Review of Barry Lyndon (1975) by Shawn M — 12 Apr 2012

This movie has brilliant style and visual effects (for it's time) from a fairly restrained Kubrick. Not nearly as eccentric as some of his more notable films. Unfortunately it wasn't as interesting as most of his others.

The story was much like reading a very slow moving classic novel, and there wasn't a lot actually happening. I understand what that much of it was satirical and the underlying themes of the story, but it still just was mainly uninteresting.

Barry Lyndon was extremely well shot though, and fairly well acted, so it wasn't bad. Just not that good either.