Good follow up to Shawshank

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2000)

This film is really good, despite it's length of about three hours and despite the fact that it is somehow unbelievable, for at the film's center there is a inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) who has supernatural powers. This is actually the basic of the story and one of the things why that Coffey is so memorable to Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks). But there is something else, for that Coffey character has got a character quite opposing his looks and this is something that was really memorable about him as well.

In this film there are so many good things that I'm afraid I will either forget too many things or that I will write about 3000 words (which is not allowed), so I'll try and keep it short. The actors are all great, from Hanks, to Duncan and Doug Hutchinson (who plays the perfect a..hole). The direction, the music, the script. EVERYTHING is good. OK I must admit, that I thought I'd see a different kind of movie (I didn't know about the supernatural stuff and I must say it is quite SUPERnatural (but who cares)). I sort of expected the same rationally explicable stuff as in the Shawshank Redemption. DAMN was I wrong. After you get used to the supernatural stuff though you get sucked into the story and the three hours feel like much much much less. One thing that helps the movie too, being entertaining, is that in the meantime there is enough other stuff going on and some good one - liners jokes are tossed around. My favorite part of the movie is of course the end of the narrative part of the film, for here no eye will be left dry and you will probably all have tears in your eyes, or even shed a few (like I did). I know my eyes were wet and my throat hurt like hell at the end. This is just one entertaining, funny, moving and original movie which is just as good as Darabont's Shawshank Redemption. GREAT JOB Y'ALL. GO SEE THIS FILM.

8 out of 10