What a powerful speech!

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2006)

I've never before seen this film in its entirety, simply because Chaplin's style has never really been much to my liking. The film as a whole is rather drawn-out and slow, his comedic impersonation of Hitler gets old after a while. But I watched it fully the other night, and realized what a powerful story it tells, and OMIGOD!! his speech in those couple of final scenes are to me, the some of the most powerful & beautiful social/political commentary I've even seen or heard. Not only for the context of its time (1940) but for ALL time, ALL the world to see and hear! I never knew Chaplin's personal convictions ran so deep. After watching this one, I now have an entirely new & different view of him, quite apart from his comic character, as a citizen of the world who cared strongly enough to put his words on film! EXCELLENT!!