Intriguing, chaotic

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2000)

Did anyone else notice that not a single newcomer to 7-1/2 ever bumped his/her head on the low ceiling? Amazing. The plot has an ingenious and fascinating idea -- briefly inhabiting the mind of someone else -- but loses it in an "explanation" by Orson Bean that's out-and-out garbage. And superfluous. Don't explain it, just do it. Some great sequences, particularly Malkovich going into his own mind and seeing himself in everyone else. High point of the movie.