The Green Mile (1999) - Three Hours of Circus Mice, Electric Chairs, and Dry Sponges!

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2011)

Frank Darabont, the extraordinary director of the hit "Shawshank Redemption", comes back to the big screen with yet another adaptation of another prison drama novel by Stephen King. This time, the story is "The Green Mile", and this time he has the help of Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan joining a powerful cast that also includes Bonnie Hunt, Michael Jeter, and Sam Rockwell. The movie stars Hanks as Paul Edgecomb, an officer on death row, with a serious bladder infection, who rounds up a new suspect named John Coffey, portrayed by Michael Clarke Duncan, a man with mysterious immortality powers, that may have been accused for the raping and killing of two innocent girls. The movie follows as a dramatic and entertaining tale of hope, faith, and courage. Darabont brings back the lucky charm used in "Shawshank", but this time he combines real life with fantasy, and creates a story of miracles and dreams. Anyways, the film has powerful backgrounds, and the film focuses on the story with lots of drama and thrills, and the script is more well-written since Shawshank was well-written. The special effects are amazingly realistic, and the story is like a special charm from the heart. I really enjoyed this film, and it's fun to watch it again and again. You will enjoy it so much, you will start to wonder where the 3-hour running time has gone. "The Green Mile", in my review, "an exhilarating prison drama, truly watchable".