Since, movies are mostly fiction, no one can make one, cause it would be a lie. In that theatre you'll see a guy sitting in a chair reciting history. How do people live in a world with no lies? Well, when you want to watch a film, you go to the theatre. Things happens and people react without really knowing why, this leaves little for character arc. Does it? Well, how do romantic comedies usually work out? Here the outcome doesn't seem too believable. Yet they form a friendship, one in which Gervais hopes will blossom into something more. Jennifer Garner plays the romantic lead, who finds Gervais fat and with a stubby nose, not a good match genetically for a marriage and children. The comedy kind of takes a second step to the theme of religion.
The film has some emotional scenes, that influence the rest of the film. The one concept gets some laughs here and there, but there are never any really laugh out loud moments. This time around he's also behind the camera, yet nothing technical about this film pops out, it plays out like an average comedy, relying on it's one concept. Gervais is at the lead again, after his feel good comedy Ghost Town, which people decided to skip. Yet one can ask themselves a simple question, why not just lie his way out of it, instead of digging deeper holes. In one scene a lie gets him in too deep to dig himself back up and that's where the conflict in this film comes in. The joke goes on and on, he tells lies, people believe him.
The premise of this film is funny, but it becomes too much of itself and is tiresome after a while. It is a clever concept, a clever and more massive spin on Liar Liar, yet that might not be such a good thing. Since no one in this universe has ever heard a lie before, they take it as fact. His brain does something abnormal, he tells a lie. In a world where everyone must tell the truth, one man after being fired and almost evicted is pushed to the limits.
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