Glorified pornography

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2009)

This movie is porn dressed up as pseudo-intellectual nonsense. Avoid at all costs. There are much better ways to spend an evening than watching this awful piece of tripe.
Sure, Tom Cruise's acting is OK, and Nicole Kidman is passable, but what can one say about a movie that features a semi-Satanic fertility ritual as its central scene, along with the death of a hooker in that scene? OK, one can make the argument that maybe he was fantasizing about sex, and so was she. Sorry, I have no need to spend any time watching someone else's fantasies.
I only watched it originally because I was unaware of the content of the film, and because it was supposedly a Kubrick masterpiece. I was initially VERY surprised to see this piece of trash coming from the same mind that gave us "2001: A Space Odyssey", which is one of my all-time favorite films, but then I was reminded that the same mind gave us "A Clockwork Orange". Fitting end to a career indeed. He could have done SO much better.