The script has many glaring flaws, chiefly, that it never explains why G's inspirational speeches about steering clear of materialism and useless products actually sell the things in question.
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01/01/00
Holy Man (1998)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:6
Rotten:42
Average Rating:3.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This satire features Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston, all trying to boost the ratings of a home shopping channel by presenting Murphy as a televangelist. To their dismay, the viewers... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia
Director: Stephen Herek
Reviews for Holy Man
Top CriticThe kitsch on-air shopping sequences are often very funny.
06/24/06
Top CriticLeaves you wondering whether there really is a God.
07/21/09
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04/12/02
A thought-provoking but uneven comedy.
05/16/09
Whatever your conclusion, Eddie Murphy does come off as the least slimed by the proceedings. Is it luck, smart self-marketing or divine intervention?
01/01/00
This film is funny, but despite its subject matter, or perhaps because of it, this is a movie without a soul.
01/01/00
Structurally unsound and way too long.
01/01/00
Nothing in this film works except for an occasionally frantic funny line reading from Goldblum and maybe a couple of the products being sold.
01/01/00
It's always watchable, sometimes enjoyable, never special.
05/22/03
A comedy about the crazy wisdom of a holy fool.
03/03/02
It's also troublesome that Murphy, a generally charismatic actor, is downright dull here. He and Goldblum are curiously flat in their line readings; they don't seem convinced by the story they're asked to act out, and with good reason.
01/01/00
Not even Eddie can save this ill-conceived mess of a movie.
01/01/00
The movie is dominated not by Eddie Murphy but by Jeff Goldblum, a versatile actor indeed, who can flesh out a comic performance as easily as he can horrify us in the role of a fly.
01/01/00
While Murphy probably has what it takes to make the comedian-to-serious actor transition, he needs to do what Martin, Williams, and Carrey did: hold out for a good script.
01/01/00
There's a terrific movie to be made about home-shopping and the folks addicted to it, but 'Holy Man' is not that film.
01/01/00
The film never really explains where G came from or where he's going.
01/01/00
Top CriticEven a 5-year-old could predict where this plot is going.
01/01/00
[Murphy] is the only thing that isn't deadeningly predictable here, but it might still be worth the price of a ticket to see him continue to have such fun being a movie star.
05/20/03
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