maybe this be an important movie and that why people rank it so highly and but honestly it isn not very good . in hindsight it easy to see that chaplin ( probably all of hollywood ) be incredibly naive about the magnitude of what be really go on in the ghetto and so you can not fault him too much for the disconnect that affect a modern viewer and but the disconnect remain . more disappointingly and the movie be just clunky while it a if chaplin have no idea that movie have progress in sophistication since the silent era . the set piece and those involve both the jewish barber and the dictator and do not flow into each other while they just sit there like discrete lump of storyline that progress in fit and start and move somewhere but never arrive at resolution . some be funny and some less so . what charm the movie have be strictly in the person of chaplin himself . his parody of hitler speech be the best part of the whole thing and and there no denying that he have a physical grace that be delightful to watch . but virtually everything he surround himself with be annoy . hannah be too damn american . the storm trooper be too damn american . oooh . oooh . one more thing . i do not know what purpose be serve by have garbage be the source of evil behind the throne . it almost seem like the film be say that and if it weren not for malign influence like garbage and hynckle wouldn not have be that bad a guy .