Definitely not a classic.

Rating: 6/10 (19 October 2005)

I have seen the movie yesterday. It is entertaining with imagination, lots of twists and characters, lesbianism, lustrous love, lusts etc.
The story line was confused with sci-fi, black comedy and psychological intermingling of characterization. So none of them scored to their max.
And is it original? Somehow I remembered the 'brainstorm' that came in the late eighties. Brainstorm was a sci-fi but dwelt into the story line idea. Same point-of-view shots. And brainstorm thrilled me at the end with a philosophical touch into the nothing.
When Craig explains about the John Malkovich portal to keener I thought there the story would go into the deeper dive. But it just afloat-ed with men and women living for centuries would still constantly linger for sex as like that of teenagers.
The John Malkovich-turned-top-puppeteer part documentary was a nice piece and the induction part. About the casting: John Cusack and Cameron Diaz were unrecognizable transformations into perfect roles of the story.
At the beginning of the story there was a dialog by Craig 'consciousness is a curse..'. I expected similar ones throughout the movie but none has come. Remember 'American Beauty'. That surely is a classic. And 'Magnolia'. But Being John Malkovich misses here.