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Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Rate: 7
Viewed: 4/06

4/06: Cool Hand Luke has left me baffled.

It's about a person who chooses to piss his life away for no apparent reason. That makes it hard for me to care about him. The movie is too long, and the momentum dies after a couple of Luke's escape attempts. I have no sympathy for him, and the ending doesn't do anything for me. The well-known line "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is overrated.

Paul Newman relies on his good looks to get by instead of getting into his character. George Kennedy's Oscar win is a joke. It's nothing special. On the bright side, I like the prison life and the subplots, especially the tanned woman and the fifty eggs contest.

All in all, there are better prison pictures than Cool Hand Luke.

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