You have to look deep within yourself to see the vision

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut By Dean Kish
When you sit down to venture into the world captivated in "Eyes Wide Shut" you have to look deep within yourself and see the vision. Director Stanley Kubrick's last great masterpiece is just that a masterpiece. The common thread in Kubrick is the imagery of "an unknown force taking away the control of an average man's life and slowly driving him insane until he learns a life lesson from it." This thread has been in other Kubrick classics such as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Full Metal Jacket", and "A Clockwork Orange". And it is so evident in "Eyes Wide Shut". The film's stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman pour their lives out as they portray a couple grasping to hold together after some tightly kept secrets are let out of the bag. Cruise and Kidman begin to doubt each other's fidelity and honor to one and other. But what keeps this film together has to be the haunting three key score that accents to a lot of the actor's movements and at times heavily accents their haunted lives. Some of images portrayed in this film are so far out of left field it looks as if Kubrick has a lesson to give even in death. To summarize the film's originality, I can only state two words, "Subtly Intense". So go out and see Kubrick's final lesson and don't forget to kiss your wife when it's over. (4.5 of 5) So Says the Soothsayer.