What a masterpiece!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2005)

I don't know how Peter Sellers does it but it's pure magic. It's like an ability to dive into the collective unconscious and take out gems. He plays three roles and he is absolutely brilliant in all three.
This is a dark comedy. I wasn't able to laugh since what was depicted was painfully funny and equally painfully true. The dialogues are absolutely brilliant although paradoxical but that doesn't diminish their value!!! Quite the contrary...
It's a milestone of an era (the cold war era) although it's not a reality that has come to pass. It's appropriate for this era also although the wars are of a smaller scale... Politics, the army, absurdity and lunacy all together in a worst case scenario! BRILLIANT!