Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Catherina
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
btm1
The two stars of the film are John Malkovich and Ann Magnuson. John Malkovich is now renowned as a consummate actor, and in this film he has a tour de force in a dual role playing Dr. Jeff Peters, an all-serious engineer/scientist and the look-alike android he created for a one-person multi-year deep space mission which the characters believe would be too lonely for a human to endure. Unfortunately, Ann Magnuson did not enjoy similar success as a film actress following this part. I found that surprising because she was truly excellent as Frankie Stone, a respected publicist hired to convince the government to provide funds for continuation of Dr. Peters' deep space project. Frankie's approach is to make the android (named Ulysses) more engaging and interesting to the general public during interviews. That is, to make it more human-like. Magnuson, a red-head, was around 30 years old when the film was made, and I thought at times that I was watching a 30 year old Shirley MacLaine.The style of the film as a whole seemed to me to belong to an earlier time in the film industry, more like 1950s era romantic comedies. I checked to see if the film had been made earlier and not released until 1987, but found nothing to indicate that. Perhaps I'm just not remembering that time period accurately.
lisafordeay
I saw this on TV 2 nights ago as I never seen it before and I thought it was a bit stupid. The film is about a woman who falls in love with an android who is like the creator that made him. The android of course has human charctheristics and falls for the woman also leaving their relationship at jeopardy.The story is a bit dull as its weird having a woman falling for an android I mean COME ON how is she suppose to be with someone who isn't real. It just doesn't make sense.The ending was a bit of a letdown and the music was OK I guess.Im giving this a 4/10 because I didn't really like it.
mustican
John Malkovich stars in Making Mr right as a scientist who makes a robotic version of himself to be used in a space mission. The company he is working for hires a women to teach the robot about emotions. But she falls in love with the robot. I don't have much to say about John Malkovich who gets the job done as usual. For some reason, this film didn't make me laugh in the parts I was supposed to. Ann Magnuson is not really convincing for her part. Okay, this is not supposed to be a serious film but again with the material we are talking about, a much better movie could have been done. She looks more like the wife of the senator who spends all her day shopping and changing hairstyle. There are some moments of the film you can smile but that's all. By the way nobody buys this robot's way of learning to impress a woman. Even a real person can't make it right with only one go. I think we are shown only the surface of the film, but in a romantic comedy audience expect to see a bit of deepness too. This is a big miss in Making Mr Right. * out of *****
Havan_IronOak
This film is about what happens when a chemical company hires a PR woman to program their Android when they are worried about losing funding for a deep space program. Right. Ok, as far as I was concerned with a plot like that it was doomed from the start. But I was surprised. It is a measure of the John Malkovich's ability that when he was on the screen, even this movie lost some of its inane quality and actually had a few good moments. This is far from being a good movie but Malkovich does make it almost watchable.
Also, there is also enough late 80's technology present in this film that its interesting from a pop history perspective. Seeing folks at the wedding lugging around a camcorder that's larger than my current VCR brought back memories. Also our heroine lugs an old-fashioned Filo-Fax everywhere. Remember those big wheels that held paper cards with contact data?
