Being John Malkovich
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Movie Reviews of Being John Malkovich
Movie Review: I liked it a lot
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything about this movie was great, the cast, plot, tone...etc. The all-start cast consisted of John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener. The main character, Cusack, is a struggling puppeteer married to Diaz, a pet-obsessed woman with frizzy hair. One day, Cusack takes a job as a filer in a bazaar firm that is on only half of a floor, and he discovers a portal into actor, John Malcovich's, brain. All the while, Cusack has been obsessed with Catherine Keener's character, Maxine, and so has Cusack's wife, Diaz. Things get confusing for everyone, Diaz thinks she's a transexual after being in Malcovich's head, Maxine is only inlove with Diaz while she is in Malcovich, and Cusack will do anything to win over Maxine including tying up his wife and leaving her in a monkey's cage. Very weird idea for a film, definately not mainstream, but I really enjoyed it. It's genius.Movie Review: Absolute, esoteric entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
What a gem of a movie. Imaginative writing that was so hilarious, I couldn't wait for the next scene, to see if it was going to be funnier that the previous one. Orson Bean (Doctor Lester) was an unbelievable filthy, dirty, sex-starved old coot - "Insane, old lech" is how John Cusak's character; Craig Schwartz put it. The interplay between Cusak and Kathryn Keener (Maxine) was "way out there." Excellent direction from Spike Jonze.
I don't know what else to add but that this was the weirdest, most enjoyable movie I've seen in years. We should all be so lucky as to be in John Malkovich's eyes and then spit out 15 minutes later.
"I was John fu**ing Malkovich!" - exclaimed Cameron Diaz (Lotte Schwartz). A total crackup. "Malkovich!" "Malkovich!" "Malkovich!" "Malkovich!" You'll love "Craig's Dance Of Despair And Disillusionment"
Movie Review: THIS MOVIE REALLY TRIPPED ME OUT (AWESOME)
Summary: 5 Stars
If someone made a movie about a lame puppeteer, with a boring life, a wife thats as bored as he is, a structurally mismade office building, a sexy but somewhat evil co worker, a backwards talking boss, a chimpanzee with a traumatic youth, and a PORTAL INTO JOHN MALKOVICHS BRAIN, would you see it?
Well you should, cuz there is. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH is one of the craziest movies ever made, and what's really weird about this movie is that in the end... it all makes perfect sense.
This one will flip your wig kids, if you are into movies that make you trip without using drugs... this one is for you. The writers follow up film ADAPTATION is also very awesome.
read this guys reveiw below mine if you've SEEN the movie, I'm sitting at work DYING!
Movie Review: Best Film of 1999.
Summary: 5 Stars
Can't believe that this didn't win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (and I loved "American Beauty"). The fact is this should have won Best Picture. Spike Jones has directed a brilliant script by Charlie Kaufman. John Cusack (so great in "The Grifters" and "Bullets Over Broadway") gives his finest performance here. John Malkovich and Catherine Keener deliver great performances - inventive and fesh - Malkovich is one of the greats - Keener a revelation. Cameron Diaz (never a favorite) proves herself a considerable actress. The editing, art direction, sound and score are all terrific. The last great film of the twentieth century? Certainly the best film of 1999. Beware: Thinking required.Movie Review: Being John Malcovich
Summary: 5 Stars
This strangely inventive surrealistic comedy was the inaugural collaboration between onetime music-video director Jonze and talented screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. With such a bizarre concept, this film could have sent audiences home scratching their own noggins, but Cusack, Keener, and an unrecognizable Diaz have a bright, wonderful chemistry that shines through all the head-trippiness. And who can deny that Malkovich, normally such a priggish presence, doesn't have a devilish sense of humor, especially in a hilarious scene where he enters his own head and freaks out? Clever, inspired, and extremely funny, "Malkovich" is cinema-as-funhouse-mirror, and the effect is dizzying.