open to disagreement

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2004)

I think there are two types of people: those who thought this movie was art and those who thought it was terrible and had no reason for being done.
I think it should have been rated NC-17, but I also don't think that's the death notice of a film.
I did think it stank. I don't know why Cruise, Kidman and Pollock had anything to do with it. There had to be some reason, but I thought it was boring pornography.
I also thought it was very Kubrick, but from me that's not a compliment. I still have no idea what 2001 was about.
There was a good bit to the movie, which I'll paraphrase. Cruise goes to a clandestine party where everyone wears a mask. Yet somehow, Pollock knows he was there. How, because, as Pollock put it, he arrived in a cab as opposed to a limousine and his name was in the cape he handed to the valet.
Weird movie because of the cast. Otherwise it would have been an ordinary skin flick, I suppose. Once again a director proves it is possible to put together a group of attractive women, all naked, and have it be not remotely titillating.