Roger Ebert like alot of critics was appalled by Clockwork Orange. Though he has celebrated Kubrick in other movies, like with The Shining and 2001 which he loved; he slammed Kubrick in this ciritique: 'Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading As an Orwellian warning. It pretends to oppose the police state and forced mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its hero, Alex.' Roger Ebert goes on to describe how disgusting the movie was; and how disgusted he was with Kubrick for making; slamming it as basically sadistic torture porn: "I don't know quite how to explain my disgust at Alex (whom Kubrick likes very much, as his visual style reveals and as we shall see in a moment). Alex is the sort of fearsomely strange person we've all run across a few times in our lives - usually when he and we were children, and he was less inclined to conceal his hobbies. He must have been the kind of kid who tore off the wings of flies and ate ants just because that was so disgusting. He was the kid who always seemed to know more about sex than anyone else, too - and especially about how dirty it was." Ebert goes on to say there is no real reason to see the movie; and all the good reviews were basically hype: "I don't know. But they've really hyped "A Clockwork Orange" for more than it's worth, and a lot of people will go if only out of curiosity. Too bad. In addition to the things I've mentioned above - things I really got mad about - "A Clockwork Orange" commits another, perhaps even more unforgivable, artistic sin. It is just plain talky and boring. You know there's something wrong with a movie when the last third feels like the last half."