheists have about theology because the church itself teaches that, since this is a matter of the mystery of faith, God doesn't reward people who ask selfishly only for favors unto themselves, otherwise religion would be cheapened to an equivalent of selling indulgences! Furthermore, most of the time, even people who licitly have much more righteous and serious requests don't get their prayers answered, and certainly not "people" who beg of God these blackly idiotic and nauseating requests to prove Himself to them, incidentally another sacrilege, since you're not supposed to put God to the test. Also low-brow is the sophist "reasoning" that God teaches Carrey a lesson, so this makes for a "positive" "message". That impious premise is really an outlandish degradation of what theology strictly forbids: namely the fact that anyone will never be on a comparable level with God.

Rest assured, those $85 million worth of you religiously unconscientious atheists who outrightly put materialistic pleasure over virtuous to go see this film, you can still catch intentionally unprincipled Hollywood's assault on core family values in almost all their releases anyway. More affronting in this movie is the purposeful monstrosity of swearing, which was utterly unnecessary, and only serves to malignantly worsen an already fearsomely God-assailing movie. Then again, it's sorrowfully predictable that the unscrupulous entertainment industry would stoop to this level because they enormously back other dirty things, like communism, socialism, universal health care and illegal immigration, all because of polluted, weak mentalities that exaggerate the fictitious good of an idea---rather than the reality of it. Thank goodness the current Republican majority's curtailing Hollywood's relentless breaching vices of lustful and excessive sex, willful violence and obscenities that are despairingly scattered over fiendishly many of their products. Lastly, the most miscreant demoralization is that EACH AND EVERY ONE of the previous reviewers beastly connived with this unfearing movie and did not in any of their many reviews---meaning that their trespassing is more also---ever realize this woeful lapse of judgment and chide this film the absolute way that it dooms itself to be.



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Summary: Look for the signs...
Review: Look for those signs. That is the main point of the movie. Many of just look at what we want to in life and let the things we ask for pass us by because many times it is not meant for us but we insist.

Bruce is a reporter who thinks he finally has his big break when it is announced on live t.v. that his job he was hoping for was given to his rival. Basically, Bruce gets ticked off a God and tells his to show him a sign...well, God keeps showing him signs but similar to us he ignores them. Finally, God comes to a point where he decides he will let Bruce try his job. While God takes a vacation Bruce goes on a power spree causing humor along the way. You get a feeling for Bruce's life and how he bluntly ignores signs, especially ones he asks for. Bruce gives God back his job and changes his life around. All while making you laugh.

The plot of this movie is one we should all follow. And the acting is great. The movie is full of laughs and has a great moral plot. I would recommend this movie if you want a good laugh.


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Summary: Yes, there's no doubt about it-he's getting better with age
Review: Brue Almighty, Eternal Sunshine..., The Truman Show-each of these films proves what is now a conclusive fact-Carrey has definitely become a better actor, starring in better films, as time went on. Once upon a time Carrey was known as a rubber-faced, hyper-manic lightning bolt actor who never ran out of steam, even when the films he starred in did. Well, he's still rubber-faced, but he's certainly matured as an actor-he's starting to show some breadth in the work that he can do. But anyway, "Bruce Almighty" is a great movie, perhaps the highlight of which is the casting. Morgan Freeman does an absolutly brilliant job as God, I wish more people would give kudos to him-his performance is great. Carrey is great too, and the fact that this movie does such a perfect balance of fantasy and reality is what really makes it worth four stars. Shadyac keeps the film grounded long enough in reality for it to really succeed. Worth seeing.

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Summary: entertaining but a bit biased
Review: I was a bit surprised by this one. I didn't expect it to be quite so blatantly Born Again Christian oriented. From some of Carey's lines towards the end of the film, it seems pretty obvious to me that he is a Born Again. Not that that's necessarily bad. The film had a nice message, but the ending came across as a bit trite to me. Perhaps I'm being unfair, but it's the kind of triteness I associate with most Born Again lore.

I enjoyed some of the gags, too, but in some spots, Carey's goofiness started to wear a bit thin - something I hadn't previously noticed in his films. It reminded me of Steve Martin in Bringing Down the House. Maybe these guys both need to find a new angle or something.


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Summary: Dealing With One's Midlife Crisis
Review: Bruce Almighty is an amusing tale of a 40 something man's battle with his midlife crisis. Jim Carrey is quite amusing particualrly in his physical comic style. Morgan Freeman and Jan Aston fill in nicely in supporting roles.

The moral of this movie is to not take life so seriously. There can be some joy in handling the lighter side of life. Some moments are a bit disjointed but overall the good outweighs the bad and overdone.

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Summary: It's good...ITS GOOOOD.
Review: I watched this one almost a year ago. I gotta be honest and say that Carrey looked like a moron, like he does in every single movie he makes, it doesn't matter if he does a dramatic movie, he looks like someone who was taken from CHILD SERVICES. He is...special. I liked the movie, but it wasn't that great. The best movie he made, for me, was THE MASK. The was the only movie from Jim Carrey that should get five stars. Anyway...speaking about his movie, than I should say that I didn't like that much like THE MASK. If you want to watch a barely descent movie from CARREY, then watch THE MASK.
But, I think this movie is just good. That's the highest word that rates this movie.

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Summary: A showcase for Carrey
Review: Jim Carrey is at his rubber faced best as foresaken news reporter Bruce Nolan in the often times hilarious "Bruce Almighty".

Carrey has carved out a nice niche for himself as the king of fluff news reports for channel 7 in Buffalo. He has a caring and sympathetic girlfriend Grace played by Jennifer Aniston. Striving for more in his profession, he goes ballistic when he is bypassed for the prestigious anchor position by stuffed shirt Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell.

A melt down on the air leads to Carrey being fired. He beseaches God who he feels has abandoned him. Upon answering an employment advertisement in an abandoned building, he confronts Morgan Freeman who is convincingly playing God. Freeman bestows his powers on Carrey allowing him to wield God's powers to enlighten him as to the difficulty of the job.

Carrey proceeds to try to right the wrongs of his life but begins to learn some very important lessons.

"Bruce Almighty" was another good vehicle for the excellent physical comedic talents of Jim Carrey. Hang with the closing credits where Carrey does his absolutely hysterical impersonation of Sammy Davis Jr.