Synopsis
In a world where everyone can only tell the truth... This guy can lie.
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
2009 Directed by Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Ricky Gervais Jennifer Garner Louis C.K. Rob Lowe Jonah Hill Jeffrey Tambor Fionnula Flanagan Tina Fey Donna Sorbello Jason Bateman Philip Seymour Hoffman Jimmi Simpson Stephanie March Ruben Santiago-Hudson John Hodgman Nate Corddry Christopher Guest Alton Fitzgerald White Edward Norton Shaun Williamson Stephen Merchant Michael Patrick Gough Ashlie Atkinson Lisa Paige Robinson Matt Stadelmann Martin Starr Tate Ellington Arnie Burton Bobby Moynihan Show All…
Wintergreen Productions MRC 1821 Pictures Lin Pictures Lynda Obst Productions Warner Bros. Pictures Radar Pictures Focus Features
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"If you could do anything, what would you do?"
"Grab women's boobs" - Louis C.K.
Well, this aged well.
Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
Metacritic Metascore: 58
IMDB: 6.4
64/100
Viewing Platform: Netflix
Release Date: 02 October 2009
Distributor: Warner Bros
Budget: $18.5M
Worldwide Gross: $32.4M
Mark Bellison: "If you could make the world the way you wanted it to be, what would you do? If you could change anything, if you could do anything, what's the first thing you'd do?"
SYNOPSIS: A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.
- Source: IMDb
In a world where everyone must tell the truth, one man is pushed to the limit after being fired and receiving an eviction notice. His brain then does something abnormal and…
Well this is technically a rewatch but it has been years since I last watched it and I really couldn’t remember much.
The whole idea behind the movie is very interesting and the ridiculousness of the story along with the jokes made it fun.
The story had a good flow most of the time but it went a bit downhill when they suddenly made it all about religion and it became a silly romantic comedy but I was overall still entertained.
The cast was good and the movie had a lot of cameos and even one from Phillip Seymour Hoffman and we almost constantly saw a new familiar face.
The story had much more potential than what we ended up getting but Ricky Gervais was a good lead and the jokes were mostly pretty funny, so the movie was overall an enjoyable comedy.
this film has a promising and clever premise that could have been a good examination of religion and other social constructs, but was put into waste by a superficial massively flawed plot with lots of contradictions.
The laziest possible attempt at this concept humanly imaginable. World-building, characterization, thematic construction, direction, structure... all half-ass. Concept gold turned to mush.
For an atheist, Ricky Gervais doesn't half have a massive Jesus complex. He's also a bellend and a terrible director. In this, he lets his stupid massive ego get in the way of creating a decent film, every step of the way - it invades his characterisation, his jokes, his plot, everything. Total waste of a good cast and a vaguely okay idea.
Also, just because people can't lie doesn't mean they'll automatically tell you everything they're thinking as soon as they set eyes on you. This whole conceit is such an intrusive, repetitive failure of the script, and it makes me hate not only Ricky Gervais but also cinema itself, and humans and life.
Fuck you, Gervais. Fuck you.…
“Oh no I imagined a terrible mansion!” is such an incredible joke. It really pops in the middle of this movie that’s otherwise a comedy in tone only.
This film makes a good case for stopping production of all movies so that this can never happen again.
This is A 10/10 concept with like 5/10 execution. Gervais could have made a comical and philosophical exploration of humanity and why we tell lies, but instead goes for a half baked rom com that takes some easy cheap shots at religion.
It's not as clever as most of the stuff Ricky Gervais has put out it suffers from being predictable and tons of cliches in the last act, but it is still funny as hell and pretty clever. Plus, it's Ricky Gervais so you can expect an interesting satire in the very least.