hate it

Rating: 4/10 (29 April 2007)

This film has always left me cold. Yes I do get it! No, I am no bored teenager with the attention span of a gnat.I am 59 and a lover of movies of all genres. When I first saw it I think I was too young to appreciate it and I have tried several times over the last few decades to see it with new eyes. However it just does not work for me. Peter Sellers is over used in this (and he is a favourite of mine) and it unbalances the whole thing. Slim Pickens and George C. Scott are great but cannot save this. Quite simply it bores me to tears, I find my mind wandering and am unable to enjoy it. I have seen most of Kubricks movies and find them cold and uninvolving with the exceptions of Spartacus(how much was him?) Paths of Glory and The Killing. Overrated is the term I would employ. I do think the cinematography is great and the sentiment of the whole thing is admirable. But as entertainment it falls down badly (and above all movies should be entertaining even when thought-provoking).