The emperor has no clothes ....

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2004)

Am I the only one who has the guts to say this movie was just ok? I mean, just because it was Stanley Kubrick's last film has everyone trying to use ridiculous allegories to justify what was basically an average film. If it was any other director, this would not be raved about as it was. Instead we have pseudo-intellectuals dissecting the cinematography, the lateral metaphors blah blah. Please, making lame observations using a thesaurus does not an intellectual make. Objectively speaking, I found the movie worth watching. It was ok by Hollywood standards. I only wish Cruise had spent some money on voice modulation - he still sounds like a choir boy. Its hard to take him seriously in a role such as this, with his pre-adolescent squeaking.