ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2002)

Sadly, no amount of 2001's, Dr. Strangelove's, Shining's, Barry Lyndon's, or Full Metal Jacket's will wash away the foul taste of this useless excuse for a movie.
I am a Stanley Kubrick fan (or was), but Eyes Wide Shut has nothing to recommend it. It takes an 2 1/2 hours to get delve into a marriage and come up with absolutely no insights whatsoever. The characters are shallow and uninteresting, the orgy plot is predictable and pointless, and the mood of the film was somewhere between dull and turgid (I don't think this is what Kubrick was going for).
Face it, Kubrick really failed with this one (and Spielberg's AI, which was primarily developed by Kubrick, wasn't much better). Kubrick's status as the darling of artsy film buffs may prevent some from seeing the truth about this movie but I will not delude myself. This movie is crap.