A big disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (22 February 2005)

I have read so much about this film that i decided to see it at last.What a disappointment!Ignore all the bla-bla about this being a masterpiece or so-deep-that-you-can't understand-it.This is a silly and totally unconvincing film.What is remarkable about it is the hype(no,the SUPERHYPE)surrounding it.The fact that Kubrick died after making the film and the divorce between Cruise and Kidman a short time after it made an enormous fuss about what is basically a pretentious piece of snobbery.The film is maddeningly long (about 3 hours )and the action is soooooo slow that it is almost unbearable at the end.But the funniest things are the ideas and motives of the film which are so petty and trivial that i wonder how a serious filmmaker can waste his talent,time and efforts for such a miserable thing.Above all it is about sex-that sex is everything to us(Kidman's character declares that she will abandon everything even her daughter for a night with a total stranger-can you imagine something more absurd???)and that the fact that we cannot live our sexual fantasies makes us miserable.And that banality is lengthened for 3 hours!!!Yes,Cruise and Kidman are good actors(Kidman overacts sometimes)but what can they do to save such a stupid film from its own stupidity?Everything that happens in the film is just unbelievable and inexplicable-it is like a dream.At times I even laughed at the absurdities presented as intellectual "insights".My advice:don't waste your time,get a walk in the park instead!