Excellent Movie

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2000)

Eyes Wide Shut is the last film of director Stanley Kubrick. It was not what I expected when I saw it in the theatre. The media made it out to be like it was some kind of porno where cruise and kidman had sex through the whole movie. It was so much more then just sex though.
After getting stoned, Alice Harford (Kidman) tells Dr. Bill Harford (Cruise) about a sexual fantasy she had with a naval officer. Then Dr. Harford receives a phone call telling him that one of his patients has just past away, and his sexual odyssey begins which eventually leads him to a gathering of some sort of cult where the infamous orgy scene takes place. So the film could be rated R instead of NC-17, this scene was severely edited.
As with any Kubrick film, the music blended in perfectly. Cruise and Kidman were excellent. And, of course, Kubrick's directing was amazing. I only wonder how much better this film would have been if Kubrick was still alive to tinker with it. Although, he probably wouldn't have changed much since the film is a masterpiece.