BBM at the Movies - A Clockwork Orange review

     A Clockwork Orange     Bush - 8         Dave - 7
           Score - 7.75                  Bates - 7.5      D.I. Richard Bates - 8.5
                                                Mahon - 7.5    CRushton - 8

   1971
   131 mins
   dir - Stanley Kubrick
   stars - Malcolm McDowell - Alex
             Patrick Magee         - Frank Alexander
             Warren Clarke         - Dim

        Alex and his three buddies' hobbies include "a bit of the old ultra-violence," rape
     and theft and throughout the first half of this film we are shown them indulging in
     this to excess. After Alex is srewed over by the other three he is arrested for the
     murder that he has just commited and later imprisoned for this crime. He is given
     the opportunity to get out of prison early if he agrees to undergo an experimental
     treatment that should cure him of the urges to commit these crimes and he accepts
     the opportunity only to find that because of the treatment, life on the outside isn't as
     easy as he had hoped.
             I thought that Malcolm McDowell was excellent in the lead role and the way in
     which he delivered the lines and the way in which it is written in the novel by
     Anthony Burgess makes it a very interesting and original film to watch. Kubrick also
     plays a major part in this with some interesting direction and helps make it an instantly
     recognizable film.