Green Mile all the way

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2004)

While I was a bit skeptic about seeing this movie (having never read the book and heard a variety of different comments about how good it was) I was quite surprised at how fast the movie went. I can usually tell how much I enjoyed a movie by how much I chew my nails and it shocked my that I had not once bitten my nails. I found it to be a deeply emotional movie but on the other hand I found the recurrence of how "Coffey" is spelled to become a bit tedious. However I believe Tom Hanks' performance to be one of his best (excluding 'Saving Private Ryan'). During this movie I hated the character of the young bloke who wanted to work at the mental hospital, but that was the point. As the audience we were meant to hate the guy because he was such a spoilt prick who obviously always got his own way. I liked it very much, very very much.