Brilliant, my favorite Kubrick movie.

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2002)

*CONTAINS SOME MINOR SPOILERS*
I have been a Kubrick fan for many years. It al started when I watched
"The shining" and films like "A clockwork orange" and the brilliant "2001: A space odyssey" made me only love his work more. But I never saw Barry Lyndon untill last week. I didn't really know what to expect. I'm not a really big fan of those historical movies, but I figured what the hell, its kubrick so it can't be that bad. It wasn't.
Barry lyndon is an absolute masterpiece. It tells the story of the Irish lad Redmond Barry and his way to the "top". The steps he takes to reach it, and the outcomes of his decisions, the wrong ones and the right ones. Every shot in this movie is pure magic. Every thing is right in its place and it takes you back to the 18th century like no movie before did.

What I personally love about the movie is the way Barry kept changing in my eyes. The first part I felt sympathie for him and his strugel but after the intermission that completly changend and I hoped something awfull would happend to him and when it happend I felt sympathie all over again.
So please go get it (dont rent you want to see it at least twice). You will be taken into a breath taking world, be told an amazing story and you will experince the magic of Kubrick.