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Summary: I want to go to K-Pax!!
Review: When my wife and I went on our honeymoon, there were two movies on the cruise ship that we could not watch enough of. K-Pax was one of them. This movie draws you in from the very beginning. It starts out with with a mugging in a subway, and when the cops get there Kevin Spacey is interogated about what went on. He tells the cops his name is port and he is not from here. Port is then committed to a sanitarium and placed under the car of a doctor who is played by Jeff Bridges. No one believes that Port is from another planet until he starts expaining things about the universe that no one knew. Is Port from the planet K-Pax like he says? Thats for you to figure out. The ending of this movie was breath taking and very surprising. The build up to the ending leaves you hanging on every second of this movie. This is a great addition to anyones DVD collection.
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Summary: Finally something different
Review: Well done, hats off, creative, brilliant, thought provoking, funny and exciting. Finally a movie with some thought and great performances by both Kevin and Jeff. You can always tell actors that have talent because they keep you interested in what they are doing and can convince you that there character is real. After the movie is over this will stimulate great conversation with the person your with. I liked it because it really could be? Right? Maybe? Maybe kind of wish? This is wonderful entertainment and a great DVD to add to your collection.
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Summary: Go Buy the DVD
Review: What a great film. From start to finish I hung on every word, every frame. I'm a great Spacey fan, and to his credit he meets his usual standards, but the directing, the cinematography, and the story itself all blend like some fantastic symphony.Spacey plays Prot, a mental patient who claims to come from the planet K-Pax in another solar system. He's crazy right? Well that's part of the beauty of this film. The story leads the viewer down a path of Prot's mysterious understanding of the orbital mechanics of a binary star system, and a psychotic phobia of water sprinklers, flip flopping the viewer's opinion of Prot's true nature. Alien or Psychotic. Brilliantly done. There is some amazing cinematography. Although I watched the VHS version I recommend purchasing the DVD to get the full effect. The "modified to fit your screen" mutilation, just doesn't do it justice. One shot in particular shows the obsessive compulsive (I forget his name) with the background distorted by his thick glasses. It's really beautiful. Could be a poster. There are also many cut scene's shot in fast forward, mostly of clouds, marquee's, and tailights. I generally consider this sort of filming as too MTV trendy for my tastes, but I understand now that it fits with the main point of the movie. Life is fleeting and not to be squandered, much like American Beauty. Enjoy life. Because in the end, we only get one shot at doing it right.
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Summary: This movie made me really hungry.
Review: Kevin Spacey was brilliant in this. I loved it. When I heard about the plot line (an alien from a distant galaxy travels to Earth to observe things, but unfortunately ends up in a mental hospital) it sounded kind of hokey. But it's really anything but. Spacey made Prot one of the most lovable characters in mainstream movies that I've seen for a long time. Just like in American Beauty...he did an awesome job. And all of the other characters did a nice job, too...
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: A man named Prot arrives in Grand Central terminal and claims to be from outer space. They stick him in a mental hospital. Dr. Mark Powell is his psychiatrist. Prot almost convinces us, and Dr. Powell, that there is a possibility he just be from outer space. We want him to be. You're dying to find out. Entertaining.
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Summary: K-Pak
Review: I was very surprised. After working for years in the Mental Health area, Psychotic or insane "labeled" patients are generally unbelived no matter what they say. This is probably exactly what we would do with a real being from another planet. Lock them up. They, having the power to escape us at any time probably wouldn't as they studied us and our ways. I really liked the alternate ending where Kevin Spacy left just after teaching us some very important advanced lessons and we him.
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Summary: Kevin SPacey does it AGAIN
Review: In Kpax, spacey stars as an anymous person, he could be an alien or a crazy person. The film leaves that for the viewer to decide..In this movie there are so many things that pop in ur head becuase u dont know what going to happen next. Kevin Spacey plays a good role in this movie, i don't know if its his personalliy that makes the movie good, or his funny comments. If u liked Kevin Spacey in this fil i suggest u buy AMerican Beauty, becuase that film captures Kevin Spacey at his best. His personaltuy in that movie is also very funny. In other words, Jef bridges and Kevin Spacey played both very good parts, and the movie had a twisted ending too.
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Summary: Gorgeous Film
Review: K-PAX is an excellent film rendition of Gene Brewer's novel of the same name. Where Brewer's novel was somewhat terse, told largely in the form of psychiatrist's notes, the film is much more lyrical. What debate there may be as to the superiority of a particular version surely lies in the nature of the particular medium, and the film's changes made from the novel are largely to take advantage of its enhanced visual and dialogue aspects. Cinematography and art direction were superb, and the music (a sort of Mike Oldfield/Tubular Bells homage by Ed Shearmur) fit the film perfectly. Director Ian Softley and screenwriter Charles Leavitt deserve kudos for keeping the spirit of Brewer's entrancing novel alive. Especially noteworthy is the acting. Jeff Bridges and Mary McCormack do a wonderful job supporting Kevin Spacey. You really have to admire Spacey for exercising such selectivity over his projects, and here, as in American Beauty, he is at his peculiar best, a real delight to watch. Some viewers may find K-PAX a challenge, as it deals more with questions than answers; some will be disappointed that it doesn't meet their expectations as a science fiction film, or resemble One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest more. I submit that they have missed the point of the film altogether, which is as a gentle character study of a man caught in tragic circumstances, colored with a sense of wonder and social commentary delivered with magical realism. K-PAX is a real delight in both film and print forms; the novel also has an excellent sequel ON A BEAM OF LIGHT and a final member of the trilogy is due out soon. I hope that those books are brought to screen by the same talent involved in this one, it would be a great pleasure.
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Summary: Thought provoking and good story telling
Review: K-PAX is in the rare class of movies that combines a good story with thought provoking ideas.
The movie hinges on the ambiguity of "Prot" as either an alien or simply deranged. Although the ambiguity diminishes as the story unfolds, we are never entirely sure about "Prot": his ability to sketch the orbit of his home planet, the disappearance of his fellow space traveller, and other enticing aspects of the character remain unresolved to the end. Regardless of our take on Prot as an alien, the movie is a testament to the ability of the imagination to transcend the most trying of circumstances, and also to the very tangible and positive effects of our beliefs.
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Summary: Just a couple of comments to add to what's already been said
Review: LOVED Kevin Spacey as Prot! He was perfect. The whole show was really well done, in my opinion. However, for the life of me, I cannot understand ==WHY== they would not have made it known, as the book did, that Prot considered Robert Porter his 'host' while he was here on earth. That one detail makes all the difference at the end! My husband and I watched this movie together. He had not read the book, and was a little annoyed at the ending of the movie. When I told him what the book had implied about the host thing, he commented that he was so glad I had read it so I could tell him that. So that's why I'm telling this for anyone else who's thinking about seeing this cool show, but who hasn't read the book. =o) (BTW, it would have been 5 stars if they had included that one detail....)
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