Yeah it's hard to rate this fairly because Kubrick may be a genius in terms of production and sound design and cinematography and such, but his storytelling is all over the place, and never have I been more jaded to one of his works than I was with Barry Lyndon. This strikes me entirely as Kubrick displaying his artful directing techniques and then just calling it a film by stringing together a series of barely-connected scenes using literally the worst narrative technique in film: exorbitant monotone narration. Seriously, did Michael Hordern know this wasn't a documentary?
As excellent as the movie looks (yeah yeah, every frame is a painting, natural lights, all that) it's the length of an epic drama without any of the epic... or the drama.
4/10
---
Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs