A waste of an opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (4 March 2008)

The first 40 minutes of this film promised so much; great acting, great sets fantastically shot and lit. An execution scene full of drama and pathos; all pointed to a tense anti-capital punishment death-row drama of high quality. Then the first of the miracles occurs as John Coffey performs a "laying on of hands" cure on Paul Edgecomb. Later he brings a mouse to life with the "evil" spewing from his mouth! It is almost comic.
The comedy "miracles" get sillier and the film drags on and on until it finally reaches its nadir with the shot of John Coffey in the cinema with the projector light behind him like the aura in a medieval depiction of Christ  oh please - treat me as a grown up. What a waste of a great opportunity. Could it be re-edited with the daftness taken out? It should have been brilliant.