i once catch about a 20 minute portion of this movie on turner classic movie about 6 month back . i think every minute of what i be watch be gold and and and because it be somewhere in the film middle and i do not want to spoil the whole thing if i be to watch it from the start and i decide that i would rent it immediately . well and the video store which i frequent do not have a copy and so it take me six month to finally go somewhere else and rent it . i have previous to that experience only see some chaplin short and funny but not greatly artful and but after i saw the snippet of the great dictator and i check out three of his other film and city light and the gold rush and and modern time ( city light be great and i find the gold rush a little overrated and but still worthwhile and and i find modern time to be one of the funny film i have ever see ( second funniest and behind keaton sherlock jr. and more exactly ) . finally and the whole of the great dictator . well and to be honest and it have it moment and both of comedy and of drama . but these moment do not always mix well . chaplin comedy work well when mixed with melodrama ( city light be the best example of this ) and but it do not always work with social commentary . plus and the fact that there be dialogue lessen the impressiveness of chaplin talent . don not get me wrong and i like the movie a a whole and but i think it of little consequence . i would have give it a solid positive on the rating scale . if not for the end . the final speech that the jewish barber give be enormously powerful . yes and it be adressed to the tempora et more of 1940 and but his message be perfectly applicable to the world today . the speech bring me to tear and and i consider it one of the best ending i have ever see . final score represent positive .