God-awful

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2010)

Want to state first that Kubrick actually is my favorite director and I put Clockwork Orange, Strangelove, and Lolita up there with the best, but I have to say EWS is one of the most boring, vacuous, silly and pretentious films I have ever seen. The stupid one note soundtrack is enough to give you a migraine and the dialogue is just pathetic. If you want to know how awful the script is just look at the "quotes" on the IMDb page and reflect on the fact that this crap is supposed to represent the MOST INTERESTING portion of the film's dialogue. As usual, Tom Cruise couldn't act his way out of a paper bag and a huge portion of his lines consists in repeating, for no apparent reason, the last line spoken by whomever he is talking to,in a dull, uncomprehending way, such as "... because I had you followed." "You ..... had me ...... followed." As for the "suspense" element, the party scenes are so boring and the very idea that the whole thing could be a big secret when there are dozens of hookers, butlers, bodyguards etc. running around the scene is just too stupid to be accepted even for "conscious suspension of disbelief". This is a terrible film.