A strange fruit to say the least

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 2000)

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
Natural curiosity is more a reason than any to watch a movie.Having been banned on video for apparently 29 years, A Clockwork Orange,like all the rest,inspires you to watch it if only to see what all the fuss was about.Reservoir Dogs was splendid,The Exorcist was watchable.....but,then again,Natural Born Killers was an unspeakable mess.This film emerges on that unparallel line between uniquely great,and preposterously dreadful.
There is,whichever way you look at it,actually very little rhyme or reason to the story of this film.Like in his past overrated disappointment 2001:A Space Odyssey,Kubrick has instead here mesmerised the audience with his own variently effective roleplay on how his orchestra of filming should go.He was capable of great,more reasonably effective work in the past,as The Shining and Full Metal Jacket have proven,while Eyes Wide Shut remains to be seen on my part,but,revolutionary filmmaker he was,it was perhaps slightly unfair of him to expect the audience to swallow his own complicated world view on such astoundingly thin plot material,though the lead young man's journey from an unscrupulous lawbreaker to a dedicated abider of law and order is strangely involving.
Yes,again in this scenario,maybe due to the film's age,it's hard to see what all the fuss was about.Which is,in turn,all the worst,leaving you with an unbelievably uneven whole that churns you in for the ride,and endures you in it's inexplicable revelation.**