Darabont has done it again

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2009)

this film is terrific. it hits you on all angles. it makes you happy, makes you laugh but the sadness is really powerful over everything. the film is also nice and lengthy so you can get sucked in by the story. i'm really annoyed that this masterpiece didn't win any awards, awards seem to repel Frank Darabont. he makes the Shawshank redemption which is at number 1 in the greatest films of all time but didn't receive an award. now he makes this timeless classic which i think is better than Shawshank but yet again no awards !!!!! at least it got 4 nominations, better than nothing.
the film is set in the 1930's if i remember correctly. its set around death row and the strange events that happened there. a man convicted of murdering 2 young girls is sentenced to death and is awaiting on death row. death row is named "the green mile" by the guards that run the place. the man who is convicted is named John Coffey, brilliantly played by Micheal Clarke Duncan that he should of won an Oscar for. the guards include Tom Hanks obviously, David Morse and Barry Pepper showing all that they can act amazingly. John Coffey is basically an innocent man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. he was in fact trying to save them by healing them because he has supernatural powers. the film is very heart felt and upsetting. it'll hit you in ways you've never felt.
Frank Darabont is a fantastic director and if he keeps this up he'll probably be crowned as the best director of our time........ 10/10........j.d Seaton