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.