The haunting final chapter in a master director's career.

Rating: 9/10 (2 December 2005)

Eyes Wide Shut was Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece in which he left the audience for the last time with a feeling that cannot be put into words. The film takes off after Alice(Nicole Kidman)gets angry with her husband Bill(Tom Cruise)because he has never been jealous of her in their marriage of nine years. In order to give Bill a wake-up call she reveals to him an event that happened a year before while they were on vacation. Alice tells him that she was attracted to a navy officer,who she saw, so much that she could have given up her entire life with Bill and their daughter if the officer had wanted her for just one night.
This upsets Bill and he begins seeing images in his mind of his wife and the officer together. He only comes to fully believe that a woman could leave her man for another man she does not even know when he makes a house-call to one of his patients. There the woman, who's father has just died, tells Bill that she loves him and kisses him. Dr-Bill can't understand why this woman has fallen in love with him even though they barely know each other. Right after this, Bill meets the woman's fiancé Carl, who is a guy just like Bill, and then it really kicks in that what Alice was telling him could possibly happen.
Infuriated with his wife, Bill sets off on a sexual odyssey that night for revenge, but also discovery. His journey leads him to a prostitute, and to a secret mask and costume party that he should not have attended because he not only puts one woman's life on the line, but also puts himself and his family in grave danger.
Stanley Kubrick will have you hanging on every single word in every single scene in total suspense in this haunting film. It is one of Kubrick's best films,even though they are all magnificent in their own way. The screenplay is superb, the acting is intense, and the direction is unbelievable. There are all the trademarks of Kubrick's art present in Eyes Wide Shut and the atmosphere is utterly chilling. You have never seen Tom Cruise in a role like this either. This film is a must-see because it is perfectly shot. It comes from a director who has left his mark on the film world and will never be forgotten.
See this film!!!