The piece of cinema of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2005)

Stanley Kubrick's nightmare comedy always delivers with its acid-tongue lashings at military minds and portrays war as something big-wigs do to work off some adrenaline. From Slim Pickens riding the bomb down to a nuclear orgasm to George C Scott's portrayal of a murderous, war-loving general who would love to kick start the Apocalypse so long as he can spend 100 years deep underground with many women "with highly sexually stimulating natures". And the piece de la resistance was Peter Sellers as Doctor Strangelove, President Merkin (a name for a pubic hair wig) Muffley and Royal Air Force officer Lionel Mandrake. His improv not only on Strangelove's lines but also in the dialogue from the infamous "hotline" scene where the president has to talk to a drunken Soviet Premier to warn him of a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. are just brilliant. The fact that this movie is EVEN fresher now than it was back in 1964 when it was released shows the film's power. As if it would be allowed back into the American public. This movie lost the Oscar for Best Picture Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor to Becket and My Fair Lady proving that the Oscars really don't mean anything.