Spectacular letdown

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 1999)

Amazing visual richness, but unforgivably shallow for the man who made Dr. Strangelove and Clockwork Orange. Tom's tolerable, Nicole's naked a lot - and tries too hard (with little success) to be more than a pretty piece of ass. The pot-smoking scene is pretentious enough to possibly win her an Oscar.
A snooze for anyone who is expecting the kind of intellectual depth and unforgiving, un-sentimental outlook to life evidenced in Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon or Full Metal Jacket. See it in the theater if you get off on Cinematography. Watch the director's cut on video if you get off on nudity. Skip it altogether if you want to remember Kubrick as a superb film-maker.