The World of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut.

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2005)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was Stanley Kubrick's final film. This movie probably killed him in the end. He never even got the chance to present a final cut of this film. The production on this film was very lengthy. Reshoots and hundreds of takes were never enough for the man, he wanted perfection (that's what happens when a photographer becomes a film maker). The movie was a very non-commercial one and a lot of post production tinkering was made to get this movie some mainstream acceptance. Kidman and Cruise are brilliant in this film. Fellow director Sidney Pollack shows that he can act as well as direct. Too bad the film was tinkered with in the editing room (get the Hong Kong V.C.D.). Not the movie that I wanted to see Kubrick make before he died (what ever happened to the Aryan Papers and the Napoleon project?)but I guess it'll have to do (like I have a choice). In a way it is fitting for him, making a mainstream movie after all of these years.
Recommended for Kubrick fans only.