The Green Mile

Cast : Tom Hanks, Micheal Clarke Duncan

Director: Frank Daranbort

The Green Mile is actually directed by same person who directed perhaps greatest movie of generation,”The Shawsank Redemption” and obviously the expectations were sky high. I must say it wasn't as good or as classy as the shawshank but it was still very good movie. It was very good because it began as your average prison start that didn't exactly blow me off my seat but it the gradually became more and more interesting and eventually when the movie finished, it had power to move you and bring tears in your eyes.

The story is about an execution place where everything is normal until tall, mean looking, black man enters and the saying, don't judge a book by its cover, definitely occurs with this film when he touches everyone's heart and the workers there start to query the execution of the tall colored man.

The film is set in the great depression of 1930's Its set around death row and the strange events that happened there. A man convicted of murdering 2 young girls is sentenced to death and is awaiting on death row. The very Death row is named "the green mile" by the guards that run the place. The man who is convicted is named John Coffey, brilliantly played by Micheal Clarke Duncan that he should have won an Oscar for. The guards include Tom Hanks obviously, David Morse and Barry Pepper showing all that they can act amazingly. John Coffey is basically an innocent man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in fact trying to save them by healing them because he has supernatural powers. The film is very heartfelt and upsetting. It’ll hit you in ways you've never felt.

Besides the cast, the story is superb. It balances the real and supernatural so well, the supernatural seems to fit perfectly into this world. The movie also wisely does not explain the phenomena- sometimes there are things we just can't explain. I won't ruin exactly what happens, but I will say this: the movie was telling its story well before anything supernatural happened, but when it does happen it feels right, and you know you're dealing with a movie that has all the trappings of achieving greatness.

Everyone who sees this movie will never forget it. All the characters are memorable. Even down to the mouse! But John Coffey character is so good that it will be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest ever characters.

Absolutely recommended.

Rating :

* * * *