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  Review by Deckk ★★★★ 3

  100-word review: I don't know whether this film's so-so average score stems from the fact that Kevin Spacey plays the lead role in it — and I don't blame people rating it low for that reason, if that's the case — but personally I find K-PAX to be a captivating mystery where the twist is about whether or not the film is also a science-fiction, and it's chiefly thanks to Spacey's smug, credible, and discordant performance that it works as such. The conversation 'game' played between him and Bridges is spellbinding, kinda in the same vein as The Man from Earth.

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 29

  mollie thompson - the cockeyed ballad (1966) youtu.be/Dxbqz-6HDHw

  canibus - master thesis (2002) youtu.be/DkOd18KVkog

  i. after years of canibus telling me to watch this while thinking spaceys name was k-pax (run, die hard, run!) i finally did and, shit-- this is a contactee movie! like georges adamski or king, van tassel & his integratron voices of enoch, orthon & ashtar, rael & unarius-ruth-uriel, even ti & do peep all descended from swedenborgian angels, theosophy's ascended masters, post-astral mormons & comte de saint germain of mt shasta's prickly "I AM" movement, 7 heavenly trumpets blaring thru cracks in the walls of our prison like john's in revelation--blinded spacey's fruit-addict extraterrestial "prot" (NOT "k-pax") even rocks stunna shades like king's 1959 interplanetary parliament video: pd187.neocities.org/ufo/ufos_in_atlanta/1959-George_King-Aetherius_Mars_Venus_Speak_To_Earth.jpg

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★½ 10

  “It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”

  
  Our past and our mind are conjoined twins, teleporting thoughts and emotions back forth instantaneously, throughout our lifetime via their inseverable binding. Their time of birth is a few nanoseconds apart and even though they continue to co-exist from that moment on, they become fully cognizant of each other's significance and their mutual reliance only several years later. Our past is bestrewn with sweet, bittersweet and traumatic memories. It is an unchangeable, unavoidable record of occurrences, out of which the most prominent reverberations remain permanently etched in our minds, forever ready to be summoned at a moment's notice to affect us. These protuberant memories continually chisel our present…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 21

  you can't psychoanalyze the paranormal -- freud instituted a tyrannical hierarchy where the analyst could 'objectively' evaluate psychological phenomena and place it into this-or-that disorder so that your personality become subsumed and replaced by the label of being 'psychotic' or having a 'complex' -- but it was far from being complex, and amounted in the end towards stripping a patient of their humanity by pathologizing their behavior, saying that no one 'actually' has a substantial experience in the aristotelian sense, but that all human behavior can be reduced to the idiotic interplay of 'drives' -- eros, thanatos -- all human behavior, that is, except for the psychoanalyst's, who of course stays 'above the fray' and is arbitrarily able to judge…

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  Review by Lise ★ 19

  I gave this film 1 star as a punishment rather than leave it unrated, all because it is obviously a remake or if not that then a re-imagining of Man Facing Southeast, and yet there is no credit at all anywhere in the film to indicate this. In fact, the makers of the film expressly denied having ever heard of Man Facing Southeast. With such an original story, that is highly unlikely. There is very little that I find more disgusting than stealing like this. All they had to do was add a credit.

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½ 2

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  2001 Marathon - Film #140

  ”He claims to be not human.”

  A smug Kevin Spacey comes to earth to visit the cuckoo’s nest and teach us about ourselves while playing a game of “Is He - Isn’t He” with El Duderino.

  ”I detect a note of skepticism, Dr. Powell.”

  
  Cinematic Time Capsule - 2001 Ranked

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  Review by Alex Johan ★★★★½

  I travel light.

  K-PAX is a beautiful movie with twist and turns that can be interpreted in many ways.
  Kevin Spacey does an amazing performance and makes the movie his own. Spacey manages to be do the best peformance in this movie despite having a faceless expression but he turns that to his favor by making the strong scenes stronger.

  But Spacey isn't the only one who makes this movie great
  the camerawork is fantastic with clever use of the light in both from a apperance and story standpoint.
  The movies have alot of great scenes between Spacey and Birdges that can be dramatic but also really funny.
  I see many mixed opinons about this movie and I can understand people that don't like it because some characters are used way to little but despite that I thought the movie was great!

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  Review by Cristian Torres ★★ 3

  "You humans" said the pedophile.

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  Review by David James 🍩 ★★★★ 6

  I shall miss Earth, it has great potential.

  K-PAX was one of the first dvds I ever bought and was in regular rotation back in the day, twenty three years ago. This was when Kevin Spacey was riding a high after American Beauty and Jeff Bridges was... well he was just continuing to be awesome like he still is today. The supporting cast, mostly colorful residents of a New York psych ward, features Ajay Naidu, Celia Weston, Saul Williams, and my man Patrick David Kelly from Twin Peaks in possibly the most affecting role I've ever seen from him. The music is a glistening mixture of burgeoning trance and ambient with a more traditional orchestral lean. The cinematography is somewhat…

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  Review by ʟᴜғғʏ ★★★★

  Is it just me or does kevin spacey do a lot of movies that leave you in awe in the end ?
  well whatever it is, if you will excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.

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  Review by Colin the dude ★ 5

  I want to recap how wild Spacey's career was after winning his second Oscar. He hopped on the caboose of the 90s indie roller coaster early on and ticked slowly up, film after film, until reaching the era's apex in 1999, the year American Beauty became this breakout phenomenon, and as soon as Y2K hit, it was Pay it Forward and K-PAX and suddenly Spacey was screaming all the way down the career coaster until it hit creative oblivion. Definitely a victim of an Oscar curse, but weirdly only after his second award. But my honest opinion is that Spacey hasn't been in a great film in over twenty years and if you really look at the output this century,…

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  Review by maneleeo ★★★ 2

  A film that actually made me believe, even though it was incredibly absurd and even touching on the weird side of things. It's too sentimental at times, and the drama overtakes the bizarre turns the plot takes. But, as I've said, it's a film that made me believe, and that is weird. I can't say I loved it, but I know I was into it, even if I didn't love it visually speaking. Jeff Bridges' performance reminded me of other roles just like the one in "Blown Away". Kevin Spacey seems cold and warm at the same time, but I can't really say it was his character (or Bridges' as a matter of fact) that sold the film, perhaps the plot itself.