A dissapointing two hours and thirty-nine minutes.

Rating: 3/10 (20 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut was a huge letdown, when compared to Kubrick's other films. I was lucky enough to see this film during a early screening so i did not have to pay the seven dollars it would normally cost to see a movie. I would not even pay the couple dollars it would cost to rent Eyes Wide Shut.
Eyes Wide Shut is being billed as a steamy love story between Kidman and Cruise and as Kubrick's last masterpiece. It is neither. Yea there are some romantic encounters between Cruise and Kidman but they are done in the first twenty minutes of the movie. True this is the late Kubrick's last film, but it falls well short of a masterpiece.
The last two plus hours of Eyes Wide Shut shows Kidman and Cruise crying to each other. There are reasons to become a little upset but there is nothing in the film that should cause such crying fits as Cruise and Kidman display.
There are more deadspots in this movie than in all the documentaries made in 1999. Many of the shots in the movie have no bearing on the plot and could be shortened and/or cut out completely. The last two hours of Eyes Wide Shut could easily be condensed into an hour and lose none of it's supposed thrill.