He Made a Bad, Bad Film

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 1999)

Chris Isaak on the soundtrack notwithstanding, this movie was utter dreck. I went expecting intrigue, suspense, threatening eroticism ... what I got was 2 hours and 40 minutes of yakkety yak yak yakkin'! Shoulda called it "Mouths Wide Open". There was plenty of talky buildup, but never the big emotional payoff (like in "A Clockwork Orange", when Alex is able to listen to "lovely, lovely Ludwig van" without getting sick any more and he knows he is cured). Nope, no such luck here. There's a saying that sometimes people are "better off dead". Perhaps, if this was his future in filmmaking, Kubrick IS better off dead.