Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 2.0
Kubrick does not do Burgess' masterpiece justice
The book was incredible. Fresh and stirring. Also, wonderfully disturbing. The movie, however, never made it past "disturbing." The performances and direction fell extremely short of what could have been done with Burgess' amazing novel. Perhaps my mistake was in reading the book before watching the flick. Either way, it's obvious that Kubrick was attempting to inject the same level of art and originality into the filmmaking as Burgess did into the book, but, sadly, it was a dismal failure, in which the integrity of the book was lost. Kubrick was a very talented director, but he unfortunately missed the boat with "A Clockwork Orange."