I Love You, Phillip Morris

Jim Carrey looks to be acting. Will Academy voters finally notice? (OH, this is NSFW and you should be over 17 to watch this trailer)

Entertainment Weekly posted this international trailer a week or so ago and wondered how many times did its readers say “what the…?” I don’t know, call me crazy, but I think this movie could be one that stirs things up a bit.

Owen Gleiberman praises Carrey after the cut (from all the way back in January 2009 — so, what, did they edit the sucker to appease audiences or what?)

When Jim Carrey tries to play ordinary Joes, he can seem like a replicant, using his elastic face to create facsimiles of feeling. Strangely enough, that quality sort of works for him in I Love You Phillip Morris. As Steve Russell, a Texas cop who is not what he seems, Carrey looks craggy and twitchy and a bit sinister, with spooked eyes and an overly coiffed shell of hair. There’s a vacancy behind those eyes, but this time it belongs there: Early on, Steve reveals to the audience that he’s a closeted homosexual, and that’s but the first of his many deceptions. Coming out of the closet, he moves to Miami, perpetrating insurance and credit-card scams to pay for his newly ritzy gay lifestyle, which gets him tossed into prison — at which point you realize that the movie is going to be one damn thing after another, with a plot that keeps twisting like a Rubik’s Cube.