Proves Tom Cruise is no actor

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2004)

I admit that Mr Cruise is not my favourite screen star by any means, and this is the only film of his I forced myself to sit through to the end, mainly because of the fact it was Stanley Kubrick's final film.
Using a celebrity couple to play the leads doesn't work at all, and the soon-to-split Cruise and Kidman have no chemistry whatsoever in what is trying desperately to be a daring, racy plot. Trouble is, it is neither. The best bit was probably the orgy scene and that reminded me of something from The Story of O anyway (where it would have been done much better).
A huge disappointment, Eyes Wide Shut meanders all over its three hour running time and goes nowhere. By the end I didn't care enough to tie up loose ends. Far from Kubrick's best.