Negative Positive
Title: Nicholson superb in one of the best films of the 1970s
Review: Jack Nicholson shines in this superior adaptation of Ken Kesey's modern masterpiece One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Film acting really doesn't get much better than this. Jack's performance is so strong, it even makes Louise Fletcher's performance as Big Nurse (called Nurse Ratched in the film) seem much better than it really is. (That Fletcher won the Oscar for this film is testimony to the film's narrative potency since she is not that talented an actress, as her subsequent career has revealed. One wonders how much better the film would have been with a real actress of the caliber of Geraldine Paige or Collen Dewhurst, who incidentally turned the role down, playing Big Nurse.)The supporting cast is particulary memorable in this film. A truly seminal film of the 1970s.
Is the review positive or negative? 