Like nothing you have ever experienced before

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2000)

Spike Jonze brings to the plate something like never seen before. It's wild, imaginative, weird, funny, and inspiring all at the same time. John Cusack stars as a struggling puppeteer who needs his job to support his family. It includes his wife (a scruffy looking Cameron Diaz), a bevy of animals ranging from an ape to birds and everything in between. He finds a job on the 7 1/2 floor (yes, you heard me right) of a large industrial building. The floor was built for people of the smaller stature so every has to almost walk on their knees to get around. Catherine Keener comes in as Cusack's addiction. She's annoying, selfish, voluptuous and you can't help but like her. One day working, Cusack find a small door which eventually leads into John Malkovich's head for only fifteen minutes. What follows is one of the wildest rides imaginable. The camera shots are inventive, the look and feel is very dark and dirty and the way everything comes at you will leave you speechless. Every performance is done to perfection and Jonze's direction is great. Being John Malkovich is like no other film before it. It's wild, weird and if you think you've seen anything like this before you haven't. Nothing in your wildest dreams could compare to Being John Malkovich.