This film is completely odd, but also refreshing and innovative.

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2007)

I was curious to watch this movie since I read its plot synopsis, but I never thought it would be so good, I mean, this film is great! Some people say it's a just shameful auto-promotion by John Malkovich, but who cares?! If it's so, just let it be, because I don't care if the title is "Being John Malkovich" or "Being Cameron Diaz" or even "Being the Pope" (!); what really matters here is the movie's concept, its original idea and its message to the viewer! And about that I must say you something: it's really fantastic, one of the best movies I've seen latterly by Hollywood!
The plot is original, fresh, and really different from what I've seen so far. At the beginning I just felt oddness, because the story was completely senseless, out of any possible and reasonable logic, and to increase even more this feeling of strangeness it had an alternative kind of humor, which passed too many times from the hilarity to the absurdity. But it was great either! (I can remember that scene when Lotte, Cameron Diaz's character says: "I think it's kind of sexy that John Malkovich has a portal, you know, it's sort like he has a vagina! It's sort of vaginal, like he has a penis and a vagina!" LOL! That's crazy stuff, man!). But if the first part of the movie is completely strange and out of any logic, the second part start giving us some answers, a bit crazy too, but at least with a little logic
The performances of the four main actors are great too: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine keener and John Malkovich did excellent acting.
This film was really refreshing and innovative. It's good to see Hollywood making alternative and excellent movies again