The weakest Kubrick is loved by everybody - for whatever reason.

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2007)

Strange. Kubrick is my favourite director but when it comes to this film - which is loved by critics and the public alike - I am not that impressed. It's not that I mind its politics; rather, the movie is simply dull. The humour doesn't work. A yokel-pilot riding a nuclear bomb over Russia and shouting "yeeechawww" is something that might be funny in a Bugs Bunny cartoon but simply comes off as a cheap sight gag out of "Police Academy 12". Kubrick is as ill-suited to do a comedy as Spike Lee is to make a masterpiece (in any genre). "Lolita" had humour, and it was good, but the movie was a comedy drama. Here Kubrick tried his hands on an all-out satire and the result is his easily weakest post-Spartacus film. The gags are somehow hollow and too obvious. If I hadn't known it was made by Kubrick I perhaps wouldn't have even guessed it.