Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Your glazzies will be glued to the screen
More than thirty years on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE remains a masterpiecce despite being somewhat dated. In fact I found this to add to the fun.Alex is a young criminal who terrorises the streets of England sometime in the not so distant future with his band of boiler suited, bowler hatted droogs. The gang takes great pleasure in donning their "maskies", drinking molokko in their favourite cafe (milk lace with amphetamines) and beating drunken old vecks, raping devotckas and generally making life hell for anybody who dares to cross their paths. However after one nights ultra-violent pillaging, Alex's droogs desert thier leader and he is arrested and forced to undergo an experiment which aims to cure him of his violent ways. But is it really effective?Personally this is my favourite of all Kubrick's movies, Malcolm McDowell gives one of his best performances as Alex and though it's relatively tame today, this satire is still darkly funny and utterly compelling. I haven't seen the uncut version which runs about 15 minutes longer (Reputedly there's a rape scene that's ten minutes long. Eeeeww. I don't know if that's true or not) but this is great. I've seen the movie about five times so far and I highly recommend it. The cast also features Partick McGoohan and a pre- STAR WARS David Prowse.