Eyes closed open

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2007)

Kubrick's last endeavor, very strange. Kubrick is a very unusual storyteller, albeit he always brings on a host of varying elements that add flavor and usually makes the story transformation into a strange and different world. Cruise is interesting, eerie, as he wades through this tale of an icy and ever so-slightly 'twisted' married couple. I think that Nicole Kidman is beautiful. She seems to bring out more graciousness and expansion to most of everything that she has been cast. She was but a zombie in 'Eyes'. I still believe that she was picture perfect as the wife of the man. From the activity that quietly took place it seemed as if you are on the inside of a private 'members only' life. That this is in a secret place even though you are watching it all happened on the big screen. It takes a lot to bring that sort of experience to the individual viewer. I was in deep and then came the 'party' civil and wild and strange all in once. This film was in the tradition of Kubrick's brilliant vision, although it lacked what much of his other films carried, a certain ingredient. A feeling, even if hopeless, a kind of all encompassing greatness. This didn't have all that sort of Stanley Kubrick's splendor as his past list of work's did. This left me feeling cold at the end, I still had a certain amount of enjoyment from this however.
Three out of four stars. (***) Recommended
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