Another Kubrick Debacle

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2013)

Regardless of the horrendous movies that Stanley Kubrick has made during his disappointing career, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange", I still gave "Dr. Strangelove" an honest chance. And unfortunately, Kubrick failed to deliver once again.
My main problem with the film was that it's far too monotonous to be truly funny. I'm not exaggerating when I say this: every single attempt at humor in this movie fails. Every single one. Most of the blame goes to the poor script, and some of it falls on the actors on portrayal here. Peter Sellers fails to deliver his lines with wit or charisma, and it doesn't help that he plays three characters. It's bad enough he does poorly in one of the roles, but all three? Truly disastrous work. How he was offered roles following this movie is truly a wonder.
Moving on, I feel that the visual effects in this movie are a bit dated. Some of the sequences seemed totally unrealistic, and drew me out of the scene. If they had spent a little more time on the visual effects, and added some wit and humor to the script, they might have had something to work with. But there's truly nothing going on here. The narrative is a mess, and there's no sense of coherency or reason behind any of the choices that the characters make.
There's no reason to see this movie, and it's painfully sad to see a movie that could have potentially succeeded in the ways that "All About Steve" did, but unfortunately I don't think we can expect anything better than this at the hands of Kubrick.