The best had to be his last.

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut is the most surreal of any of Kubrick's films. No other contains any dream sequences. That are shot totally different from the rest of the film(the Black & White sequences). Nor are the characters "Doomed" as the others are in past. We are left with the feeling that the story as a whole was a long nightmare that is ending with the last line in the film.
The only thing left out was the black humor that has become his trade mark.
Even after seeing the second time the potency, of the second time for me had the same heat pounding effect as, it did the first time. It is a total departure from the central themes that have become to be known as "Kubrickian". The characters are more real and less fictional. It is a shame that Warner Bros. marketed in a way that made the public perceive it to be a film about wild sex. When it is about the problems that every day married co