Enormous film. Cruel, ruthless, cynical, Stanley Kubrick's first great masterpiece remains one of his most beautiful films even today. It has no flaws, the direction is marvelous, the screenplay is ironclad, and the performances of Kirk Douglas and McReady are absolutely stunning. Probably the greatest anti-militarist film of all time. The execution scene, in its simple, ruthless cruelty, has an impressive visual power. The ending is one of the deepest and most successful ever.
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