Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: He’s got the power.
Plot Outline: A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.
Bruce Nolan is a television reporter, who is currently assigned what he considers to be undignified assignments, that has him being the b u t t of a joke. When he is told that he is being considered for the position of anchorman, he goes out to do a live feed but when it is announced that Evan Baxter was going to be the new anchorman, and he freaks out. He gets fired, beaten up, and so on. In the end he blames God. God then decides to give Bruce his powers.
Bruce then wreaks havoc and is enjoying it. He sabotages Evan and gets the job of anchorman. But when he realizes that he has to deal with what has got to be God’s most arduous task, listening and answering prayers. When he tries to grant everybody what they want, turmoil ensues. And while Bruce is getting everything he wants, he has been ignoring his girlfriend, Grace and loses her. And it seems that the only thing that he can’t do, is alter a person’s free will, so if he wants her back, he has to do it the hard way.
Cast overview :
Jim Carrey .... Bruce Nolan
Morgan Freeman .... God
Jennifer Aniston .... Grace Connelly
Philip Baker Hall .... Jack Baylor
Bruce Almightly (starring Jim Carrey from ace ventura films and cable guy which nearly ruined his comedy career) is a great family film. He plays the role of a nobody in his view, and god seems to be playing on that and letting him down all the time, so in fact he gets all gods powers for a week or so while he goes on a much needed holiday and has ’’fun’’ nearer the start and things start to mess up as the film goes along.
He enjoys doing things as changing his car, blowing up a ladies dress and imploding a hydrogen cashe. He then starts to wish he had never been given the powers as god makes things a little harder for him, getting like 1000000000000000 prayer emails and he has to reply to them all or some, but leaves it to the side like all things in his life.
He soon changes nearer the end however, because god gets him to look up to his wife a little more and show her some more respect in which he does do at the end.
I won’t spoil it any further but a great film 10/10 Not as good as his earlier films but still entertaining.