Word: spaceyã
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...manner eerily reminiscent of Keyser Soze’s narrative in The Usual Suspects. As such, the first two-thirds of the film’s action is filtered through Fenton’s perspective and therefore tainted. However, McConaughey is barely worthy to serve even as Kevin Spacey??€™s personal assistant as he authors his own tale. McConaughey lacks the charisma, the composure and the personality quirks to make his recounting of the events truly compelling, although the vignettes depicted on screen do redeem his bland detachment to a certain extent...
...processed into the New York mental health bureaucracy. There he encounters Dr. Mark Powell (Bridges), the one person who might believe his fantastic tale of travel on a beam of light. The film settles into its story during the first interview between Bridges and Spacey, notable only for Spacey??€™s light touch with physical comedy (there’s a running gag involving fruit). The other residents in the hospital, ranging from the self-absorbed Amanda Wingfield-type to a fat guy who thinks everyone stinks, are also introduced to the fascinated alien. It is at this point...
...short way into the story, K-PAX finds itself with nowhere to go. Spacey??€™s alien is buddha-like in his effortless self-satisfaction, but though his smiles are charming, they are a poor substitute for a central character with a compelling purpose. Bridges’ doctor is meant to be the center of the action, but he appears to have little motivation. The duo’s therapy sessions are reduced to casual conversations about the planet K-PAX, and the doctor comes off as a lonely man who wants to chat rather than...
...problem lies in what is supposed to be the real mystery of the movie. Spacey??€™s possible insanity is meant to be an ambiguity, but works only as well as the attempted ambiguity concerning Kevin Kline’s sexual preference in In & Out. The audience has already figured it out in the first few frames of the movie and is ready to move on. There is hardly room to shock people with a Keiser Soze ending...
...middle of the film is that there is no reason to care about the characters. They haven’t done anything to win the audience over. The graceless exposition is a series of short takes, just long enough to reveal relevant facts about Bridges’ family issues, Spacey??€™s good heart and the various personalities of the patients in quick succession. Rarely do the characters interact meaningfully, and they don’t seem to have much at stake as they follow the premise of the movie to its conclusion...
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