disgraceful, rotten, pretentious nonsense

Rating: 1/10 (8 September 2001)

I loved everything that Stanley Kubrick did, and made a special effort to see this. What a mistake! From the opening (Nicole Kidman on the toilet....was that really necessary?) through its endless over-talkative, pretentious so-called "twists" I remained totally bored. The only thing one can say about this tosh is that the only talent wasted on it was Kubrick's. Neither Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman have talent to waste: both are greatly over-rated.