Why did Stanley Kubrick have to end like this?!

Rating: 4/10 (16 April 2006)

Before "Eyes Wide Shut" came out, there was a lot of hype about it, given that Stanley Kubrick had died before the release, and the possibility that stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman might get EXTREMELY intimate in some scene or another.
WHAT A LETDOWN!!!!!!!!! The movie was boring at best. So let's say for a minute that it was talking about sexual fantasies. If so, then they only focused on male sexual fantasies. Kubrick should have known better.
It wasn't until a took a film class that I even figured out how to have a serious discussion about the movie: there's a lot of duality. There are two Eastern Europeans (a Hungarian and a Serb)*, Tom Cruise twice goes to the Serb (and the first time, he gets angry at his daughter for having sex, but later it looks like he's pimping her), Tom Cruise twice goes to the strange house, and some other things. Also, the Bugs Bunny cartoon that they watch in one scene functions in sort of the same way that the Road Runner cartoon in "The Shining" does.
In an interview, Martin Scorsese said that this movie almost seems to be about New York in a dreamlike state. Either way, it still feels like it's dragging. A lousy end for the director who gave us "Dr. Strangelove", "2001", "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining".
*Presumably, this could be a remnant of "Traumnovelle", the novel on which the movie was based. The novel was written by an Austrian person in the 1920s. As the Austro-Hungarian Empire had just broken up, there may have been a number of people in Austria from throughout that empire, including Hungarians and Serbs.