Kubrick's best film.

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2001)

BARRY LYNDON works much diffently from a conventional film. There is no instant gratification in Kubrick's three hour epic about an Irish rogue. It all comes slowly, and should be treated as so, like a walk through a museum. Many scenes are so beautifully slow, that it shows that Kubrick's mad-perfectist style of directing pays off. The slowness, if taken right, without interuption, hypnotises the viewer. By the time the film is nearly over, we are glued to the screen. The final outcome in BARRY LYNDON, where Ryan O'Neal's title character gets his come-uppance the film has you by the throat! Kubrick's exsisting light cinematography, the set design, the incredible (and never overused) use of music makes this one of the best long epics ever made. See it on the big screen.