Terrible - sickening

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 1999)

With all the hype around "Eyes Wide Shut", you would think this was a provocative movie. It is not, save your 4-8 dollars for something else. If you are looking for an intellectually stimulating film you will be very disappointed it is lumbering and odd, slow moving and pointless. This film is silly and whiney the viewer never learns what exactly is going on and what we do learn is disjointed and lame. The plot is stale and not fully explored the sex is gratuitous and not very interesting. There is too much that is unexplained and the entire movie does not make sense. The characters are obsessed with revenge and sex and never fully explored. The chemistry between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fizzles right from the beginning and is as volatile as water. The trailers make you think you are going to see some great psychological thriller but the ending is cheesy and unsatisfying and does not do justice to Stanley Kubrick's last film. What a bad, bad thing this movie truly is.