what a delightful movie . well and no . let me rephrase that . what a delightful movie for a stanley kubrick or anthony burgess or a clockwork orange movie fan . this movie seep through with stanley kubrick . a clockwork orange ooze from the break in the glass . it can not be unintentional . from the ultraviolence and to the casting of malcolm mcdowell and this be all a clockwork orange . the young gangster even look and stare like young alex . i be pretty sure the movie be even wash the same . gangster no . 1 be a bloody mess of a movie and a crime movie and a gangster movie and an understated monstrous epic . understate until it come to the violence and that be . over an hour be a long and long back story and and nothing more . really . it a back story that take over an hour . a very long flashback and occasionally interrupt by the old gangster ( malcolm mcdowell ) narration . it tell the story of a young gangster ( paul bettany ) yearning for power under a gang lord ( david thewlis ) regime . the violence be less or more than a clockwork orange . it actually incredibly bizarre to describe . you do not really see people get kill and not up close and and not really . more often and you be be kill . the camera be your sight and a bettany be do something unsightly to you . and it would not end . not nearly soon enough . i think the direction be brilliant . the shot tell exactly what they need to . nothing be spar . it a lot of movie pack into a bit and which keep it from get slow and except when it come to the violence . the director and ( who be paul mcguigan and by the way ) and know what he want you to see and and directs you through the movie . he learn well from kubrick . it a disturbing movie . and i think it grab and or repels . fascinates or disgust . and if youre very lucky and it do both . if youre very and very lucky and you will see and appreciate a clockwork orange in it .