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Title: Shoot this one into outer space.
Review: With movies like *American Beauty*, *Pay It Forward*, the recently released *The Shipping News*, and this turkey, *K-PAX*, the name of Kevin Spacey is becoming associated in my mind with mawkish, pretentious, and just downright bad films. In this one, he plays Prot, who is either a genuine spaceman or just a garden-variety madman. No matter which, really: he's annoying either way. Spacey phones this performance in (from outer space?), content to hide behind a pair of dark sunglasses and his trademark smug smirk. His co-star, Jeff Bridges, as the psychiatrist who is reluctant to believe that Prot is really an alien, is humiliatingly subordinate -- constantly made a fool of by the Spacey character, constantly one-upped. (Even the cover art for the DVD conveys this.) Surely Bridges deserves better . . . to say nothing of the audience.
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