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Summary: Good but.........no point
Review: I rented this before, the previews looked interestig so I decided to rent it, well I did see this my friend didn't like it there was NO POINT to the ending.....Tom Cruise is a good actor. Enjoy!
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Summary: intriguing but unsatisfying
Review: Is it heresy or sacrilege to suggest at this late date - and particularly in light of his recent death - that Stanley Kubrick's films have almost always been better at promising greatness than delivering it? Almost without exception, Kubrick's carefully crafted works have emerged as brilliantly clinical "exercises" rather than fully involving works of timeless art. Audacious, visionary, always willing to push the envelope and challenge an audience to go where it may not want to - these are the hallmarks of Kubrick's directorial genius. But, along with these virtues, comes a heavy list of counterweighing weaknesses that somehow distance an audience emotionally from what is occurring on the screen: pretentiousness, laborious pacing, narrative choppiness, often static camerawork. "Eyes Wide Shut" fits perfectly into this standard Kubrick mold. Starting with a fascinating premise, Kubrick takes his audience into unexpected and challenging directions, yet fails to really cope with the complexities of the theme and make the audience care. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman portray a young, upwardly mobil couple, who live in New York City with their young daughter. When Kidman, in one of the year's best scenes, reveals in a wrenching monologue that she has had serious thoughts of infidelity, Cruise discovers he can't cope with the visions this admission conjurs up. Thus, he embarks on a sexual odyssey through the streets of the city which leads him into many bizarre and unexpected avenues of depravity including a club made up of the idle rich dressed in costumes and masks who stage orgies replete with secret passwords and portentous organ music. The problem lies essentially with the Kubrick/Frederick Rafael screenplay which can't seem to connect these scenes of flamboyant nastiness with the theme that is at the film's core. Cruise drifts into each of his adventures out of an understandable urge to experience this world of sexual perversity, but he seems to end up as a passive observer each time, with little or no revelation registered. This concept - of examining the effect that even implied infidelity can have on relationship - is such a rich one that it becomes a shame to see it buried under these scenes of often extraneous ostentation. Kubrick seems so enamored of his little "visions" that they begin to dominate the proceedings and bury the theme and the characters. This weakness is reflected in the film's far too tidy resolution, which is thoroughly unconvincing from a psychological viewpoint and makes one wonder how Kubrick could linger so long over scenes with no purpose beyond the sensational yet take so little time with the one that truly matters. Cruise and Kidman both turn in fine performances, but Sydney Pollack, as a wealthy friend who later in the film sets Cruise straight, hams it up shamelessly. The music is hauntingly effective and helps immeasureably to establish and sustain an atmosphere of portentous weirdness. The title "Eyes Wide Shut" will not describe most people in the audience - Kubrick is too skilled at creating an always riveting visual motif for that - but, for me, it will serve as a lasting testament less to his genius than to his maddening inability to fulfill his always great promise.
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Summary: A great, great film
Review: Eyes Wide Shut is truly a great movie. It has Kubrick written all over it, and it goes places most filmmakers don't even dare. I love the photography, the acting, and especially the strange and creepy plot twists. I did not expect this movie to be as dark as it was, but that's what makes it so unique.
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Summary: Classic Kubrick at His Best
Review: I loved this movie. It provided so many elements including: Mystery, lust, anger and suspence. A perfect finale to a movie director icon!
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Summary: it is a piece of art!
Review: This movie is done so beautifully in its cinematic,theatrical way. Many people do not appreciate it.well, not every one walks into a museum and know what he is looking at. I feel this movie would be better off if the director picked some new face rather than tom cruise and nicole kidman who we know what to expect. The story line is very simple and yet very thought provoking. it is about marriage and reality and human nature BUT the director has managed to provoke thoughts on such a serious and humdrum matter in the most artistic and amusing way ever. every scene and angle in this movie has presumed meaning in it and the director gave his audiences not once not twice but a lot of chances to look for that particular meaning. It is a very profound movie that make people think and think even after a few days of viewing it. this is not the type of movie that you can make a judgement on it after just viewing once. People who complain it is too slow or boring simply did not put their thought into it. Tom Cruise and nicole kidman acted in this movie but it is Kubrick that gave this movie a soul. this is not what anyone would normally expect from these 2 actors . i think if you are a fan of kubrick you definitely do not want to miss it. But if you are a fan of either nicole or Tom, you may be disapoointed by it.
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Summary: Stange, beautiful, surreal, perfect if it weren't CENSORED
Review: Let me first complain. How in the name of god are we the only country in the world who had to watch a CENSORED version of this movie? Does that make sense to anyone else here? And we're not even trusted enough to handle the uncensored version on DVD. I would give it 5 stars had I been given the credit to handle a little nudity. Movie aside, these are the reasons I hate the MPAA. Before I get on with my review, let me say it again. WE, IN AMERICA, LAND OF FREE SPEECH, ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE TO WATCH A CENSORED VERSION OF EYES WIDE SHUT. This movie was incredible, strange, but incredible. After I saw it, I knew it would flop, because the public at large is too busy watching Armageddon and Godzilla type movies(Not that they're not fun to watch, but they're not good movies). Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman both do excellent jobs here, and as usual Kubrick is on top of his game. This movie is though to watch, uncomfortable, and that's exactly how it should be. It's a 5 star movie, no doubt about it. If I didn't like the movie so much I'd give it less stars because of the censorship, that really bothers me, and I'm suprised it doesn't bother more people.
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Summary: A disappointing mess
Review: As a fan of Stanley Kubrick, I had been eagerly anticipating this film. I can now say how disappointed I am. While Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, and the rest of this cast are all solid, the story, and especially the way it is delivered both takes forever to develop and frustrates. The dialogue takes forever for the actors to say, and I often felt like if I made hand gestures, it might help to speed up the story out of their mouths. Certain aspects of the story, characters, and entire scenes serve no purpose at all in this film, other than to elongate it. However, as for the now-famous orgy scene, it is certainly one of the most fascinating and bizarre sequences in recent film. I can't help but feel sorry for the cast and crew, who, while they put forth such a strong effort, end up in such a mess.
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Summary: Blahs Wide Snore
Review: Painful Kubrick movie. Has all the elements one comes to expect--which means, of course, that nothing you expect is in it. I'm a lukewarm Kubrick fan, but I've never been disappointed by his movies until now. EWS is long, boring, short on drama, long on uninteresting detail. The performances are very good--from big star Cruise and Kidman to the secondary part costume-store owner. But the best performances in the world can't save this script. It's supposed to be menacing, paradoxical, and confusing; it's supposed to intrigue and make you think. It tries too hard, however, and the gratuitous nudity and quasisensual provokment by the plot make the entire movie seem like as if the Farrelly Brothers got a hold of 2001. Still, Kubrick fans will swear to their grave that It's A Beautiful Movie, And Who Are You To Judge A Master? Take it from someone who's independent of influence: Eyes Wide Shut is a rental at best, so long as about 12 people chip in apiece and you're playing cards instead of wasting your valuable time watching it.
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Summary: Keep your Eyes wide open for Kubrick's Best!
Review: Alice and Ben are married since 6 years and they also have 6 year old girl! Oneday when Alice was totally drunk she tells Ben that she spent a night with another men on there Holiday! Ben cant believe it! So he leaves her alone and waks down the street! Ben is prepared to do everything this night! And so he gets in big trubble! See it! Its good! 2 thumbs up!
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Summary: It's not what you think
Review: I'm not sure what I was expecting when went to see this in the theaters... but it was something like "Six and half Weeks" meets "The Shining." I was wrong. The movie is very very Kubrick... slow, sticky scenes that last just long enough to make you dreadfully uncomfortable, music that is perfectly married to each scene and stark, surreal lighting that's part fantasy, part cold reality. This is a film about fidelity, fantasy and the reality of marriage compared to the illusion of lust and infidelity... the strength of marriage versus the weaknesses of lust.... good versus evil.... loyalty versus abandonment. There's really not much I can say without ruining the story... but this is a finely made film. Well thought out, haunting, unforgettable. I've heard a lot of people commenting on this movie without having seen it... guessing from the previews that it's just a sex flick... this is not the case. If your jaw is not hanging open, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat during most of this film. The DVD has TV spots, the theatrical trailer and interviews with Cruise, Kidman and Steven Spielberg. If you liked "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Shining" as much for the direction by Kubrick as you did for the story this film will not be a disappointment. Kubrick's hand is more than evident in this film, just like you can tell a Renoir from a Van Gogh... you can tell when Kubrick has been behind a piece of film.
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