surprisingly novel-accurate

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut, unlike most of Stanley Kubrick's book-based films, follows the source quite accurately. Kubrick has been notorious for changing drastically the story or ideas of the source when converting it to film, but besides from the completely necessary modernization of the story, Eyes Wide Shut sticks to the book quite well. I think this is a great film regardless of what critics might say, and I think it is worthy of much praise. It is comedic, frightening, and scandalous... all together, a film definitely Kubrick signature material. I highly recommend it.