Disturbingly funny

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 1999)

Stanley Kubrick is the King Midas of cinema. I don't know how he takes such different topics, scripts and actors then weaves each film into a masterpiece nearly every time. I heard about Dr. Strangelove but it seemed too dated since I was not alive during the Missile Crisis and the Cold War was over before my adult years. I just thought I would not "get it". How wrong I was. This movie is totally relevant today because it is not just about nuclear doomsday but about human nature, egotism and the silliness of war.
Peter Sellers was unbelievable. The dialogue from the shoot out scene to the Presidential phone call is some of the funniest I have ever heard. All his characterizations were dead on.
It is a truly unique movie because the film's subject is plausible and simply terrifying yet presented as satire. Don't know how Kubrick pulled this one off but he did.