McDowell Gives One of the Best Performances Ever

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2005)

A Clockwork Orange is a very well made film, but has some extremely large problems, for instance it admires it's sadistic rapist lead with a passion. Also it is not original in the slightest. The story is not original in the slightest. The story steals from many classics of the same nature, that is of a controlling future, and has so much of 1984 in it that I'm surprised it was made in the first place, it's almost a remake. The screenplay is good, the dialogue is sometimes clunky, but the way the scenes are put together is very good. The acting is amazing, Malcolm McDowell and others are fantastic. The direction is good, Kubricks worst direction but not that bad. The visual effects are fair, so much of it looks fake by todays standards, but is so great by the standards of the early seventies. Overrated, but has some great moments, and McDowell gives one of the best performances in film history.