This is not a good movie

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2013)

Stanley Kubrick is well known and perhaps the best director of Hollywood or perhaps the whole world, but Barry Lyndon is not a great movie. The very concept of a movie is to entertain people through any means; whether it's through thrill, or suspense or emotions or drama or comedy or any out of the world experience which this movie ain't contain a bit. It's a stale British Setup with monotonous narration and a presentation that seems to resemble that of a History Channel (or NGC). There's no craziness and spikes in the movie and the viewers remain quite aloof of what's happening. There's no strong flavor of good or evil, happy or sad but it's just long, boring and gloomy life of the main character. It seems Kubrick really became bored while living on outskirts of London, the psyche of which being shown through this film. Film creates sensations, and simply don't present the very mediocrity plain life which most of people usually are going through. This is one of the movies in which Kubrick became too lazy to even go to sets to direct it. Just cameraman, actors and writers flipped it by themselves. It's better to go for some other movie than this one.