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4.0 out of 5 stars A comment on K-Pax, October 9, 2006

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magellan (Santa Clara, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: [10 Sci-Fi Movies] Things to Come (1936), Metropolis (1927), the Lost World (1925), Frozen Alive (1964), the Day Time Ended (1980), Slipstream (1989), Journey to the Center of Time (1967), Unknown World (1951), in the Year 2889 (1966), K-Pax (2002) (DVD)

Please note that this review is just on the movie, K Pax, in this set.

K-Pax was one of the better movies of the year when it came out in 2001, and I found I liked it better than I was expecting. Spacey is excellent as usual, and Jeff Bridges as his therapist has a very sympathetic role and also does a great job. Interestingly, this time Bridges plays the earthman instead of the alien visitor, as he did in his 80s movie, Starman, an underrated Bridges flick that deserves to be better known. Spacey almost had me convinced that he really was from another planet, expecially after the great scene where he amazes and confounds the assembled astronomers with his knowledge of the distant solar system.

The movie is somewhat schizoid because of the contrast between the first and second halves of the movie, but I really didn't mind that too much. The first half of the movie has a much lighter tone and is the most fun, as we learn about Prot, Spacey's otherworldly (literally) character from the planet K-PAX, and the relationship between Bridges, the psychiatrist, and Spacey, is developed.

But the movie takes on a distinctly dark and sinister tone in the second half, as Dr. Powell becomes convinced that Spacey could turn violent and sets out to discover the true nature of Spacey's past, which leads him to an abandoned farm in New Mexico.

My only complaint is that they could have found a better ending. By the end of the movie, you've come to like and sympathize with the unworldly, eccentric but likable Prot character, but then he basically turns into a vegetable at the end of the film and the movie falls flat. But except for that, overall I enjoyed the movie. Big Bubba says go see it and don't Bogart the popcorn.