Cool Hand Luke

Pros: Direction, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

***In Memory of Paul Newman (1925-2008)***One of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen, Paul Newman had a quality where he was beautiful but also tough. He had charisma, grace, and a presence that can carry the room. ...

Pros: Makes you think.
Cons: None that I can recall.

The very first Paul Newman movie I ever saw in a movie theater was "Cool Hand Luke". I was 11. Prior to this, I only watched him on our black and white TV. The movie was about a man in a chain gang. At my young age, I was impressed by two things, and ...

Pros: One of the best endings I have seen.
Cons: Slower pace than modern films.

When people vote on the best prison movie of all time, most people would quickly answer that the "Shawshank Redemption" takes the cake nine times out of ten. Although I would clearly agree with these people, after watching the older film "Cool Hand Luke" ...

Pros: writing, acting, theme, surprises
Cons: slow, some parts are a little predictable

As a coworker recently mentioned, the character-piece film is a rarity these days.

Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman as the mysterious Luke, carries this tale of a strange, quiet man as he nihilistically runs life through freedom, jail,...

Pros: Well-written, great characters, timeless themes
Cons: Overacted at times

Cool Hand Luke is the ultimate movie for the nonconformist. Luke Jackson is sentenced to a chain gang for chopping the heads off of parking meters (Quite why is left a mystery, all Luke says about it is "Well, you know, small town, not much to do"). Once...

Pros: Trapper John & Paul Newman did good
Cons: This movie's retarded .

Now let me say right now without prejudice concerning this movie that Paul Newman does a pretty good job as does Wayne Rogers who of course was Trapper John on MASH. I mean Luke eats 50 eggs, lets that big dude beat the crap out of him but yet stays on...

Pros: Excellent story. Dared to take a chance. Compelling characters.
Cons: Not for everyone.

Cool Hand Luke has some problems. You may have noticed that people who like this movie call it a classic or a great movie or such, while people who don't like it really don't like it.

This mainly due to the fact that the movie uses some...

Pros: The message of non conformity, supporting actor, story
Cons: a lot of characters are left sketchy

"Bonnie and Clyde", "Midnight Cowboy", "The Graduate", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", in the latter portion of the 60's many classic films were made which presented the spirit of a rebelling, changing...

Pros: No chance of a sequel
Cons: There could be a prequel (I am your father Luke.)

This homage to film nowhere makes you long for the simple redneck brutality of Walking Tall. I'll give this to Newman, he tries to do the kind of film a Pacino, Brando, et al would. And would (or should I say wood?) he should, if he could, but a...

Pros: Excellent performances by a number of stars and a few stars-to-be
Cons: Gritty for it's day, newer grittier prison films have stolen some of it's edge.

That's what Luke says after a handful of 'nothing' won him a big pot in a poker game. And that's how he got the titular nickname.

Arguably one of the sweatiest movies ever made. Luke is a quiet troubled soul. He has anger and resentment for...

Pros: Overall great film
Cons: none

Cool Hand Luke is, by far, one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Paul Newman does a spectacular job of portraying the title character. In fact, all of the acting in the film was right on the money. The setting perfectly fits the mood of the movie...

Pros: A different look at life
Cons: George Kennedy is annoying

Convict, drunk, rebel, loser: there are several ways of looking at the main character in the movie “Cool Hank Luke” and one of them is through a religious prism. This is Paul Newman’s finest and most complex film, and while others may see...

Pros: Wonderful depth of conceptual thinking
Cons: Can be a little overbearing

"Sometimes nothing can be a pretty cool hand", is a phrase uttered by Paul Newman's character, Lucas Jackson, about a quarter of the way through this truly memorable depiction of the complete and total destruction of one solitary man by a...

Pros: Great Actors, Great Script
Cons: none!

...He's a natural born world shaker!'
That was George Kennedy's assessment of Paul Newman's character in 'Cool Hand Luke.' Kennedy won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role as Paul Newman's chain gang buddy, and deservedly so.
Newman was...

Pros: All-Star Cast , Timeless Performances
Cons: None

Though "Cool Hand Luke" drew its subtext and inspiration from 1960s anti-establishment feeling, its title character Lucas Jackson was no Flower Child.

At best, he's a lonely drifter without a cause or social conscience. At worst,...