Stanley Kubrick's first full movie with a pro cast. It's got a lot to admire. A great cast. Great dialogue. Amazing camera work. I mean you can see Kubrick's fingerprints all over the camera work. A sign of things to come...
But the voice over narration at the beginning and through out...holy shit does it suck. That narration almost killed it for me. Yet I muscle fucked my way through the narration and was pleasantly surprised. It left me wondering why in the hell the narration was necessary. And realized it wasn't.
Which brings me to another point: Tarantino learned this. Reservoir Dogs had a similar non-linear story but it told us without the narration. It worked ten times better.
I should add further explanation: there's a great scene near the end where a cop involved with the plot ignores a woman in distress. We get it.. He's involved. He needs to be at a certain place at a certain time...
Then the fucking narration comes in and explains away the cop driving away as the woman beg's for help, completely undermining the power of the scene. Lame.
My advice, watch it but mute it whenever you hear narration. It's...dumb.
I give this:
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