A boring and pointless movie which fails to deliver a message.

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 1999)

Being an estimator of stanley kubrick's cinematography, I expected EWS to be a much better movie. Instead, it has been a big delusion.
First tom cruise is absolutely unfit for his role>he is good at piloting jet fighters and making cocktails, but he has nothing to do with the character he plays, nor with the movie and that it is all to evident. Nicole kidman is slightly better and more credible, but that is not enough since her role is indeed secondary to that of her husband. Furthermore, the couple interaction is very limited and remains fundamentally unexplored.
Basically, the movie is about some of kidman's innocent sexual fantasy, which cruise cannot digest. So he tries in every possible way to vindicate his offended ego, without being able to do so, not even in a huge luxury brothel, filled with naked women beyond imaginable and reasonable. And so, after the two stars appear to have metabolised their ghosts, they also came up with the stunning conclusion: we must have more sex!!
My impression is that kubrick had an idea, and was unable to find the ideal actors, so he settled for a second or maybe forth best, since the choices available around where limited. Secondly, I suspect that if the director had had the time to complete his work, this movie would have been substantially different and less clumsy. Finally, if there is something good about the movie, that has more to do with its marketing rather than the movie itself.