Not as great as the book, but still worth checking out.

Rating: 6/10 (31 July 2000)

While the Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" translated into one of the greatest films of all time, "The Green Mile" (while a marvelous book and a pioneer in the art of story telling), fails to achieve the level of intensity and magnificence of the book. A prison guard stationed on Death Row meets an inmate who is not only innocent, but a "pure" child of God; a miracle worker. The movie revolves around the relationship between the guard, Tom Hanks, and the inmate, dramatic-newcomer Michael Clark Duncan. Both of these actors do a fantastic job, while the supporting cast only improves the aura of greatness. So where does the grief lie? The movie moves slugishly, so bad that people forget why they are even WATCHING certain scenes. While intense and moments, the majority of the Green Mile is somewhat boring, and while boring-ness is not alone bad, combined with a bad translation from the book to the movie...it can be deadly.