"I miss Kubrick"

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2004)

"Full Metal Jacket", "Lolita","A Clockwork Orange", these classics were ahead of there time, now these movies are being hailed as the best of Kubrick's films. "Eye's Wide Shut" was Kubrick's last film, he took a chance and has made a film that is in it's own class, and has created a dark yet clever film.
THE PLOT
A doctor (Tom Cruise) who is married to an artist, finds out that she almost cheated on him, then he goes on an odyssey of sex and murder.
When I first heard of Stanley Kubrick's latest film, I was expecting a sexual, cinematic film. But then I saw the film, and I was dissapointed with the darkness, the acting, and the orgy scene. Well if that's an orgy, I don't want to be in one. It was scary. I didn't like the film at first, but then I saw it two more times, and I began to think, can sex drive people to murder.
2001: A Space Odyssey
I looked at all of Kubrick's films before I saw "Eye's Wide Shut", and I realized that he's the kind of director that show's the dark, inmoral side of human being's, so I decided this is an instant Kubrick classic. However, Kubrick does demonstrate hope in some of his films. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is one of the best films of the 20th century. As I remembered the ending, that showed a man being reborn in space as a baby, it brought tears in my eye's.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
This is another good film by Kubrick. It's about a man who is a rapist, and a killer. But when he's arrested, they put him through a treatment that will change his whole life. When the treatment is over, one of consequences of it is that he realizes that every time he throws up, he is thinking of sex with women. He curses, and tries to be violent but it is impossible. The ending shows that he has had some redemption, but maybe he didn't really learn anything.
FULL METAL JACKET
The action is savage, and this is a superb film. The ensemble cast falls into action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War that shows the horrible process that turns people into killers. "Full Metal Jacket", from its basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.
I love "Eye's Wide Shut." I give it ****(out of 4 stars)