one of the few movies I paid to see more than once...

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2009)

Like a Gogol story, the fantastic nature of this film, utterly grips you in Rocky-Horror-like adoration for years to come. This film defines "eccentric" in the most exciting and wonderful of ways, from a strangely numbered / low-ceiling office to a scene of puppetry masterly set to Bartok. The cast: Cusak is at his best. Malkovich is amazing. Diaz is memorable. Keener is stunning. The sheer insanity of the story seems so completely enveloping that you too, for a fee, can be John Malkovich (and eventually find yourself on the side of the road!). If you think otherwise... you must have lost your sense of wonder and lust for life or never had it in the first place. As much as I would love a sequel, I know that it would be impossible to follow it up with anything but a dud.