Eyes Wide Open.

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2015)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Dir: Stanley Kubrick / Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sidney Pollack, Todd Field, Marie Richardson: Impressive final film by Stanley Kubrick addressing things we turn a blind eye to in fear of consequence. It stars Tom Cruise as a doctor with his wife played by Nicole Kidman. It is an epic of jealousy and obsession as a mere party becomes an evening of tense facts and taunting. Thus begins a very long and terrifying night of exoticism in its darkest form. Hauntingly tense unable to see the horror that looms ahead when Cruise discovers that asking too many questions is fatal. Cruise delivers an emotionally exhausting performance while Kidman is exotic as his wife who may harbor dark secrets of her own. Sidney Pollack plays a colleague with an overdosed hooker at the opening party. Todd Field plays a pianist who attended medical school but dropped out. He and Cruise get reacquainted and he reveals sessions at different locations where he plays blindfolded. This will lead Cruise to his most frightening nightmares in the forms of his guiltiest pleasures. Marie Richardson plays a woman whose father passed away and she comes on to Cruise. Vinessa Shaw plays a hooker who lures Cruise off the street. This is Kubrick at his very best as he addresses the mind's odyssey towards potential loss. The doctor can only hope to awaken from reality with his eyes wide open. Score: 10 / 10