Metaphysical Can of Worms

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 1999)

Getting into someone's head' is a cliché that gets visual representation in the film, "Being John Malkovich", a funny, inventive, original, absurd picture that, unfortunately, falls on its own absurdity. To explain the reasoning behind why anything happens here would be asking one to think, which would destroy all the enjoyment this movie offers. The movie displays comical spurts and dances around the issue of sexual identity. But, ultimately, "Being John Malkovich" falls like a row of cards because its weirdness is too much. It can't escape its own absurdity just like John Malkovich cannot escape seeing everyone looking exactly like him when he enters his own portal. After a certain point, this film runs out of mindless humor and it just plain trite.