Stanley Kubrick brilliant. Then the film degenerates into a masterpiece." Roger Ebert was not particularly impressed with it, awarding it a mediocre 2.5 out of 4. He concluded: "Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" is more like a book of short stories than a novel", a "strangely shapeless film from the man whose work usually imposes a ferociously consistent vision on his material". Kubrick's final film was "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. Tom Cruise portrays a doctor who witnesses a bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a
Influence of Stanley Kubrick "may reveal hidden clues and hint at a bigger thematic oeuvre." In 2017, "Filmworker" was released, which was a documentary about Leon Vitali, an actor first cast in Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon", of which Vitali would later go onto become a friend and frequent collaborator to the director on his subsequent films as his assistant. The film explores Vitali's friendship and working relationship with Kubrick. Influence of Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick is regarded by film critics and historians as one of the most influential directors of all time. Leading directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, Woody Allen,