Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug-related material

Rated Unrated

 

Runtime: 2 hours and 39 minutes

 

Genre: Drama, Mystery and Thriller

 

Director: Stanley Kubrick

 

Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael and Arthur Schnitzler

 

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Madison Eginton, Sky Du Mont, Stewart Throdike, Julienne Davis, Thomas Gibson and Alan Cumming

 

Budget: $65,000,000

 

Box Office: $162,257,226

 

Feedback: The final Stanley Kubrick's film is fun, but doesn't hold up as strong.

The characters have strong value. The conversations about sexual desires, security and committment does hold up the story and it make clear arguments that these characters are asking about what happens with this society that they are living. People die and happens to others. I think it works well with the ending of how Victor explains the situation of how Bill has been caught up in all of this.

Most of the time does take a lot of mysterious elements. It does take into account to where everything in this film does get a little intense in the middle.

The actors are the best ones to choose. They did good with taking much time with the character that they are playing.

One funny moment was the clothing store where two Japanese people with the young girl are hiding from the business owner and he got really angry at them.

The camera movement does look big to look at, as what we call it, mise-en-scene. I also do appreciate the background, color correction, sound effects, costumes and setting choices.

The only thing that could have been better is the pacing and timing. I would like to see more of the mansion and what could happen to what Bill and Alice might suffer through the password problem, rather than adding a few scenes that doesn't really add up the story much. The pacing does slow down at times.

The music sounds nice, especially the choir group moment. However, the piano does get annoying at times and does affect the story. If it didn't play most of the conflict, that could be much helpful and has appreciation of atmosphere.

Overall, not bad. I enjoy this film.

 

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7)

Character 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7.5)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Camera/Cinematography 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

38/50                                           7.6/10