Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Ultraviolence done to a tee
Stanley Kubrick to film is like Jesus to Christianity...ok, maybe taking it a bit to far...but the man is amazing, brilliant, and dead. I just wish he could have finished AI, now that sap-master Steven Spielberg has taken over production, it is bound to be so-so, when it could have been a masterpiece...you dig? Spielberg's only film worth mentioning is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He makes hits, not good movies.But back to the review. Malcolm McDowell is the broody, violent, intense, teenage sociopath Alex in Kubrick's film adaptation of Burgess' famous novel "A Clockwork Orange." With his droogs (georgie boy et al) he involves himself over-mischievious acts of "ultraviolence," rape, drinking laced milk, and listening to the beloved Beethoven. Set to an amazing classical score rearranged with synthesizers to portray the dark, knee-book reality that is Alex's life, we are swept into this dark world that Burgess has created and Kubrick brings to life. I will never listen to Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" the same again. Some people may say that after he is "reformed" the movie turns slow, but I believe it is brilliant. And to everyone who believes that this movie is way too disturbing, grow a pair. Kubrick lives!!!