Sex lives of the living dead = one crashing bore!!!

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2000)

Amazing that anyone would find anything redeeming about this sad debacle. It's Stanley Kubrick doing (serious) Woody Allen, right down to the Sydney Pollack cameo. Stultifyingly paced, it's the best sleep inducer I've ever experienced. This is the kind of vehicle that mainstream hollywood would have cast Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner in, & that might have given it some humor & punch, but Cruise is so badly miscast, he looks like he's about to burst into tears at any moment. The plot is laughable. It worked fine as a period fantasy, but it sure creaks & flops in a contemporary context, not that this movie has any kind of context at all. It's strangely a-contextual. There's not anything resembling a real live 3-d human being anywhere on the screen. Even all those nude women (no nude men) look like products of a corporate committee. How sad. I'll remember Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove, The Killing & Barry Lyndon, thank you.