a subtle, intelligent seamless piece of art.

Rating: 10/10 (20 August 1999)

watching this movie is like watching a good book. It is a nearly seamless movie. the fluidity of the camerawork and editing makes it seem that from the opening shot until the final line is one scene. which is excellent because it accentuates the intellectual and emontional journey of tom cruise through his own sexuality. it uses such simple literary and cinematic devices such as contrast, symbolism, color symbolism, the dream, and masking, yet all these "simple" devices are done masterfully by kubrick. amazing, simply amazing