The Green Light

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2003)

Yesterday, I saw 'The Green Mile'. I actually expected quite a bit from it, based on comments and its rating on IMDB. But disappointment hit me early, and it was a direct blow that knocked me down and out.
Prisons are fun, aren't they? Well, in this film they sure are. Chasing a mouse and stuff. And, oh yeah, most inmates waiting for the electrical chair are actually kind, nice, sometimes even philosophical people. THEY are the victims. Not the relatives of the people they murdered. Those inmates are in there for murder for crying out loud. But they act as if they can't even put their own pants on. And this Percy character, he is really 'bad'. But he's the most 'real' person in the entire film---a film which is basically as ridiculous as Tom Hanks playing a SERIOUS role. Tom Hanks IS Forrest Gump, or the main character in "Big", both essentially being large kids. Picturing Hanks as a warden is as silly as claiming that James Bond is a monogamist.

After having fast-forwarded the second half of the movie, I'm trying to figure out whether it was intended to be a comedy or a drama. Essentially, it's neither.
"I'm tired boss", well, I'm tired of this film, which I give a green light. A green light to take the 3-lane highway, right into the trash-bin.
And, please, let someone please get rid of that stupid mouse!
Rating from the Dutch judge: 3 (out of 10).