Mungo Jerry

Rating: 7/10 (9 September 2006)

McDowell's performance alone makes this a good film. However (and maybe it's been mentioned elsewhere), the idea of using classical music and mentioning fictional pop groups so as not to date the piece is scuppered... the blonde in the record shop clearly seems to leaf through a Mungo Jerry Record ! How did that slip through? I think I also caught sight of a poster in the record shop saying 'you need Bread'.. If Peter Osgood had been in the shop, they couldn't have dated the film more. How did a master filmmaker like Kubrick manage to make such a terrible gaff? The film is no longer a near future nightmare, it's a distant flower power memory.