One of the best movies I've ever seen

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 1999)

One of my favorite movie director is Stanley Kubrick. I used to compare him to Scorcese and Tarantino. But after watching Barry Lyndon, I have to say that Kubrick is the best of them all.
It's hard to believe but I'd like if Barry Lyndon were longer the its 185min. Thackeray novel is too good to be shown in "just" 3 hours. But Kubrick did the best that could be done.
If there where only the second half of the movie - the decline of Lyndon's life - it would be already a great movie. But there's also the first part of the movie. Beginning with the duel with a England army captain till marrying with Lady Lyndon when he still lived in Ireland, Redmond goes to the Seven Years War, fighting with England, sees his uncle die in batte field, running away from the England army, been captured by Prussian Army ,working as a spy and finally working as a gambler.
Technically, the movie is perfect and uses a special NASA-made lens for the inside scenes illuminated only by candle-lights.