Very good movie.

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut is classic Kubrick. The music and lighting of the film sets the mood as did that of Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. Nicole Kidman plays the best performance of her life in my opinion. Tom Cruise is wonderful as Bill Harford. Sydney Pollack also plays a good part. Some people say that the movie would have been better if Harvey Keitel had played the part and say that Sydney Pollack's performance was the only flaw in the movie. I do not agree though I admit it would be interesting to see Harvey Keitel play the part. The movie takes you many visually provocative locations and introduces you to many provocative characters emphasizing the MANY. Among them there is one played by the beautiful and talented Leelee Sobieski who was also good in the TV movie Joan of Arc though her part is meager in this film and I don't even think you hear her say one line she captures her character well. Within every character the spirit of this movie is captured and that is one of the many beauties of it. Well to conclude I'm going to say something that you've probably already heard but by all means that doesn't make it not true. Before his death Stanley Kubrick has given all movie lovers one final masterpiece.