Second Best Movie of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 1999)

It has been years since we, the moviegoing public, has seen a year as filled with great cinema as 1999. First The Matrix, then The Sixth Sense, the cartoon The Iron Giant, my favorite movie of all time American Beauty, the raging Fight Club, and now, Being John Malkovich. Never have I seen such a creative concept for a movie. And the entire series of plot twists that make the entire movie one huge jumble of plots and stories. And right at the center is John Horatio Malkovich.
The story is so original and absurd it is hard to believe anyone could think of it: A puppeteer/file clerk finds a doorway into John Malkovich's head, in which you can see the world through John Malkovich's eyes for fifteen minutes. The clerk teams up with a beautiful coworker, who his wife ends up falling in love with. And the coworker loves the wife-when the wife is inside of John Malkovich. Saying anymore would wreck the movie experience, but there is one scene, with the Million Malkoviches, that blew me away.
10 out of ten.