oh my God

Rating: 1/10 (25 July 1999)

Before I start, my apologies to the memory of Stanley Kubrick. I truly enjoyed his work especially the Clockwork Orange. However, his last work, Eyes Wide Shut, has to be one of if not the worst movie I have ever seen. It dragged horribly. There were times when you could have driven a mack truck through the dialogue. It was uninteresting. I knew how it would end ten minutes into it, and I desperately wanted to walk out on it at that minute but remained in the hope that there would be a surprise or a turn around. There wasn't. The question that kept running through my mind while hating this movie was, "How many people can come on to Tom Cruise in one movie?" Every ten minutes someone is trying to get in this man's pants, two women at once, a woman who had just lost her father who lay dead in the bed next to her and Cruise as she professes her undying love, a man, and a few women in the orgy scene. Don't get me wrong, Cruise is beautiful but please cut us all a break especially since all he is in this film is pretty. His acting left very much to be desired, but that's really nothing new. He has his shining moments (Interview with a Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Born on the Fourth of July) but mostly he's trite. His wife, Nicole Kidman, was the true disappointment of this movie. Her American accent was dead on but everything else felt very forced. She did not become her character for one second in this film, and after her performance in To Die For we know that she can if she wants to. Perhaps she refused to do so, I know I wouldn't want to be her. About her I continued to wonder how often a person can say fuck in one movie, or even one sentence. Her use of the word approached ludicrous proportions. The positives of the film all came from the directing and lighting choices. They effectively created the eerie atmosphere the movie demanded, but the acting and script shot all of that straight to hell. Don't see this film.