"They did a bad, bad thing!"

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2000)

This is one of the worst movies I have ever sat through. It was definitely the worst Kubrick film.
It's hard to imagine a film with this many beautiful women in it (especially Nicole Kidman) as being a waste of time, but it is. The plot could be accomplished in about 30 minutes if all of the meaningless things had been left out. You can skip the first half-hour and not be lost at all in the story. The entire segment with the costume store clerk adds NOTHING to the plot of the movie. What's more, all of the dialog and action feels like your watching the movie in slow motion. (Hit your FF button and you'll notice that most characters appear to be moving at normal speed!) Lead characters do not seem to change at all through out the film. They react to things in one way, then, when those things change, the characters are still reacting the same way, as if the changes had not occurred.
The worst part? The story is completely anti-climactic! Do sit waiting the ending that will make all the convoluted items come together because you're not going to get one.
The most annoying part for me was this nasty habit that all the characters seemed to have: One character would say a line, only to have it immediately repeated, as a question, by the other character. Example: Character one says: "You can't do that!" Character two says: "I can't do that?" This little bit of abrasion occurs about 1000 times in an already exasperating film. I never tell people not to watch a film. You need to make you're own assessment. Just don't say that you weren't warned.