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This one is better than the rather bad Bob Hope film of fifty or so years ago -- which if I recall had Hope's character return immediately to his lying ways as soon as he could -- but only because Jim Carrey's somewhat emotionally disturbed personality fits the dishonest lawyer role so well, and his comic timing is pretty sharp when it comes to jokes at other people's expense.
However, the film insists that we dislike Cary Elwes' character as too saccharine, even Jim Carrey's estranged wife finds him boring; but Jim Carrey's change of heart or whatever it is that happens at the end, possibly a spiritual lobotomy, turns him into a clone of the Cary Elwes' character and surprise surprise, his sense of humor disappears. Jim Carrey is funniest when he is on the attack, and his "conversion" to good guy status is nearly equivalent to having his character killed off.
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