The epic, dystopic vision of ultraviolence

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2003)

This was Kubrick's first film following his magnum opus, "2001: A Space Odyssey" and if anything exceeds that film in pure audacity. The audience experience an epiphany even more cathartic than that of Alex (played with dead-on insouciance by Malcolm McDowell). Kubrick's unsparing eye harpoons the penal system, the Church of England, trendy Skinnerian behaviorism, and a host of other modern madnesses -- all to the angelic scores of lovely, lovely Ludwig Van!