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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
3868 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.52/4 |
# of Ratings: |
190 |
Genres: |
Drama, Mystery |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 07/16/1999 |
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Director: |
Stanley Kubrick |
Actors: |
Tom Cruise
Nicole Kidman
Sydney Pollack
Madison Eginton
Todd Field
Leelee Sobieski |
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Plot Outline:
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A New York doctor takes a trip to a seedy, decadent and dark part of life after his wife admits she almost cheated on him.
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Moviehead 04/01/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
Story is interesting. Mystery is effective with some great scenes. Intense. With great music. And of course great directing. Even with all this, this movie is just good to me, not nearly as good as 2001, The Shining that also included mystery and were much better. |
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Daniel Corleone 02/10/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), a couple from New York attend a Christmas party by a wealthy patient, Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). Things go weird after smoking marijuana. A simple premise and yet the unorthodox and snail paced direction was utilized. The settings and masks added to the already dull scenes. Eyes Wide Shut is in this reviewer's opinion one of the director's weakest film. |
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Snoogans 11/27/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
I took a second look at this film and I appreciate it much more. The uncut version is hardly different, but for some reason it resonated more with me. I feel I have a much better grasp on what the film offers. |
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mitchellyoung 08/04/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
It took two viewings for this weird and often surreal look at obsession and relationship (amid a standard mystery plot) to sink in. I rate it 3 stars because I think, like most Kubrick films, the attention to thematic detail is stunning and the film itself is very thought-provoking. I wouldn't say it's my favorite film, but it's well made. |
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02/10/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Eyes Wide Shut" by Yojimbo |
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An upper middle class professional couple in New York argue leading to the husband seeking a night of revenge driven sexual encounters at the thought of his wife's sexual fantasies with another man. Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut is a film I desperately wanted to like but like the A.I. project, which I still refuse to believe he instigated in its present form, it seems bafflingly bland and pointless. For a start, did Kubrick sit through Far And Away and think to himself "Eureka! That's the onscreen chemistry I was looking for!"?! Aside from some mindly intriguing gender political mind games, all you have here is Cruise wandering around New York encountering one deeply unlikely situation after another culminating in a ridiculously affected pseudo orgy and a total non-mystery. ... |
Rating of
2/4 |
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06/06/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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1999: A Sexual Odyssey |
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You can't resist Eyes Wide Shut, you've got to let it wash over you. You need to zone out to it, it practically begs you to. It seduces you into a dream state, an almost mesmerized sedation, that only David Lynch could rival. But this is very much Kubrick's film. It's still curiously distant, the sets are obsessively- yet stunningly- constructed, the sets are beautifully complex, with each shot beautifully composed. Everything is controlled here, but there is a thick mystery which permeates every frame. Not to mention the strong performances from Cruise and Kidman, who is particularly beautiful here. The fate of their real marriage makes the final exposition even more mysterious. Not only did this final scene reflect the finale of one of the most historical film directors shrouded career,... |
Rating of
4/4 |
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