I can't believe I watched the whole thing....

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2000)

I can't believe that Tom Cruise and Nichole Kidman could have lowered themselves to do such a horrid movie. If you can stay awake through all the street walking and driving around in the car scenes you are rewarded by conversations between characters you don't even care about, Tom Cruise's blank stares and Nichole Kidman's whinny, crying, stupid dreams were just too much. If Stanley Kubrick set out to make another really bizzare film he missed the mark on this one. It could have been a whole lot better. The whole movie was a let down. As far as this supposedly being a thriller, I wasn't thrilled. Thrill is created when something dangerous is possibly going to happen to a character that as been developed in such a way that you CAN care about them. As I said, I couldn't have cared less about these people. If there was suppose to be some kind of psychological lesson to learn it was all to vague and scattered to grasp with any clear cut definition.
I can only figure that it's the nudity, unbridled sex and sexual fantasy that getting the "10" ratings from the men. If the sex and female nudity were not such a big part of this film I doubt that many men could have stayed awake through it! If you want to watch a film with real psycological questions, rent "What Dreams May Come", a film about real love, with top notch cinematography and characters you can care about.