great

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2020)

Premiered in 1940, it was a scathing satire on nazism and adolf Hitler. The climax comes at the end of the film, when he overtly calls for a political confrontation with fascism.
What makes the film special is that it was released at a time before the United States entered world war ii, when it was still on good terms with Nazi Germany. Before the panic over nazism had fully broken out, Chaplin's work was shocking and condemned Hitler, fascism, militarism and nazism. "Robots have only mechanical minds and mechanical minds," he says at the end of the film. (Machine men, with Machine minds and Machine hearts.) The film was Chaplin's first sound film and one of his best box office hits.