A film exploring marriage with some flaws

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2016)

Eyes wide shut certainly is a peculiar movie, but it's intriguing, which is the main reason I watched it one night. This movie does feature very good performances by the lead actors, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I was very impressed by their performances. The plot of the movie is kinda hard to explain, basically it's about Tom Cruise's character's one night exploration of himself and of moral and sexual discoveries after his wife, played by Nicole's character tells him that one time she came close and considered cheating on him. So as you can probably imagine, you're in for very intense, graphic sexual content and a lot of male and female nudity (both rear and full frontal). So if that sort of thing offends you, then stay away, Cus it's in this film for sure! Personally, it didn't bother me a whole whole lot, but in a couple of scenes it got to be just a little much. Now the movie's script is well written and intelligent, that was nice to see. In my opinion, Tom Cruise was the best part of this film, his performance was gripping, and he sure did look good doing it lol, but seriously, he was awesome here! And Nicole gave one of her best performances ever in this film, she was so real and dramatic! Stanley Kubrick did do a pretty good job with this movie, it was shot beautifully, and intelligently. I appreciate this film's intelligence, you can sure tell that a lot of hard work went into the making of this film. This movie is very psychological and interesting to watch. It ultimately is just about tom and Nicole's marriage and about why she considered cheating on him, and how tom gets through it and how he deals with it. I would have preferred less nudity and a little less sex, that would've been nice. I'm perfectly alright with having some female/male nudity, and I'm alright with sex scenes, as long as they aren't like porn. I just feel like In a couple scenes the amount of sex/nudity sort of took away from the main objective of the movie and in a way distracted the audience. And the ending to Eyes Wide Shut is in my humble opinion one of the greatest endings in cinema history, it's so well acted, and well written, and it's refreshing to see how they resolved everything, it's a true testament to the word marriage. This is a good film for married couples to see, but you might wanna zip through one scene or 2, just because as I said previously, the amount of nudity can be a little distracting. 7/10 overall for Eyes Wide Shut.