A universal masterpiece of cinema

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2008)

Dr. Strangelove is one of the rare movies that are so well done that they become great movies despite their astonishing simplicity. A simplicity that reveals by the same time a subtle complexity. The movie, part of Stanley Kubrick's most remarkable work, is gorgeous by the intelligence of the direction, the scenario and the cast.
Stanley Kubrick had just begin his career of director/producer in the industry when he did Dr. Strangelove and, even if he was young at the time, we can feel the incredible genius of the director by the way he conducts the story along the movie. The shots and especially the lightnings make the scenes of that picture unforgettable and rich of quality.
The tale is pretty simple, it turns around the situation of an unwanted nuclear attack of the USA in USSR. A situation pretty funny but that was realistic in those years and this is what make the movie so blackly funny. Many sides of the situation are shown with different settings and characters which is brilliant. Globally, the scenario is gorgeous, a so intelligent tale despite as it been said it's simplicity and subtlety.
One of the major remarkable points about that film is the performance of the actors, all of them are astonishing including of course Peter Sellers, who is playing for me the greatest performance(s)of his whole career. James C. Scott and Sterling Hayden are also leading well played roles and are both wonderful.
Dr. Strangelove is a movie that looks to get better by each passing year and, more than 40 years after it's release, we can still laugh and admire that wonderful movie that won't take a ride for the next hundred years. It is truly a universal masterpiece of cinema, and arguably one of the better movies of the cinema history.