A violent tale of flashy colors, in a brilliant film that runs like clockwork

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2014)

Kubrick set a new era in shock film making, in what can only be described, as a true original, a bold, brilliant, and sick twisted masterpiece with color. Four neanderthals, led by Alex (a brilliant Macdowell at his finest, through which the story is narrated in it's wonderfully brilliant dialogue of script) get their kicks, looting, beating up people, rape, what have you, until Mcdowell stuffs up badly and going too far, resulting i the taking of a life. Mcdowell's is sent to a prison, then a hospital, where his punishment becomes his treatment, where he voluntarily undertakes all these horrible experiments, that will hopefully rid and cure him, of all this impurity and evil, one horrible exercise has him forced to viddy all these sick films where he can't turn away, as having his eyes clamped open. Reformed, back in the public sector, he begins to sense somethings not right, as in his treatment, where he's suffering stomach cramps, whatever, and is not really expecting the quite cold or passive reception he gets from his folks + a new border. What did they really do to him in that hospital. ACO does ride high on style, so many wonderful images, you get off this film, like the nude statues in the milk bar, from which you obtain your daily source of nourishment in terms of milk and shakes. That fast forwarding rape scene was stupid though, I have to fault it, where I can't believe someone was actually affected by this scene. The scene I was much affected, where again, it pains me to think of, was one of Alex's droogies, getting whacked in the nuts, by Alex's stick, and flying side off into that fountain. Of course this undying hit won't sot well with everyone. It will disturb and challenge. I know people who hate the film, one person, saying it was the worst movie, he ever saw. This one, is in the eye of the beholder. You can't fault it's originality, and one that decides to push the envelope, so to speak. Mcdowell's performance is just a masterpiece, and honestly in spite of Alex's cruelty and wrong doings on others. we can't help feeling a bit sorry for the sod, who we really see get his act together, but it's here in the aftermath of his prison/hospital time, where a nice little spin, twist has been put on the story. It's funny too, without really meaning to be, but the onus here, is put on Mcdowell mainly, in how he brilliantly delivers some of his dialogue. An enticing R Rated experience, all the way. The film is just not for everyone. Mainly it's the color of the film that will stay with ya, in Kubrick's finest hour.