The second best film of the year.

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2000)

I have read and heard a lot of comments about this movie. Now most were good reviews and a very select few were bad. Now of course everyone is entitled to there opinion, but there was one comment about the characters being black and white (all good or all bad). They saw this as a bad thing, but I think that they missed the point of the film.
Yes the bad guys were all bad, but that was so that you could understand even better what John Coffey felt and the horrors that he endured by being able to feel this evil. And of course there is Tom Hanks character who is the embodiment of integrity. Now if you have seen the movie you know about the things that he has to do. This shows in a most painful way the things that good people have to do sometimes just to make it through the world or try and do a kindness. It is heartbreaking.
It struck me on a personal level because it just seemed so human even in its most horrible moments. By the time the movie was over I had wept twice, the first time in ten years. It is a beautiful film that I can only hope gets nominated for best picture, along with Micheal Jeter and Micheal Duncan both for best supporting actor, they were brilliant.