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User Reviews for: The Green Mile

qvex
CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  5 years ago
Finally, I saw it in full length - before I saw just parts of it. And that's the biggest problem with this movie, the length.

It starts with the script, which tells everything and everything three times - e.g. we see who is the true murder, but there is a conversation which tells us this again. And it goes to the pace of the acting, everything is told slowly. The actors speaking like bubble gum. I like to have an editors cut, thightened it up. This story is just not a 3 hour story, it is not the godfather! I assume that Stephen King had a big involvement in it, which doesn't help a movie in my experience. (One of the best "Stephen King movies" - The Shining - had no involvement whatsoever and when he did his version it was a big failure.)

The acting was good. Especially, Rockwell and Hutchinson were great. Unfortunately, Duncan's role as Coffey consisted of 90% crying. Which is a failure by the director and screenwriter using the most boring and easiest way to tell.

The movie was not able to get me emotionally involved - only Hutchinson's role got me - everything and everyone else I didn't care. After 3 hours I was exhausted and happy the movie was over. (And again, the movie ended but it was not over, it goes back to the current time and tells another story and someone else has to die, and the mouse has to reappear - what a boring mess.)
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KayP97
9/10  2 years ago
The lives of the guards on death rows cell block are about to change, particularly the leader on block Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) when John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) is bought in for the rape and murder of two little girls. Something magical is about to transpire, but they don’t know that yet.

I have been a Stephen King fan for a while now, I own a lot of this books. By far my favourite of his and perhaps my favourite book of all time is The Green Mile. Frank Darabont has bought this book to life for me, and I thank him for that. Even though I knew what was going to happen, I couldn’t help but feel for all the characters. The atmosphere Frank managed to capture is astonishing, it is very haunting, and you could really feel this is where those characters will spend their last few days in.

The performances were all very strong. Hanks was brilliant as the warden leader, but the actor that deserves the most praise is Michael Clarke Duncan. He absolutely smashes it in this movie. As you watch this movie and wonder if he did kill those two little girls, he is written and acted so well, you really felt sorry for him which is extremely hard to pull off. I just wanted someone to give John a hug in this movie and tell him everything will be alright. Some of the other death row inmates including Eduard Delacroix and his pet mouse, and William “Wild Bill” Wharton who is psychotic. Wharton was a character you immediately disliked but Sam Rockwell gives a great performance.

The executions scenes were so well done, you could feel their pain. Theirs one execution scene which I won’t spoil that really got to me and I could not believe I Just watched it. A lot of people do have issues with the length of this film, which is just over 3 hours long. I do have to agree it was overlong and could have been cut shorter.

Definitely one of my all time favourite films that has left an impact on me still to this day. 9/10.
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