This might have made a decent short film, about 20 minutes long. I’d recommend anyone watching this, actually, to stop it after 20 minutes and take it as a short, because after that point it becomes completely repetitious, so much so that I cannot right now remember any specific scenes as being near the the beginning or near the end. It was like the same thing playing over and over again, only with Malkovich becoming more and more annoying as time wears on. Speaking of John Malkovich, I think that I don’t like him as an actor after this film. I haven’t seen too many things with him, maybe four or five, but he is the same character in everything. He reminds a little bit of Samuel L. Jackson actually. There was an homage to the one good film that I have seen him in, Being John Malkovich, that came off just as lazy as the rest of the film.
Basically, this film was trying to honor Stanley Kubrick in an interesting way and failed. A man took advantage of Kubrick’s reclusion from the press and pretended to be him to benefit from the perks of fame, like free entrance to clubs, extra trust from people expecting money, and a general kindness from strangers. This could have been pulled off very well, but there is no development at all for this man, why he feels the need to do this, why he’s chosen Mr. Kubrick (he’s clearly not a fan as he couldn’t even remember his somewhat sparse filmography), or the relationship between this stunt and his blatant homosexuality. Instead, it is scene after scene of him conning people until they discover that he is not Kubrick. It was fun the first time, boring the second, and annoying the rest. And John Malkovich acts like John Malkovich, again.