Does not do the story justice.

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2010)

First of all, let me state that Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" is one of the most phenomenal books I have had the pleasure of reading. I've known about the film for many years now, and have given it multiple viewings--not even being able to make it all the way through the first few sittings. The main character, Alex, is a completely different person in the film than he is in the book. Burgess' character has a very likable way about him. Though he's committing acts of violence, he manages to win your heart over and you cannot help but side with him throughout. However, in Kubrick's "masterpiece," Alex is an annoying, underdeveloped character that you never feel any emotions for. He's not scary, loving, funny.. he's just, there.
I've viewed the film before reading the book, couldn't finish it. After loving the story so much, and knowing the high regards the film gets, I had to watch it again, and once again I didn't like it. So much more could have been done! It drives me crazy that this is rated so highly when to me it seems like a mediocre attempt at reconstructing a real masterpiece. The book itself deserves beyond a 10/10 rating, whereas I hate to even rate the film.
Burgess, Kubrick has done you wrong my friend.