Eyes Just Shut...

Rating: 2/10 (15 May 2000)

When this movie came out, I was very leary of seeing it, because every critic viewed it as 'Interesting', or 'Captivating' but NOT ONE ever said it was any good... ..now I know why... I tried watching this movie on video, it took me 5 sittings to get through it, my eyes kept shutting...

At times it is a beautiful film to look at, but not often enough. I haven't been this bored with a movie that had nudity in it since 'Showgirls'.

If this movie was made by anyone but Kubrick, it would have been panned, laughed at and forgotten before it hot the theaters. But because it was Kubrick, and it was also his last, no critic wanted to say anything bad about it.
Being a Kubrick film, it brought to mind a Kubrick classic, 'A Clockwork Orange'. Not because they were similar movies, but because I would have needed the Lodovico technique to get through it in one viewing.