Cult classic.

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 1999)

"A Clockwork Orange" can be the scariest film you've ever seen, because one day our society may end up like the one seen in the film--a place where ordinary people are afraid to walk outside even in the daytime, where innocent young women can be taken from the streets and raped, where the government itself doesn't seem the perfect solution. Sound familiar? Perhaps in twenty years, you'll be staring into the blue eyes of Alex while he asks you in his Nadsat slang if you value your life.
Possibly Stanley Kubrick's best film after "2001"--but who can put Kubrick's films into any particular ranking when they're all so excellent? "A Clockwork Orange" is not a "cool" film in any sense. It's not sick or offensive or bad. It's a social commentary on life, and the book on which the film is based is even better--though the film is perfect because of its visual look of the near future. "A Clockwork Orange" is already a cult classic--and future generations will watch it and hopefully learn from it.