one very long mile

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2002)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS
The Green Mile happens to be the only movie I have ever walked out on in protest. I walked out after what seemed to be ten -- or perhaps fifteen -- minutes of watching Darabont's loving recreation of a botched execution. Now THAT'S entertainment, Frank!
Last Sunday, years later, I got to tune in and pick up where I'd left off, and having seen the whole movie, I think that mid-movie execution scene to be even more misconceived, in what is an otherwise entertaining movie.
SPOILERS APPROACHING
There is too much implausibility here though, even for a fantasy flick: the ease with which they smuggle Coffey out, for one thing, the general saintliness of one and all, for another, the fact that they can show Coffey a 'flickershow' inside the prison, without notice or preparation, as soon as he asks to see one, and so on and on.
The end is worth waiting for, but the final line is a little ironic after 3 hours plus: "the green mile can be awfully long". Indeed.