A sincere and honest film.

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2001)

Would it be unfair of me to think of "The Green Mile" as the film that brought back the issue of capital punishment?
Yes, that I would admit, but the film itself is one that can provoke plenty of thoughts.
The film was written and directed by Frank Darabont, who is best known for adapting one of the short stories from Stephen King's "Different Seasons", "The Shawnshank Redemption".
The story involves an elderly man, Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) who recalls one year while he (Tom Hanks) was in charge of the Death Row "E" block at a prison in Louisana during the Great Depression and met John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a tall prisoner who changed Edgecomb's life.
If there's one part of the film that left me unsatisfied and that would be the film's length. In this case, the movie is nearly three hours. Despite that, some of the executions are difficult to handle and in one particular scene, one of the prisoners is burned to a crisp.
However, the film has a great cast and is certainly well acted, most notably Hanks and Duncan, who is great to watch and listen.