A Worthy Closing

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2000)

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was his final film made (as many people know) and as it is his last it is no less than a perfect Stanley Kubrick film. He can still grab you with his terrific filmaking in a sexual odyssey that seems not only extraordinary to his audience, but to himself as well (he took a twelve year interlude between making Full Metal Jacket in 1987 and this film).
The acting is also superb, mainly by the real life husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as the couple who hold many secrets from each other. The film goes on a little longer than some of Kubrick's past ones, but thats because there is a lot more detail in this picture than hin his other ones, including sexual rendevous, long dialogues and scenes of intrigue. In short, this is Kubick's last, one of his best, and most intriguing films.