So bland and punchless that it may prompt more yawns than grins from audiences.
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10/26/01
K-Pax (2001)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:56
Rotten:80
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: For those who have seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Starman, K-Pax may not hold anything new. The movie works best as a showcase for Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A mysterious man (Kevin Spacey) shows up in Grand Central Station claiming to be an alien, and is promptly taken to a mental institution. When he doesn't respond to medication, he begins seeing a... [More]
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard, Mary McCormack
Director: Iain Softley
Reviews for K-Pax
Its conflict is so understated, and takes so long to engage us, that the film is as flat as a stretch of Interstate 70 east of Denver.
10/26/01
I admired how the movie tantalized us with possibilities...
10/26/01
Top CriticMerely calling such heady issues to the attention of filmgoers (who are urged to stay through the credits for a final tag at the end) is enough to leave most heads spinning and spirits soaring.
10/26/01
Here [Spacey's] so good, and so compulsively watchable, that the producers never had to spend a dime on a spaceship.
10/26/01
Everyone say Awww... it’s Heartwarming(TM)!"
10/26/01
K-PAX suggests that perhaps the answers we find or conclusions we reach are less important than the questions we ask.
10/26/01
Succeeds in being a satisfying, thought-provoking experience.
10/26/01
The way K-PAX starts, you know there's no good way for it to end.
10/26/01
Well-produced but overly mechanical.
10/26/01
If you're the kind of person that questions the fantastic and expects a story to respect its own logic, then you should take some aspirin before seeing this movie.
10/25/01
Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.
10/25/01
Relatively entertaining and certainly easy enough to sit through.
10/25/01
It's hard to see how K-PAX could be made any better than it is.
10/25/01
K-PAX is clearly a showcase for Kevin Spacey, who has actually won two Oscars (including one for his supporting role in The Usual Suspects) and who really ought to know better.
10/25/01
Softley opts for cloying treacle when he should have gone for creepy poignancy.
10/25/01
A draggy, earnest exercise in pseudo-spiritual uplift, recycling romantic hokum about extraterrestrial life and mental illness with wide-eyed sincerity.
10/25/01
Top CriticK-PAX begs more questions than it answers, though Spacey manages to make you not mind the confusion as much.
10/25/01
When talented leads are talking, K-Pax rules.
10/25/01
As billowy as a pillow.
10/25/01
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