Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Jim Carrey replaces God.
After having directed him in Ace Ventura, detective dogs and cats, then Liar, liar, Tom Shadyac knows enough about the concentrate of humanity and madness that is Jim Carrey to offer him the main role of his fantastic comedy Bruce Almighty . The actor plays Bruce Nolan, a famous reporter always grumpy, who is entrusted with divine powers for a week.
Facing him, Morgan Freeman lends his features to God. A choice that quickly imposed itself in the mind of the director. Indeed, since his film debut, the actor has been accustomed to the roles of great sages, whether judge Leonard White in Le Bûcher des vanités, the model prisoner in Les Évadés, the lucid and experienced detective in Seven, of the American president in Deep Impact or even of a blind artist in Danny the dog.
With an average viewer rating of 3.1 out of 5 on AlloCiné, Almighty Bruce is a nice modern tale with tasty gags on the value of power, the sense of responsibility and human vanity.
Almighty Bruce by Tom Shadyac with Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman…
Tonight on TMC at 9:15 p.m.