Astonishing

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2002)

Quite simply, a movie that draws you in and provokes all kinds of emotions. You feel such a strong empathy for the plight of the patients that you find yourself willing them revolt to rise up against the system. Only Jack Nicholson could've played a character as strong and vibrant as McMurphy, and a better supporting cast I have yet to see to this day. Whilst watching this film I cried both tears of laughter and tears of sadness, and through the tears I found a sense of some immense but undefinable human truth trying to reach out to me. "Astonishing" is a word that I do not use lightly in any walk of life, yet in this case it is the only single word that I can find to describe this truly remarkable film.