Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

exiliada 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.

Red-Barracuda A derelict man is lifted by the police after an incident in a train station. He subsequently insists his name is Prot and he is from a planet called K-PAX, so he is taken to a mental hospital to be analysed, while there he helps everyone he encounters see the light.This is a clear example of a movie that uses its sci-fi premise to tell us things about ourselves. It's a bit of a clichéd idea and in this case it is done in an excessively syrupy and patronising manner. Kevin Spacey is possibly the most annoying alien to ever have visited Earth; he manages to navigate the entire running time of the movie with a smug, self-satisfied, look on his face. Predictably, he turns out to be an extra-terrestrial who knows humans better than humans, while the inmates of the asylum know more about what's really going on than the doctors, etc etc etc. It's all very tedious and trite. So much so that I was sort of hoping the doctors would re-introduce electro-shock therapy for Prot and his fellow inmates. Additionally, this is a movie with a relentlessly delicate piano-driven soundtrack that started to grate on me after a bit on account of its overbearing worthiness.K-PAX is certainly watchable and has a premise that is pretty decent but it is executed in a manner that undermines its potential effectiveness. It also stars Jeff Bridges as a psychiatrist who needs an alien make him aware that he should spend more time with his son.

Jasraj Rajkhokar This movie.. man.. it takes you away to another place altogether. I don't usually write reviews, but i had to write for this wonderful movie. It is unlikely that you will ever see a movie like this again. The beautiful way it displays emotions and humanity, with both the lead actors acting superbly, is the reason that even after watching the movie once, i keep finding myself watching it over and over again. Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of this generation, so is Jeff Bridges. The soundtrack is so immensely beautiful, that by solely listening to the music, you can find yourself transported to anywhere you like. It will change your outlook of life. Its underrated, sure, but as i said.. No words to express what this movie is.

gavin6942 Prot (Kevin Spacey) is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet called K-PAX. His psychiatrist (Jeff Bridges) tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.Apparently, at one point Will Smith was supposed to be Prot and Kevin Spacey was the doctor. That is completely unimaginable. Smith is a bit of a stretch for the alien role (though he could do it), and Spacey is clearly stronger as the alien than as a doctor (though he is always great).What makes this film so good is that while the viewer believes that Prot is an alien, it is never definitely established. Every so often the doctor throws in a doubt here or there. The line between genius and madman is dangerously thin.Roger Ebert wrote, "I admired how the movie tantalized us with possibilities and allowed the doctor and patient to talk sensibly, if strangely, about the difference between the delusional and that which is simply very unlikely." The film was also alleged to be plagiarized from "Man Facing Southeast" (1986), an Argentinian movie. As I have never seen that film, I cannot comment on any similarities.