A Crushing Bore

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2000)

I had high expectations the first time i sat to watch this. Stanley Kubrick has a phenomenal reputation (although most of his films are , i now realise, pretty duff), and it was seen as revolutionary at the time. Its not art though. Its pretentious, deliberately confusing and most importantly, suicidally boring. You may call me a philistine, but i can appreciate art when i see it. In this, i'm afraid i see no art. Scenes in which nothing happens except pretty colours fly by or monkeys grunt last for 10 minutes or more. Why? Is that art? I hope i never have to sit through it again. Make that 2/10 (the 2 is for the expensive effects)