Five Easy Pieces

Pros: Nicholson and Black and the riveting story. Perfect.
Cons: None

Ever sit down to watch a movie and have absolutely no idea what it is about because someone else has selected it? Knowing only that it was starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black, I had the pleasure of watching the incredibly moving and thought...

Pros: Everything.
Cons: Nothing.

Note: This review has been written for over a year. Since I left, it never got posted. Now, I'm posting it because I'm greedy.

No seriously, I think it deserves to be posted. I'll shut up now.

Through the years, Jack Nicholson has...

Pros: performances, script, direction
Cons: few

When Mike Nichols’ counter-cultural masterpiece The Graduate is screened with Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, what you get is a particularly insightful progression/portrait of a confused and listless generation suffering an extended...

Pros: direction, script, cast, soundtrack
Cons: not for kids

"Five Easy Pieces" was one of three films starring Jack Nicholson that were directed, co-written, and co-produced by Bob Rafelson (the other films were the weird Monkees flop "Head" and the more successful "The King of Marvin...

Pros: Part epic, part road picture, part character study
Cons: A little too much hippie malaise

Jack Nicholson was the poster boy of the angry, angst-ridden dramas of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Easy Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hell’s Angels on Wheels (you can tell I’m reaching) and Five Easy Pieces, generally hailed as one of the...

Pros: Wonderful, fantastic, brilliant, superb.
Cons: No cons only pros

I watched this film on a very dark night, I don't recommend you do the same. This is one hell of a nailbiter, a really good film. There is one really good scene set in a diner, Jack is ordering his breaky but the waitress won't help him, I won't spoil it but it's really good. It's a good craic this film, the start is breathtaking, the end is stonking and the middle is not too shabby either. Let's put it this way, I had a big smile on my face come the end, I felt like I'd watched a really good film. So in summery, get your tin of pop pop and a helping of ginger beer and prepare for a really good rollercoster of emotion and violence.