Kubrick's best movie

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 1999)

In honor of the director's recent death, I've rewatched almost all of his movies and decided this is truly his greatest, the most fully realized in terms of character, style and message. As I love Kubrick films, this is saying a lot. The subject matter is still appalling and hard to watch, but I wish those directors of the Van Damme/Schwartzenegger school of movies would watch this to really learn what violence is.
As always, a cast of relative unknowns makes the movie sparkle and Malcolm MacDowell's all-out performance is spellbinding.