Don't Bother

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2014)

OK, I'm sorry, but after watching this film twice, I still can not see why film critics love it. Truthfully, I am not a huge Kubrick fan, he's a little too artsy for me, this film is so extremely graphic when it doesn't need to be. The scene where his crew sexually assault a woman did not have to that detailed. It takes a good director to be able to get his/her point across without showing everything. For example, how could Charlie Chaplin's the Tramp get his points across without using a single word? Kubrick wanted to make it graphic to help emphasize his point, but he didn't think or care how it might effect actual victims of similar crimes. Those who think I'm being prudish have never been a victim or known one personally. The rest of the film is not near as clear as the way it is described, in fact it just meanders along with no real sense of direction at all, and ends with you scratching your head thinking, "Is the best he could do?" Please, if you have not seen this film, don't bother, you'll just wish you hadn't wasted two hours of your life.