Extremely Creative but Over-reaching

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2000)

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH * * 1/2 A tough one to rate. The screenplay is extremely creative but to me it tries to hard to cover too much ground, too many themes. As entertainment, the first half hour is the funniest stuff I've seen in a movie in a long time, but then the unpleasantness of the characters started getting to me and by the end I had to consider it an admirable misfire. John Cusack is excellent.