I'm glad this one flew onto my TV screen

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2001)

Every Jack Nicholson film that i have seen everyone that i have known has been making comparisons to his acting abilities with THIS film. People saying that he was great in 'As good as it gets' and 'Batman' but nothing could ever push the part he played in 'One flew over the cuckoos nest'. This is when i decided to watch it!!!
Straight from the off we could see that there was so much talent and energy in the role that Nicholson potrays as mental patient MacMurphy who finds himself being monitored by the institution that he has been sent to in order to find out if he really is mental???
At the academy awards of 1975 this swept the board including Nicholson taking Best Actor and Louise Fletcher taking a well deserved Best Actress. But i thought that the incredibly talented Brad Douriff who made his debut with this film as Billy, was very unlucky to pick up best supporting actor in which he was nominated for. Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Will Sampson were all brilliant as the inmates of the hospital and showed that its all about the overall cast and not just one actor.

The film itself is incredible, nothing like i've ever seen before and puts very stupid versions like 28 days way out of context! You could cut the tension with a knife in every encounter between Macmurphy and nurse Ratched, it literally was end of your seat stuff.
Why i havn't watched this film sooner is beyond me, so please anyone out there reading these comments that hasn't seen this film, pick it up from your local video store A.S.A.P...........
10/10