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Being John Malkovich (1999)
Being a Lemon
Sorry to all those John Malkovitch lovers out there but this film really takes the biscuit at showing the actor in his worst light. The puppetry work was indeed amazing and probably the films only saving grace. John Malkovitch is his usual creepy self and the supporting actors in this film are shown in their least flattering light - the plot was inane and pretentious and I struggled to get through the entire film through sheer boredom. I personally fail to see any "genius" factor in this film, I think the producers must have been on magic mushrooms throughout the entire project. I am biased though, as I really do not like JM - even though some of his films have been excellent namely Dangerous Liasons for one even though his character was particularly insidious. Don't waste your time on this lemon - it comes across as a flaccid Hollywood attempt at European styled creativity - avoid
Klimt (2006)
Save the admission fee.....
Like other reviewers I expected more from this film and left the cinema both angry and annoyed at the historical inaccuracies regarding Klimt's life and death. These are the aimless meanderings of a film director who clearly disappeared into his own orifice and where the sun doesn't shine. Klimt is represented as a neurotic diseased immoral individual which could not be further from the truth if you research his life. I've always regarded John Malkovich as an overrated Ham with a decidedly creepy persona evident in all his films and been continually astonished at his selection for almost all of his roles. The other reviewers are right - this one is a stinker and the artist Klimt deserves a better epitaph.