A Free Pass To An Orgy To Any Reader That's Made It This Far!

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 1999)

Just briefly, I will add that "Eyes Wide Shut" is, as many of my five-hundred-plus fellow commenteers have said, no "Full Metal Jacket"or "Dr. Strangelove." In fact, it's not even "Barry Lyndon!" Yet it is a fascinating journey through one man's obsession with his wife's potential for infidelity and his own determination to achieve it. Tom Cruise (not one of my favorite leading men) gives a surprisingly moving performance, and Nicole Kidman is as intriguing and sexy as ever. As for dear old Stanley ... well, how many directors in history have included a chocolatey bacchanal worthy of Caligula in their final film? Oi vey, what a swansong!