Not quite the "masterpiece" its made out to be

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2000)

"Eyes Wide Shut" has some good scenes... quite a few good scenes in fact, and alot of the movie is interesting and compelling. However, the ending of this movie totally ruins any kind of interest generated in the first 2 and a half hours. What are we to take away from this film? If we arent supposed to take anything away, what happened to the characters? who were the "cult" members and what is the explanation behind their little world of sex rituals? My point is that this movie leaves behind a 20 ton crate of loose ends. Leaving a loose end or 2 can sometimes add insight or meaning to a film. Leaving the entire picture unrealized and unresolved is a travesty, especially when the events leading up to the ending are all at once intriguing, interesting, erotic, mysterious, so many things. This could have been a great picture had they not made the decision to castrate the film at the very end. The only other Kubrick movie i have seen (and remembered) is "A Clockwork Orange", which i found to be a vulgar and perverted film masqueraded in the term "art" , but that was merely for the subject matter it entailed. Kubrick's style of direction does work very well.. but i just cant figure out the meaning or point of this film. email me what you think, because believe me i am interested to know.