Brilliant, Macabre Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 1999)

Stanley Kubrick is at the top of a very short list of candidates for the greatest director of all time, followed by Scorsese, Hitchcock and Coppola, and A Clockwork Orange is his best film. It is a bizarre and brilliant film that makes a statement on many subjects ranging from teen violence to police brutality to government corruption. One of the highlights is the adapted score assembled by Kubrick and matching the film's often disturbing images perfectly and with great irony. McDowell's performance is a gem and this film packs a major punch. It ranks #3 on my all time list behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. It is most probably a greater film than those but not as personal to this writer.