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Classic performances from Spacey and Bridges
This film would merit 4.5 stars for me. Kevin Spacey plays 'Prot' and Jeff Bridges play the psychiatrist who is asked to look after him. Prot claims to be an Alien from another planet and (I'm giving nothing away here as this happens immediately the film starts) seems to appear out of nowhere at a train station.
Spacey and Bridges are brilliant actors and as a pairing you couldn't ask for better casting than this. Sure there are bigger stars, but the film wouldn't have been as good without these two. The film leaves you to make up your own mind about Prot. Could he be autistic? This is one possibility to explain his talents. However you'll have to see the film to decide whether he's an Alien or not.
In some ways this is a sister film to John Carpenter's Starman in which Jeff Bridges played the Alien. Like that earlier film K-Pax is both moving and wonderous. I have watched it many times and still can't understand why neither of the leading Actors received any recognition in terms of the major film awards (Oscars, Cannes etc). In 2002 Denzel Washington (a fine actor) won the Oscar for Training Day - nope I don't don't understand that either!
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IS HE OR IS HE NOT?
I am a big Kevin Spacey fan. I think he is one of the best actors ever. He continues to deliver in K-PAX. It's a story about a man who says he is from the planet K-PAX. He gets placed into a psyche hospital. There he meets his doctor played by Jeff Bridges and the two form an unusual bond. While in the hospital, Prott (Kevin Spacey) embraces the other mental patients in his ward. He offers unjaded guidance and counsel. At the end of the movie, two of the patients are released because of Prott's, not the doctor's, help.
K-PAX is a story about unbearable sadness and thin degrees of hope. Yet it's not depressing. This is a movie that doesn't really answer your questions at the end. But I was okay with that. I enjoy movies with unusual story-lines and this movie delivers. It satisfies on many levels. I would classify this movie as a mystery drama with a sci-fi element.
I can say without reservation, do not hesitate to add this dvd to your movie collection.
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loved it!
I love this movie in so many ways. the cinimetography is inspired, the acting superb, and its a great conversational piece. you can tell what kind of a person someone is when you ask the key question, was he really an alien? why or why not. you'd be surprised how far that converstation can go and it will reveal just how creative or inside the box a person is. i also find it a great pick me up when i'm feeling a bit sad or anxious, spacey has a strangly calming effect in this character. my collection would be incomplete without it.
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wow.
after all these years, i saw the film. it touched me. i bought a copy of the dvd. then after all these years, i took a class "introduction to film." as part of our final assignments, we had to choose a scene from a film, to review aloud in front of the class. i chose this film... K-PAX. and i highlighted how the doctor is trying to have Prot merely "consider" that he might actually be Robert. but Robert/Prot counters, by asking the Doctor to consider that it might be true, that Prot is his name and that he is from the planet K-pax.
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"Doctor, Patient, Curious Human Distinction"
I must say that `K-Pax' released in '01 was a delightfully unexpected surprise. I absolutely loved it! I found it to be an intriguing combination of the '75 hit `One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and the much earlier '51 sci-fi classic `The Day the Earth Stood Still.' Do you sci-fi fans out there remember the name of the large robot with the x-ray eyes in the '51 film? For those who don't it was Gort, a name strikingly similar to that of the supposed humanoid alien Prot played so brilliantly by Kevin Spacey.
With 190 reviews already on-line for `K-Pax' there's no need for me to rehash the storyline. I would however like to recommend this film to one and all. It's beautifully filmed and directed complimented by sharp, insightful dialogue containing numerous quotable lines. Kevin Spacey is perfect as Prot the self professed alien from the planet K-Pax and Jeff Bridges gives the performance of his life as Dr. Mark Powell, the psychiatrist who's worldview is called into question by his enigmatic patient from another universe.
A treasure to be owned, you'll watch it again and again.
Speaking of Mini DisplayPort, here's another entry from Apple in the shipping hall of shame. They're shipping the five-inch Mini-DiplayPort-to-DVI adapter in a box that's bigger than the MacBook's. Check out the waste.
As Kevin notes, it might seem nitpicky, but when you compare this to how much Apple boasts on the MacBook's green packaging, it is kind of jarring:
