Eyes Wide Open... Shut... it doesn't matter.

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut:
This may be the worst movie I have ever seen. It is certainly the worst since ID4, which was of course and entirely different awful movie.
I have no idea where they got this terrible idea, well I do, it was from a novel of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler who died in 1931. So this is not a new book, also Stanley Kubrick was so out of touch with what has been going on that the plot of this movie would have been dated in 1970.

The so called sex scenes were like something 6th grade boys imagine sex to be like. They were not sexy or "turn on's" they were hysterical.
The pace of this lugubrious movie was so slow I thought I had stumbled into the Slow Talkers Of America Convention. I cannot imagine how a dynamic actor of Tom Cruise's skill could even begin to slow down like this... it was if he were treading water the entire movie.
The sound track music was so terrible that I thought I was going to vomit at one point, make that several points, in the film. I actually got up and left the little cinema to go find out how-much-longer this travesty was going to last... only 20 more minutes. I went back in and squirmed it out.
I give it a minus two (-2) on a scale of one to five.