Peter Rabbit for adults!

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2001)

Remember as a kid, you were read "Peter Rabbit", about the curious, kind of loner bunny that wanders where he shouldn't, Mr.McGregor's farm? And remember how he was chased out by the foul-tempered farmer, and became bedridden? Well, that's the plot of EYES WIDE SHUT. The only diffences are that Stanley Kubrick replaced the bunny with Tom Cruise, the farm becomes a Long Island orgy for the imaginative elite! Now, because Kubrick used a bedtime story as inspiration for an erotic drama doesn't make for bad cinema. I really liked EYES WIDE SHUT. I felt it sad that Stanley Kubrick had to die when he could of had another ten years of work in him. I felt it sadder that he was such a friggen perfectionist, and it took him a decade to complete a film! In the span since he made the chilling FULL METAL JACKET in 1987 to this film 12 years later, lesser directors like Paul Verhoven, Brian DePalma and Adrian Lyne worked round the clock to make ho-hum cinema.
EYES shows that Kubrick didn't die on a downward spin.