Would you credit it? It was Sunday night, I was wide awake� and there were 10 minutes left to the end. And, whoah, no - I was asleep!
So if you want to know what happens at the end if you ain't seen it, we're in the same capsized boat� because I want to know too. I did have it explained to me by a friend, but believe me - I ended up more confused than I would have been in a not-knowing situation!
There's no wonder really when this movie is one of the strangest and most bewilderingly upfront flicks ever to have been granted funding. Starring the cool John Cusack, he's a filing clerk who falls through a hole in his office's wall and ends-up in the mind of Malkovich, seeing what he sees and wondering 'what the hell?!'
And that's the premise� nothing more, little less - and the rest is left to crazily toy with our imagination.
Directed by 'Jackass'-cohort Spike Jonze, madness comes in all shapes and sizes and then in this movie, that's as madcap as a mad-hatter in Manhattan.
And if you need cheering up, check out the scene when Malkovich himself slides down the portal into his own mind, in which he's disturbingly surrounded by male and female look-alikes chanting 'Malkovich! Malkovich!! Malkovich!!!,' as good sport John sends himself up and then some.
And while the characters in the movie aren't really sure just what films the man of the movie has starred in, I remember him best in the lesser-known but heartbreaking and spellbinding Spielberg-manned World War 2 drama 'Empire of The Sun' that has the starring role well and truly stolen by a young Christian ('American Psycho') Bale�
As for 'Being John Malkovich,' this is must-see, cutting-edge comedy at its most zany and original.
(STEVE RUDD)