Different, Deep but GREAT!!!

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2010)

This movie starts off, right off the bat strange. You have no idea how someone could even come up with an idea for this. John Cusak plays a man named Craig who is married to a nutty crazy haired Cameron Diaz who is named Lotte. Lotte is a pet shop owner and she has about 20 pets living with her and Craig in an apartment in NYC. Craig is a puppeteer,well a struggling puppeteer he is unable to find work therefore he sometimes sets up puppet shows on the side of the road. One day after being nagged by his wife to get a job till puppeteering becomes more lucrative Craig see's an ad in the paper for a man with skilled hands. That leads Craig to this filing company run by a strange man named Lester. One of the woman Craig meets while working there is the sexy and mysterious Maxine, who Craig instantly falls for. While filing and working in his office Craig finds a portal(behind a filing cabinet). Craig ventures through the portal,which is a shlep through mud and muck, into the head of John Malkovich.After 15minutes in his head you get transported out and you land on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig tells Maxine of his findings and they start up a business where strangers can spend $200 to venture through the portal into the head of John Malkovich. Then Lotte tries the portal and soon sees she enjoys being a man. Maxine realizes she likes Lotte and when Maxine goes to sleep with John, Lotte decides to go through the portal and be John. Lotte soon sees she loves Maxine, but so does Craig. Therefore Craig locks her up in the monkey cage (Lotte has a monkey that when through a trauma when it was young) and Craig decides to be Malkovich every time Maixine is going to be around Malkovich. Craig then figures out how to control Malkovich, how to make him say and do whatever Craig wants. THAT'S WHERE SOME FUNNY STUFF GOES DOWN!
Though this movie is not directed by a director like David Lynch, no one could have done this better. This has many points where this could be about real people, about what they think and want out of life. Though it does seem like a strange idea it really is funny and very honest no character lies to you and you can easily associate yourself with one of them. Whether it is Craig, who is always pushed around, Maxine who is commander and takes over, Lotte who wants to be loved, or Lester who fears death or even John Malkovich who has no control over his life, its a great movie with a hilarious cameo by Charlie Sheen who later gets called Charlie the "Ma-Sheen".