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A Masterpiece!

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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.

I don't know. Just,just I don't know if it is the best.There have been plenty.E.T, Contact,even Cameron's Aliens are some of the best.Forget about the planet of X,Y,Z.Till.Till the time I watched it...It is devoid of some gun power, if you are into that thing for an alien movie.Its devoid of scenes where a giant alien is hovering over L.A and the US Air force is trying to bring it down.You are not going to find a skimpily clad fallen angel here.But what you are going to have is worth of a lifetime.An alien.Pun intended. An alien who is going back to his own planet.And before that he needs to finish a Herculean task of changing human psychology of how you take your things.May be a doctor- patient,a wife-husband, a son-father or may be even inter-inmates- relationship - this film cleverly did not distinguish any human distinctions or any boundaries just the way our Prot did not know about any relation, families or even boundaries back home.There are no thrilling stunts, there are no aerial adventures, still it gets you clung to to your seat while you watch it just because it remained correct in one thing-there is still time to rectify the human errs, there is still scopes to make amends for the follies we make in our daily lives.We do not get to see what the people of K-Pax are like, but we realize what magic can human emotions do.Do we really need to be reminded of what the protagonists are capable of? Haven't we watched the American Beauty or the Crazy Heart? We know by now what Kevin Spacey or Jeff Bridges can deliver.Something unearthly beautiful when their skills are so beautifully portrayed on screen.And if those merge? Bingo...So here we go.See the fire powers together in the same frame while you hail Mr.Iain Softley for making this brilliant movie.Emotional,power packed,humane- K-PAX is an unforgettable experience of a lifetime...

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.

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.