Cool Hand Luke is a nice and entertaining motion picture with a new taste of prison life depiction. It would be better to look at the good and bad sides hand in hand.
The movie shows the life of a decorated war veteran in prison where he finds and dislikes the lots of rules, regulation, bosses and captain. He meet other prisoners and soon win over them. He always wishes to escape but one brutal act by the authorities during his mothers death makes him to escape. The third and final escape turns out to be fatal for him.
It starts with rather unclear reason of Luke getting in prison. Now when its Paul Newman as Luke, certainly his acting was enjoyable with feel good events. Even then the script didn't seem going together and fit with his acting, yet both script and acting were good. The plot is new, entertaining and enjoyable with few beautiful depiction of human behaviour in fine manner and tough circumstances. Dialogues, were just good and fun to hear. The escape sequences were special attractions. Supporting actors were weak and not to the match with Newman yet don't know why Oscar awards saw it differently. The film is certainly not the greatest or good movie, here no doubt it got no Oscar nomination except for acting performances, but nevertheless Cool Hand Luke can be liked.
The movie shows the life of a decorated war veteran in prison where he finds and dislikes the lots of rules, regulation, bosses and captain. He meet other prisoners and soon win over them. He always wishes to escape but one brutal act by the authorities during his mothers death makes him to escape. The third and final escape turns out to be fatal for him.
It starts with rather unclear reason of Luke getting in prison. Now when its Paul Newman as Luke, certainly his acting was enjoyable with feel good events. Even then the script didn't seem going together and fit with his acting, yet both script and acting were good. The plot is new, entertaining and enjoyable with few beautiful depiction of human behaviour in fine manner and tough circumstances. Dialogues, were just good and fun to hear. The escape sequences were special attractions. Supporting actors were weak and not to the match with Newman yet don't know why Oscar awards saw it differently. The film is certainly not the greatest or good movie, here no doubt it got no Oscar nomination except for acting performances, but nevertheless Cool Hand Luke can be liked.