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How sad is this?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie is not awful in itself--but it is awful that Universal Studios continued with the project AFTER two producers in 1994 saw Man Facing Southeast, and could not fail to notice that the novel K-pax whose rights Universal had purchased, plagiarized said movie. Man Facing Southeast (Argentina, 1987, dir. Eliseo Subiela) is a beautiful movie that leaves you wondering, that evokes nostalgia and magic and sadness and joy. The scene with Ode to Joy brings tears to your eyes, it is that beautiful... while K-Pax is a simplified story written by a simple, thieving little mind, where the magic and the ambiguity and the wondering are substituted by environmentalism. Wow. So if you feel like watching a movie about a man who may or may not be an alien, or a lunatic, and his relationship with a psychiatrist, please see Man Facing Southeast.

K-Pax (2001): Dir: Iain Softley / Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly: Kevin Spacey plays Prot who claims to be from the planet K-Pax. Title sounds more like a battery charger than a planet. Anyway, Prot is arrested at the airport when a misunderstanding occurs. Jeff Bridges plays a psychiatrist who is bewildered at Prot's unique style of thinking. Prot really believes who he is and at one point Bridges arranges a meeting with his brother-in-law who is into astronomy. Prot overwhelms them with information that he considers common knowledge on K-Pax. Eventually hypnosis is suggested where crucial information surfaces. Interesting idea lacks payoff and renders to absurdity and an ending that leaves loose ends. Directed by Iain Softley who made the much more absorbing The Wings of the Dove. Despite his best efforts, this film cannot master up a serious note and becomes a joke. Spacey with Bridges are fine actors who cannot save this film. Spacey's psycho babble is laughable at best and the overall mystery is never solved. Bridges is also reduced to a standard straight forward role. His patients are seen merely as fillers. Mary McCormack is flat as Bridges's wife. Routine and often frustrating mind screw that uses its subject matter as a ploy to jerk us around. It is very manipulating in that it answers nothing. Score: 2 / 10

As time goes by this movie proves/reproves itself as a a pinnacle of life's hard earned wisdom. While i loved this move 10+ yrs ago, i decided to re- watch with my other daughters... and wow i found that i had not even come close to really understanding the full message, and i'm not sure that i ever will entirely. "Every being in the universe knows right from wrong" is the line in this movie that makes me question government, religion and pretty much everything. It's extremely rare movies like this that i go to in order to having a remote chance at understanding the real nature of why were here. I have to give this a 10 because it just continues to stick with me in way that is different from most.

This grew on me as it went on. It has an intriguing premise but starts off a little slow, and is a quiet sort of movie. It's helped along by the talents of Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges and also a large secondary cast who are all interesting.Kevin Spacey is pretty awesome (funny, sarcastic, heartbreaking) as "Prot", a homeless man who claims to be from another planet. Committed to a mental hospital, he's treated by a psychiatrist (Bridges) who is at first is intrigued by his tales and then as he becomes more involved realizes the effect Prot is having on the other patients and tries to figure out how to help him.There is a scene where Spacey is under hypnosis and he switches from manic to calm in a blip, super impressive.I found myself throughout this wanting to believe that Prot was actually from K-Pax. And there's a bit of a mystery involved as Bridges tries to find clues as to his real identity, where is he from, what happened to him, How does he know all the science/universe stuff he does? Is he really an alien or just a damaged man who has chosen to live in an alternate reality because of some kind of trauma? I really wanted to believe. Towards the end Prot sets himself a time to return to K-Pax, promising to take one of the patients with him and so he does...This is one of those science fiction based on reality types of movies which can be tricky to pull off and I'm not really sure this works as its neither sci-fi or drama but I will say that I was affected by the end and left with questions which means I'm still thinking about it -always a good sign. 1/13/15 Nice little cameo from a very young (and cute) Aaron Paul.