A Character Driven Movie with Weak Characters Disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (22 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut is a technically excellent film. A real tour de force in style and mood. But considering that it is really a character study it fails because the Cruise and Kidman characters are flat and uninteresting and we have almost no empathy for them. The motivations and emotional trials of the main characters, especially of the Cruise character, seem weak or non-existent.
And the ending is a mess. Everything explained away through expostion is simply sloppy and unfufilling writing.