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"K-PAX"
(Reviewed October 12, 2001)
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Boring, precious, inappropriately earnest story of a guy (Kevin Spacey) who gets tossed into the most unconvincingly free-and-easy party-central psychiatric ward on earth when he insists that he is an alien named Prot from the planet K-PAX. Not really funny enough to be a comedy or convincing enough to be a drama, it plays like a head-on collision between "What About Bob?", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and this year's own "Happy Accidents" (in which Vincent Donofrio spent two hours claiming to be from the future).
I can't get worked up enough about this movie to hate it, but it all seemed kind of pointless. Worse, it contradicts itself at the end, considering that we were told earlier that Spacey possesses an inhuman ability to see ultraviolet light. Dumb.
Back Row Grade: D
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