It's hard to make a film better that this

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 1998)

It's a look into the future with just a twist on the attitudes of the present, a hard twist. There's no far out futuristic and improbable new world, just the same one we have today with new drugs, but the same problems. The amazing creation here is not a dazzling vision of the future, but the insight into a mind that has moved light-years from what we consider socially acceptable and is at the same time likeable and sympathetic, regardless of his visciousness and lack of a conscience. He's not even aware that such a thing exists, let alone how it could possibly benefit him to have one. The moral question posed here, however, is how far can society stretch its morals in order to impose bureaucratic enforced standards on the masses. The characters are well rounded and there are some truly memorable scenes. I can still speak much of Alex's pseudo Russian-English dialect even after 27 years. Now that's a movie that has an effect on you. I recommend that all you starry-eyed vetches viddy the book.