Nobody denies that Stanley Kubrick was a unique director, one of the best ever of those who worked in the United States, and that the story of his life and his pictures is something really interesting and worth seeing. I had devoured a book about Kubrick's films before, and I was absolutely fascinated. But I am not supposed to review Stanley Kubrick but this movie about him.
I rate it only 5 out of 10 because in my opinion it is too long but at the same time does not take its time to deal with the individual films there are too many of them (although Kubrick himself is stated to have considered them too few!). Maybe they should have decided to concentrate on particular aspects of Kubrick's work.
The interviewees are credited only by their functions not by their names, so we often do not know who we have in front of us.
And altogether, as this film was made as a huge homage to Kubrick after his death, it is much too glorifying, too humble and too full of devotion. And hymns of praise sung to somebody else is not what one wants to hear for 135 minutes throughout.
I rate it only 5 out of 10 because in my opinion it is too long but at the same time does not take its time to deal with the individual films there are too many of them (although Kubrick himself is stated to have considered them too few!). Maybe they should have decided to concentrate on particular aspects of Kubrick's work.
The interviewees are credited only by their functions not by their names, so we often do not know who we have in front of us.
And altogether, as this film was made as a huge homage to Kubrick after his death, it is much too glorifying, too humble and too full of devotion. And hymns of praise sung to somebody else is not what one wants to hear for 135 minutes throughout.