Impossible feat

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2006)

Watching this movie is like skateboarding on a Mobius strip. I am a sucker for suspension of disbelief, so I actually spent several fruitless minutes trying to construct my own explanation of what John Malkovich should see while inside John Malkovich because I had decided the film's depiction was inaccurate.
The movie is a bit derivative. Several scenes are suggestive of "Seconds," "Rosemary's Baby" and the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Counselor Troi is "mentally raped." While the film's flexible sexuality will amuse the sophisticates, red state viewers are more likely to exit the experience with greater feelings of sexual paranoia and homophobia.