Lessen Nicole Kidman's role, and this would've been great.

Rating: 6/10 (31 August 2000)

This film seemed to be composed of two parts. The first had Nicole Kidman seemingly in the picture simply for eye candy. The second, much more interesting storyline had Tom Cruise, and the mystery of the house. Trim Nicole Kidman's part drastically, or better yet cut her out of the film entirely, and this film has the potential to be great. Not to mention it would have been a much needed forty-five minutes shorter. The scenes in the house, while strong for some viewers, is not actually as scandalous as I was expecting from what I'd heard through word of mouth. In fact the only parts of the movie which were offensive to me where the dream sequences which featured Nicole Kidman and the nameless sailor. I found myself wondering what caused her to make such a poor choice in career judgement. The party at the beginning in which she danced with the Hungarian, was uneccessary, and entirely too long. Cut the whole thing. Make Tom Cruise single, or at least make his married life not quite so drawn out, maybe even give Nicole Kidman some intelligent, brief dialogue to deliver, and this would have been in the eight or nine category, instead of a slightly above average 6, for a good idea, which was off by one performance.