Review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Jason M — 30 Jan 2016
This is an underrated Stanley Kubrick film. Although I would not regard this as one of the greatest films of all time, it still contains all the essential Kubrick elements of low dialogue and high visuals.
The film is an adaptation of the 1926 novel "Dream Story". Kubrick takes us on the dream-like journey of Dr. Hartford as he tinkers with promiscuity in the wake of marital turbulence. I am not a big fan of Tom Cruise, but given this Kubrick vehicle delivers a strong performance, along with Nicole Kidman, his real life wife at the time. It is said that the Hollywood power couple approached the master Kubrick with a desire to be cast in one of his films. With his health failing, this last master stroke provided them with their wish.
The scene at the mansion are spellbinding. The backward chants of the clerics provide an eerie backdrop to the raw sex exposed as the focus of festivities. The film provides us insight to the very real sexual secret societies of the ultra powerful.
This review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was written by Jason M on 30 January 2016.
Eyes Wide Shut has generally received positive reviews.
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