Hyper advertized but highly disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 1999)

Stanley Kubrick after making great movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Clockwork Orange, attempts to make an erotic-drama/ suspense movie during the last days of his career. He fails miserably at it.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman give incredibly self-conscious performances. Stanley probably wanted the tension and fear in the movie to build up naturally and hence might have decided to work with barely any background music. Added to this is the nauseatingly SLOW dialogue. The slow pace might help build tension in a lot of the cases, but in this movie it makes things WORSE..the reason very very self-conscious performances. it is very obvious that one the Hollywood's hottest couples when shown together in a supposedly-big-movie, turn into utterly self conscious and highly uncool couple.
Well so much about the presentation...The content of the film has very explicit graphic sexuality. Even these parts aren't captivating.....
The worst part of all, I was dying from the start through the end waiting for a joke that could even make me smile!!!! Some one in the movie hall more desperate than me went into an audible laughter exactly 2 times in the entire film. A movie that is supposed to be about relationships but neither funny nor engrossing...you probably know by now whether you should watch this infinitely boring erotic-drama/thriller.