So twisted, yet so straight, yet so queer, so odd yet so even.

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2000)

(Warning: There are possible spoilers in this comment. For the best viewing experience, it is best to know NOTHING about the movie at all.)
This movie, along with having maybe THE best and most daring and original plot in the history of Hollywood movies, also has wonderful, colourful human interaction. All the characters - and I mean ALL - are glaringly dysfunctional, but they are this in such a way that their defects 'click' together to produce some of the great dialogues in cinema. The point where Craig tries to explain Maxine about just having been inside John Malkovich's head is just incredible in its simplicity and effectiveness. The interplay between Craig and Lotte is also crackling. This movie also contains one of the weirdest love interests ever - between a quasi-lesbian, domineering woman who is turned on by a woman inside a man's body, and a bored housewife who experiences the thrill of being inside John Malkovich and decides she's a transsexual. Thus, lines like 'I have to see you, Maxine.' - 'Ok, Lotte, I'll see you in Malkovich in an hour' are born. Wonderful, wonderful movie. See it with an open mind (but not so open as to let John Cusack get in through a muddy tunnel).