Great and touching

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2000)

The Green Mile has to be one of my favorite movies of '99. The story: Tom Hanks plays a security guard who encounters John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan), a man wrongly accused of murder and who later reveals that he has the power to heal people. Michael Clarke Duncan is awesome as John Coffey, a giant of a man who is gentle and child-like. He has to be my favorite character out of this movie. Tom Hanks and all the other guards and prisoners of the Green Mile, the name given to the death row because of the lime-green floor, are also very good characters. Pursey, a weaseley guard with a bad attitude, is one of those characters that you just love to hate. There are many other likeable characters in this movie, including a mouse which a prisoner names "Mr. Jingles". This movie has some lighthearted funny moments in it. For instance, in the night the guards try to find a mouse that has been poking around the prison. (Mr. Jingles) "Three grown men, outsmarted by a mouse!" It is also very touching in parts, specifically towards the end. If you get the chance, see this movie. In my opinion it's one of the best movies of 1999. Michael Clarke Duncan should of won an Accademy Award. Oh, well.