this was okay

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2002)

I usualy like two types of movies,movies about the old world like this one, and modern space epics like star wars and star trek. and this one falls under the same catagory as films like "The Man in the Iron Mask" or "The Patriot", only thing is that those films are much better than this one.- however this is one of the most beautifuly cinematography in a movie that I ever seen,Ddespite the Bazaar way this film plays out. I dont believe any film has ever captured the feel of the late 1700's better than this film did. the costumes are great,and sets are perfect. I also liked the whole natural light method in which this film was made.And the story is set into 2 halves, the first half is the rise Redmon Barry, and the 2nd half is the fall of Barry Lyndon(who are the same person)I even liked the narration of this film(I normaly despise narration- but the narration worked perfect for this film). This is a very classy film, and all of the actors did an outstanding job.(BTW:this film won 4 oscars). I reccomend this film, -you may or may not like it(I liked it but will also admit that other films in this same genre will blow it away -I found it interesting that a box set was released in 2000 with all of Kubrick's films in it- but this one(Barry Lyndon)was the only Kubrick film not in the box set. Kubrick knew that this film couldn't stand up to other films in this genre which is why he called it a failure-He believed at the time he was filming it that this was going to be his "Gone With the Wind" sweeping epic that would be endured for all times - and it never became that). This film also has one of the most unusual music scores I ever heard,the only way to describe the music in this film is wierd.But If you really liked this film you need to See "Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Series," any of the A&E "Horatio Hornblower" movies or "The Patriot"(Starring Mel Gibson)because after seeing truely great movies like those, you will soon forget about Barry Lyndon. I will give it 3 out of 5 stars -Its still a much underated good movie