Completely different genre than "Green Mile"

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2002)

First thing I wanted to address was that although it does take place in a prison, this cannot be compared with such movies as "The Green Mile" or "Shawshank Redemption". Those two are completely fictitious stories, although they are entertaining. You wouldn't put "Stripes" or "In the Army Now" in the same basket with such films as "Full Metal Jacket" or "Shaving Ryan's Privates", would you? Oops, excuse me; I meant "Saving Private Ryan".
Anyway, excellent film. I don't see anything anti-English about it; it just Happened in England. Just like "Murder in the First" Happened in The States. Things like this happen in all sorts of places, so making a movie on them doesn't make it an Anti-(country of choice) film.
Kinda funny how a previous comment mentioned Pete Postlethwaite and Tommy Lee Jones in the same sentence; I spent half the time debating to myself whether the actor was Tommy or not (until I read the credits, of course). Sometimes they're spitting images of each other, sometimes they're not.
Anyway, very well done film and I look forward to reading the book sometime. Good soundtrack, too.