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An attorney who tells the truth for 24 hours straight? That sounds hard! But career-focused lawyer as well as habitual liar Fletcher Reede has to do so in this movie because he is physically incapable of saying anything that isn't true due to his son's birthday wish.
Close to an ideal jumping-off point for Carrey, who spends the better part of an hour grotesquely physicalizing his scummy lawyer's struggle with being obliged to utter cold, hard facts.
Like Robin Williams, Carrey has learned to do his side-splitting shtick in character. He's not only under control, but funnier than ever as the truth-impaired Fletcher Reede.
Carrey has never been better - that is to say funnier, or more controlled. He's reached a higher performance plateau here, playing a real human being we care about rather than a goon figure.