2 hours well spent!

Rating: 9/10 (29 December 2009)

I'd been watching a lot of shallow movies of late, the depths being American Pie present: The Book of Love, which put me off Hollywood movies for a bit.
However, I remembered this movie garnering a lot of critical acclaim and winning an Oscar, so I watched it and, I have to say, it was the best movie I'd seen in quite some time.
In a nutshell, the movie's about how a rural girl comes and experiences basically everything a person could possibly experience in their life.
That line, however, does not do justice to what a good movie it is.
Morgan Freeman's narration is really good, but Hillary Swank's acting is absolutely what you'd expect of an innocent girl who hasn't been through the evils of life. Clint Eastwood does enough to convince me to somehow get all his other movies and watch them.
However, the ending could've been a bit better, which is the reason for the missing star. To give you a modern-day example, you could compare the ending to Law-Abiding Citizen.
However, don't let this put you off the movie as the preceding 1 hours and 40 minutes are absolutely top class, covering up, to a large extent, for the ending.