Amazing prison movie(contains some spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (13 August 2007)

Rated R for violence, language and some sex-related material. Quebec Rating:13+ Canadian Home Video Rating:14A
I have heard that the green mile was up there as one of the greatest prison movies.That and Shawshank redemption which I have not seen.I saw part of the film on TV and loved it.I wanted to watch the rest of the film so I rented it and watched it.I must say the green mile is a fantastic prison movie.It is based on the novel by Stephen King who is one of my favorite authors.I will read the novel very soon.The Green Mile has pretty much anything you would want in a prison film.Its a very powerful drama with a few funny scenes.The film starts off with an old Paul Edgecombe in a retirement home.After watching the film "Top Hat" he tells his friend about how he used to be a prison guard in the year 1935.The film is called "The Green Mile" because the floor is green.This prison floor has the prisoners who are to be sentenced to death by electric chair.One of the prisoners is John Coffey, a gentile giant who is afraid of the dark.He is convicted of raping and murdering two little girls.The beginning of the film does not show much of John as it does the life in the prison.It shows the prison guards and some of the prisoners on death row.There is also a mouse named Mr.Jingles who befriends a prisoner named Delacroix.We also see a new crazy prisoner named "Wild Bill" who messes around with the guards.He is the comic relief of the film.Later in the film we see John's gift of healing.He first heals Paul's urinary infection.There is a sadistic guard named Percy who'se aunt is the wife of the governor of the state.This enables him to pretty much do what he wants.He is very mean spirited as he sabotages Delacroix's execution and makes him suffer greatly.But before he does that he also kills Mr.Jingles.John, however brings him back to life.After the guards know about John's healing powers, they decide to take him out of jail to visit this woman who is dying of cancer.When he sees the guards take John out, Wild Bill grabs him.While he does this,John sees that he is in fact the killer of the two little girls, the crime for which he was convicted for.After John heals the woman and they go back to the prison, John infects Percy with the disease that he took out of the woman.This makes Percy shoot and kill "Wild Bill".After, the disease comes out of Percy but this makes him crazy and he gets sent to the mental institution, ironically it is the place where he was offered a job.When Paul wonders why John would do this, John takes his hand and shows Paul how "Wild Bill" killed the two girls.This proves his innocence however John wants to die because he does not want to live in a world with all the bad things that go on in it.John ends up getting killed in the electric chair while the guards are all crying.The film then goes back to the present where we find out Paul is 108 years old and him and Mr.Jingles are still alive.However Paul thinks that god is punishing him for not stopping John's execution by making him outlive his friends and family.The Green Mile is an amazing prison film with excellent performances.This film simply has Michael Clarke Duncan's best performance.The acting is all around great.The Green Mile is one of the greatest prison movies of all time and one of the greatest film of 1999.