Entertaining and well-made, but overrated

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2001)

A Clockwork Orange is a movie with a cult following, Kubrick is a director with a cult following. I think its reputation is a bit over-hyped, personally. It seems to me there are opportunities where we could have been allowed to feel empathy with Alex, but instead Kubrick just gives us the thug's joke-y, flat inner monologue or funny melodrama. It's a shame, because I think Kubrick would have dug that. Kubrick is not all chill. There are moments of real emotion in his movies, but when Alex is scared or sad or angry, it all seems like a joke. Even if this was intentional, it could have been a better movie.