k-pax

Inspired by the recent testimony of respected former defence official David Grusch, who confirmed before a congressional comittee that the US has been operating an extra-terrestrial crash retrieval and reverse engineering programme for decades, Dan chose the 2001 sci-fi K-PAX for us to cast our eye over.

Iain Softley brings an adaptation of Gene Brewer's 1995 novel telling the tale of "prot" (Kevin Spacey), committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan and placed into the care of wearied workaholic, doctor Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges). Claiming to be an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', Powell attempts to gently pierce prot's delusion by piecing together his backstory even as he comes to doubt exactly what he has uncovered. Both leads are excellent - Spacey does smugly vulnerable to perfection - and with an interestingly ambiguous ending and themes about hope and who we turn to for spiritual guidance, even an initially reluctant Sidey found himself engaged by this one.

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