Well crafted, dreamy film

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's final film was well worth the wait.
Meticulously crafted as with all of Kubrick's films, Eyes Wide Shut moves slowly but provides many interesting moral scenarios for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's characters to contend with.
Many scenes, including the ritual-like scene in which Cruise's character finds himself within a ceremony of masked, zombie-like people, grow on the viewer and provide a nightmarish world, while being completely believable.
The film does not tie up all ends, and of course moves at a very deliberate pace, but it is never dull, and like other Kubrick films like Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, is impossible for the viewer to remove from memory.