don't mind people who over-love or who over-hate it.It depends on your sense of humor.You may like it you may hate it.You will see only after seeing it.

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 2005)

The first movie I saw by Kubrick was "Full Metal Jacket". I thought He was a brilliant director. To be honest the more I watched his movies the more I started to think that his movies have great humanitarian messages but they have per se sick themes. This is one of those movies which have hard-liners at both ends: Some liked it by describing dark comedy as brilliant some others hated it coz they did not see something very funny and probably they did not laugh more then three times during the whole movie. I always believed that a movie should be evaluated according to its time. I know that many people watched the movie because it is consistently in the top 20 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and they were openly disappointed. Well I am one of those guys who did not laugh much during the whole movie but I am impressed by the message.Given that the fact a trailer for the movie was included as an extra in the DVD release of "Fahrenheit 9/11" the movie got its message right though it was more than 40 years old now. If that were a better movie that could satirize the zeitgeist of cold war period than "Fahrenheit 9/11" would have been released with a different trailer I guess. The movie slips to a different character when you know that Peter Sellers improvised much of his dialog during filming. Sellers plays multiple parts each with an appropriate and successful accent. All in all I did not see a perfect movie in IMDb's top 250 list and I thought most of the movies were over-rated but this movie has a message but Petr Sellers is very good at his performance so I can't just say "Hey it sucks just because I did not see something funny" but I can't tell something like that either "Hey the movie is brilliant 10 out of ten". Even if you produce a dark comedy you have to offer a room to laugh for people.I believe Kubrick couldn't do that well enough. Not perfect but but not too bad either!