A great movie by one of the greatest directorS of all time!!!

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 1999)

Stanley Kubrick last film is great. I am a Kubrick fan and a big cinema fan. Kubrick abandon a bit his style that he has use since 2001 A Space Odyssey for a more new style who let me remember the great Martin Scorsese. And, by the way, the whole film has an atmosphere of Taxi Driver Kubrick's version.
The message of the movie is difficult to understand (well, it is Kubrick). It is one of his less commercial film in the range of Lolita. This is an unerotic movie with a lot of sexual content. One of the most weird movie that I have seen in all my life (David Lynch's Blue Velvet is another).
The actors are good. Tom Cruise, in my opinion, is not a great actor, but in this movie he seems credible. Kidman is at his best as always. She is really one of the greatest hollywoodian actress. Sydney Pollack is also credible even if his last scene (the non-explicative scene with Tom Cruise) is a tough one for the audiance to beleive.
I must say that I attended to see the greatest film of my life and I was personnaly disappointed, buy it is obvious that it is a film to watch and rewatch again and again like all the Kubrick movies. The problem with me and the movie was that the central theme of the movie was not a theme that really cared about... well rare are the director who let me appreciate a movie with a theme that you don't personnaly care... I can think a few names.....Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Terrence Malick, David Lean, Steven Speilberg and Stanley Kubrick.
Remember it is not a commercial movie, so may LOVE it or you may HATE it. It happen all the time with very personnal movie just think of 2001 A Space Odyssey or the great war movie The Thin Red Line.