An All-Time Classic!

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2012)

This is one of the movies that changed the landscape of motion pictures forever.
Jack Nicholson appears after his first big role in "Chinatown" and shines. Milos Forman's creation has to be praised- a mixture of drama and comedy fulfilled with deep emotions. Forman presents a whole new world, a world behind "the Wall". There is one enthusiastic person who tries to destroy, or better, avoid this barrier, but finally fails. Like the political scene in the middle 70's in Europe, two different worlds separated, causing so much pain and trouble for a ordinary person. Inside "the Wall" the regime dictates and jeopardizes the basic thoughts of democracy and freedom. Formans great talent to find a balanced story, which enters deeply inside of you; and a remarkable cast of Nicholson, Fletcher, DeVito and Redfield all together make a winning formula.
This film was a prototype of all the modern movies made after it, from the "Rain Man", to the "Deer Hunter" to the modern "Girl. Interrupted".
Forman and Kubrick led us into a new era of film, as the real leaders of modern Cinema.
This is the one of ten or twenty movies you MUST SEE. 9 of 10 easy.