excellent

Rating: 10/10 (30 March 2003)

although i love kubrick i was expecting a boring and stupid movie here, i mean, ryan o'neill as the principal character sounded to me a little bit disgusting, it was 3 hours long and having seen most of kubricks movies before i couldn't think of a movie that topped for example "the shining", well, i was partly right, because this movie didn't topped "the shining", but i was amazed that this one was a close second or third. i just loved the movie.
ryan o'neill is amazing and his character is very complex. the others were also excellent, specially the russian general (or whatever he was). costumes were very accurate and the editing was flawless. but, without a doubt the best of the movie are the backgrounds, they look like a painting and i had to watch them several times to be satisfied. the picture was just magical and beautiful. stanley did an excellent job indeed. you won't be dissapointed if you watch this.
special mention to the battle scene where barry helps his friend, the scene was very shocking and the soldiers marching like that looked as a very powerful scene. 10/10