Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 4.0
Remarkable
A Clockwork Orange has been banned in the UK for the last 25 years (at Kubrick's behest) and only now has it been re-released here following his death. It is indeed a masterpiece and one of the most original and disturbing films I have ever seen; superbly acted and directed. My only quibble is that the rape scenes seem gratuitous and unpleasant; they are presented almost humorously by Kubrick which, despite the film's otherwise immense quality, is unforgivable. This does not really justify his withdrawal of it from British audiences for the last 2 and a half decades, however.