Title: Off the Rails
Product review: Something happened to Lindsay Anderson between O! Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital. They, like If..., are both ferocious satires, but where O! Lucky Man attacked its targets with wit and energy, Britannia is an angry, predictable bludgeon. It's as if all the ingredients in the film are, like half a brain in one particularly witless scene, tossed into a blender, whirled together and served frenetically for nearly two hours. All in all, it's misanthropy times 10, mitigated only by an equally savage, but appropriate, satire of the mad, egocentric doctor's purported improvement on humanity. Remember Anderson for If.. and Lucky Man, but not this.
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